Day: February 27, 2023

Black Girl’s Window by Betye Saar

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Black Girl’s Window by Betye Saar

Black Girl’s Window
1969
Identity Politics
Mixed media assemblage (Wooden window frame with paint, cut-and-pasted printed and painted papers, daguerreotype, lenticular print, and plastic figurine)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

“Black Girl’s Window” is composed of a repurposed, weathered wooden window frame. Saar painted a silhouette black girl with her hands and face against the window looking out. Her eyes are two lens-like shapes cut from material that creates the illusion of blinking as the viewer changes position. This piece marked Saar’s shift in artistic focus from printmaking to collage and assemblage. It is also a response to David Hammons “Black Boy’s Window” (1968)

Betye Saar

Betye Saar
Feminist Art, Identity Art and Identity Politics, Assemblage, Collage
Born: 30 July 1926, California, USA
Nationality: African-American

Saar is an artist best known for her work in the medium of assemblage. She is also a visual storyteller and printmaker. In the 1970s Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement which engaged with myths and stereotypes about race and gender. Her work is highly political and challenges the negative ideas about African Americans

Assassin

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Assassin
Form: Glosa

This tyrant may deserve a harsher end
as payment for his crimes, but
in this moment, the assassin
will love him none the less – Byron

Visitations brought by Karma
Are our destiny, our fate
Rewards for our deeds lavished
In the certainty it is what we have earned
It is not death that we have deserved
For we all must meet that demise
What comes after is the recompense
Too late to seek grace when dying, then
The time is up and what has been done is done
And how many will say
This tyrant may deserve a harsher end
Human judgement is mortal
And human punishments die with the judged
For the punished will face their crimes
With the joy of spirit denied by their living
And that is for destiny to decide
When the assassin, Fate, brings the souls
To be judged and found wanting
In death no penance can be made
And the tyrant has nothing to offer
as payment for his crimes, but
he will try screaming from his knees
empty promises as in life
passions and lust dispersed in offerings
but no sacrifice is left to be made
like all other bills it must be paid
not with money, power, or treasures
the eyes of destiny have no room for that
as they look away it is access denied
and Fate seals the deal
in this moment, the assassin
The end of the tyrant is nigh
for nothing will remain of his soul
a soul sold for riches and command
as he stood against sweet destiny’s truth
and he prays her blade will be swift
as Fate looks him up and down
one last time her eyes are cold
her heart drizzled by ice
yet in this moment of his spiritual death she
will love him none the less

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Cello Concerto No. 9 by Luigi Boccherini

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Cello Concerto No. 9
1760
Romantic

Luigi Boccherini
Classical
Born: 19 February 1743, Lucca, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Died: 28 May 1805, Madrid, Spain

Luigi Boccherini 1743-1805

Boccherini was a composer and cellist of the Classical era. Even though he matured apart from the major European musical centres his music retained a courtly and galante style. He is best known for a minuet from his String Quartet No.5 in E and the Cello Concerto in B flat major. Boccherini’s oeuvre also includes several guitar quintets

Crystals – Sodalite

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Sodalite is a group of minerals rarely seen in crystal form. It is predominantly blue but can also be found in red, white, yellow, and green. Sodalite is associated with the Third Eye and Throat Chakras. It is the stone of understanding.

Sodalite

Sodalite is associated with insight and mental enhancement and its vibrations can unlock intuition. Expanding mental energies allows us to tackle the mental hurdles that we struggle with in daily life. Sodalite enhances mental capabilities allowing the natural contradictions of the mind to slowly weaken as it delves into our subconscious, making us evaluate ourselves and highlighting our personal strengths and weaknesses.

Sodalite helps to develop the intuition with the stone’s vibrations aid the visualizing of truth and the ability to understand the self. It enables a calm and reflective state that aids in pulling out the negativity held within.

Sodalite works with the Throat Chakra, a key ley line within the body. It assists in the expansion of the communicative centre to enable the vocalization of internal thoughts. It is often a challenge to understand others, but understanding ourselves can seem even more challenging. Sodalite links the Third Eye and Throat Chakras enabling us to understand our thoughts better and communicate them correctly.

In love and light
Raven )O(

Hidden in Secrets

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A Garret Poet

Hidden in Secrets
Form: Loose Sapphics

Feel the scourge of pain as it cleanses darkness
kiss ordeals that test your belief as pathways
lit by love of truth in these ways of wisdom
hidden in secrets.

Look inside the plumes of incense that rise up
breathe in spirits, ancient and wise to fill you
let your soul embrace the intent within age
dance with the old ones.

Merry meet the element flames to warm you
watch the dancers swirl in the fire’s last embers
feed the will with heat and desire all knowledge
pray with the heart’s beat.

Seek all needs in watery pools of living
act with grace in service of Lady, divine
search the heart for answers and find honesty
reach for the moonlight.

Tread the Earth with kindness in lightest footsteps
trust in her, the giver of life, our Mother
work in ways of love’s understanding purpose

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