You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
To live, according to this sense of the word, we must not only observe and learn, we must also feel; we must not be mere spectators of action, we must act; we must not describe, but be subjects of description.
There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others. — Mary Shelley via BP.
ARTISTS FOR HAITI : RELIEF AND LOVE TO OUR HAITIAN FAMILY
We, Christopher Udemezue and Carolyn Lazard of RAGGA NYC, are raising funds for LGBTQ+ Haitians who have been affected by the August 14th earthquake.
Through crowdsourcing our extended communities and offering a print sale from RAGGA NYC’s chosen family of Caribbean diaspora artists, we aim to raise $10,000 for KOURAJ, an LGBTQ+ Haitian organization providing hygiene and food kits to the 1200+ LGBTQ+ Haitians affected by the earthquake.
RAGGA NYC, a platform and network for queer Caribbean artists, has set up a GoFundMe campaign and is offering prints to the first 30 people who donate over $200, the amount needed to fund a hygiene and food kit from KOURAJ for each of Haiti’s 1200+ LGBTQ+ people who have been displaced by the August 15th earthquake.
Gofundme!!!!!!
Untitled (Gathered in the fold — for plenitude and a regimen fortifying courage)
Allons! […] We convince by our presence.
To break apart or alter so as to prevent normal or expected functioning — disrupt — also, throw into disorder; change the arrangement or position of — derange (From French déranger, from Old French desrengier (“throw into disorder”), from des- + rengier (“to put into line”), from reng (“line, row”), from a Germanic source. – wordnik).
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 – 1717) was a Naturalist, an Entomologist and a Botanical Illustrator and is rated as being one of the greatest ever botanical artists.? She is best known for her illustrations of plants and insects made as a result of her trips to the tropical country of Suriname on the north eastern cost of South America. via
The National Museum of Women in the Arts.
The History of Abortifacients. … in her 1705 book Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam, recounts:
The Indians, who are not treated well by their Dutch masters, use the seeds [of peacock flower (or flos pavonis)] to abort their children, so that their children will not become slaves like they are. The black slaves from Guinea and Angola have demanded to be well treated, threatening to refuse to have children. They told me this themselves.
Quote is also cited here – https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Workshop%20II%20papers/L.%20Schiebinger.doc.pdf
Related : Garden of Virtues.
And all that’s best of dark and bright/
Meet in her aspect and her eyes
… art, as an instrument of aliveness.
Zora Neale Hurston said, “Like the dead-seeming cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me.” These “memories within” are the subsoil of my work. But memories and recollections won’t give me total access to the unwritten interior life of these people. Only the act of the imagination can help me.
The Site of Memory, Toni Morrison
