International Women’s Day
This is a collage I made for our International Women’s Day post over at The New Agenda:
I had fun putting it together. Playing with pictures is soothing when you’re too tired to write.
9 Responses to “International Women’s Day”
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Stray Yellar Dawg says:
Beautiful!
I especially like that big, pregnant belly!!
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TheOtherDelphyne says:
This is a beautiful collage, Violet. I love making collages – they’re so therapeutic and tell you more about yourself than some of your own words can.
We should do a feminist art project similar to the Post Secret post card project – a friend of mine went to see the exhibit in California and told me about it today. The site is http://www.postsecret.com. Some very poignant secrets people have shared anonymously.
Happy International Women’s Day to you and all women, everywhere!
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princess wears prada says:
love it!
happy int’l women’s day…posted u at http://www.justsaynodeal.com
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Sis says:
Beautiful to look at too. Love the way the green top left catches your eye, and then the red moves you down and around to more green.
Can I put in a request for a collage of Molly?
Dog deprived.
The main reason to own your own home. So you can have a dog. Women need dogs. The home? You just have to have the home to house one.
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orlando says:
This is so soothing to look at, somehow. Loving that I’m seeing an Australian aboriginal woman right in the middle. Thank you for making it.
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Violet says:
Thank you for appreciating it. It did end up being pretty upbeat, though I hope not saccharine. There are women in burqas, very poor women, hardworking women. But nobody’s sobbing or being beaten or obviously in pain. And though I collected all kinds of pictures of women doing all kinds of things (from sports to political protests), the collage I ended up with is fairly peaceful; kind of a dignified feel. Once I’d selected the group of photos to draw from, I just chose and arranged ones that gave the rhythm and color and feel I liked. (Though I did make sure to get women from all the continents.)
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Celeste says:
The pregnant belly is what caught my attention first, but the entire collage is amazingly beautiful and does a great job of capturing women of different cultures. Great job! :)
Also, to TheOtherDelphyne, have you checked out Antigone Magazine. Its kinda like PostSecret (which I love) but their version is entitled “Dreams for Women” and sounds like something you’d be interested in!
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Katherine B. says:
It would be nice, however, if women weren’t ALWAYS identified with their reproductive functions. Let’s hear it for the women on the earth who are happily childfree and who are thoughtfully not contributing to the overpopulation of the planet.
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Violet says:
If the collage were nothing but pictures of women with babies, that would be ridiculous, of course. But it’s just a snapshot of everyday female human life on planet earth. Surely it would be bizarre to entirely omit the fact that women do bear children.
