1. (How everything feels) like
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2. (How much intention do you have to find hopeful or at least cheerful meaning in the collective? (Humanity, changeability).- Look again and maybe again (and maybe again).. to test the level, the condition of your imagination)
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#pencilsagainstfascism #pencildrawing
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yumi_kirschenbaum she/her
random person who finds joy in writing and drawing and learning
here's to pencil, paper and poetry ·͜·♡
(Dear Mr. Zrckbrg, I hope this finds you in a strong, fear- and tearless, the manliest of all manly states of minds) ⋆ ✧･ﾟ: *✧
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#pencildrawing
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(What resistance might look like)
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#pencildrawing
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(What it might look like for women, in particular, and how to find support in the reproduction of the male gaze, in performing, reenacting its objectified gestures, so that to counteract it with visible signs of resistance)
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#pencildrawing
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(What it might look like for women, in particular, and how to find support in the reproduction of the male gaze, in performing, reenacting its objectified gestures, so that to counteract it with visible signs of resistance)
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(This is about normativity, too. About norm, first and foremost, allegedly residing in resumés, life events, expected, supposed predictability)
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(Normativity as vulnerabilities prerequisite and about how fast we (might) pass as "normal" when reversely seen: as vulnerable beings, ip to time)
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(Normativity as vulnerabilities prerequisite and about how fast we (might) pass as "normal" when reversely seen: as vulnerable beings, ip to time)
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#pencildrawing
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as well as the accusation of its spreading, might be that a connection is cut in oneself, too, when labeled as a stranger (to their own perception) eventually becoming a stranger to themselves)
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👇🏻 (comments below)
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(Quite unsure whether it's just fake news doing this to our perception or if 2 eyes, if eyes at all, are enough to count for getting a larger picture or to call it a perception even)
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#pencildrawing
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(Aren't there also desires for belonging embedded in some kinds of perceptions, which sometimes outvoted the content? Which might be stronger and more persistent than one’s own insight or understanding)
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(What's the weight or value of psychological dimensions, group dynamics, in all those discussions on ongoing wars, areas, where ppl seem to lose, but even more so find stronger, more perceptible connections, again, which sometimes might feel like the much needed revolution, but that has lost its means or place to go)
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(Maybe it is longing that creates focus, be it on historical details or groups of ppl., and focus, that creates those areas we are discussing, fighting in and about, and which oftentimes is conflated with expertise, lightheartedly)
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(I really don't want to say that having expertise is always necessary for an opinion, nor that it leads to humanity or compassion, unfortunately, this is what it usually does precisely not. But as for me observing western discussions means to be confronted with glaring (sometimes luxuriously employed and petrified performed) differences in levels of experience and knowledge, which might not always be expertise, but also not fake news)
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(I don't think that accusations of spreading fake news (in this very context) leads to an approximate alignment of knowledge or the willingness to open one's own perception to new information or to engage with other points of view. And most of us will have to admit at some point that we are lacking something somewhere, I guess?)
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(I am also undecided whether those trials of enrichment with knowledge or (providing of) information is always that well placed in a teacher-student or media-recipient constellation. Also, because one of the greatest risks of misinformation, as well as the..
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#pencildrawing
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(Aren't there also desires for belonging embedded in some kinds of perceptions, which sometimes outvoted the content? Which might be stronger and more persistent than one’s own insight or understanding)
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(What's the weight or value of psychological dimensions, group dynamics, in all those discussions on ongoing wars, areas, where ppl seem to lose, but even more so find stronger, more perceptible connections, again, which sometimes might feel like the much needed revolution, but that has lost its means or place to go)
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(Maybe it is longing that creates focus, be it on historical details or groups of ppl., and focus, that creates those areas we are discussing, fighting in and about, and which oftentimes is conflated with expertise, lightheartedly)
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(I really don't want to say that having expertise is always necessary for an opinion, nor that it leads to humanity or compassion, unfortunately, this is what it usually does precisely not. But as for me observing western discussions means to be confronted with glaring (sometimes luxuriously employed and petrified performed) differences in levels of experience and knowledge, which might not always be expertise, but also not fake news)
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(I don't think that accusations of spreading fake news (in this very context) leads to an approximate alignment of knowledge or the willingness to open one's own perception to new information or to engage with other points of view. And most of us will have to admit at some point that we are lacking something somewhere, I guess?)
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(I am also undecided whether those trials of enrichment with knowledge or (providing of) information is always that well placed in a teacher-student or media-recipient constellation. Also, because one of the greatest risks of misinformation, as well as the..
(Are there any images that you firmly associate with grief?)
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(Or is it not images but sounds for you, that come with grieving)
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(Or a smell, rather, a taste, a color. A posture?
And their very absences)
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#pencildrawing
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(Maybe it’s a little bit of everything, an alternate flow, also between the entering of emotions and logic.
Maybe it comes in an order at times, images and sounds at first, as it is for me, both together, simultaneously, followed by a scent, followed by a taste, followed by a..)
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(I often think that it’s not that easy to notice grieving though. Inside oneself as well as in others. Also, when you are no longer grieving, this too can be an insight, tricky to access.
If "no longer" even exists, if grief ever ends at all, which is maybe precisely what makes of grief grieving)
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(It’s norms and conventions, effecting this, I guess, the blurred, the difficulty to get to your grounds, the not knowing exactly)
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(How is someone supposed to recognize that or what they are grieving, if they are denied experience. The expression of a need before they have had the chance to articulate and acknowledge it as a need to themselves)
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(Take a kid growing up in war, who just wants to have a "normal" life.-
Take a kid, read as a boy, who likes to wear dresses.- Whatsoever, it's the dependence on concessions of others that block accessibilities to full awareness, sometimes)
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(It’s not just loss of something or someone, I feel, making one grieve, but also longing, which then means to mourn forward somehow)
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(That's why grief doesn't have to be tied to a past event that once (supposedly) triggered it. At least if one doesn’t want to perceive social norms, laws..as events)
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(Are they?)
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(In any case: as a feeling that is so strongly linked to inertia and passivity in people's minds, their associations, I think there is always an active and activating part in it, too.
Be it just a drop of grace set in motion to carry it with)
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(Or is it not images but sounds for you, that come with grieving)
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(Or a smell, rather, a taste, a color. A posture?
And their very absences)
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#pencildrawing
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(Maybe it’s a little bit of everything, an alternate flow, also between the entering of emotions and logic.
Maybe it comes in an order at times, images and sounds at first, as it is for me, both together, simultaneously, followed by a scent, followed by a taste, followed by a..)
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(I often think that it’s not that easy to notice grieving though. Inside oneself as well as in others. Also, when you are no longer grieving, this too can be an insight, tricky to access.
If "no longer" even exists, if grief ever ends at all, which is maybe precisely what makes of grief grieving)
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(It’s norms and conventions, effecting this, I guess, the blurred, the difficulty to get to your grounds, the not knowing exactly)
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(How is someone supposed to recognize that or what they are grieving, if they are denied experience. The expression of a need before they have had the chance to articulate and acknowledge it as a need to themselves)
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(Take a kid growing up in war, who just wants to have a "normal" life.-
Take a kid, read as a boy, who likes to wear dresses.- Whatsoever, it's the dependence on concessions of others that block accessibilities to full awareness, sometimes)
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(It’s not just loss of something or someone, I feel, making one grieve, but also longing, which then means to mourn forward somehow)
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(That's why grief doesn't have to be tied to a past event that once (supposedly) triggered it. At least if one doesn’t want to perceive social norms, laws..as events)
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(Are they?)
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(In any case: as a feeling that is so strongly linked to inertia and passivity in people's minds, their associations, I think there is always an active and activating part in it, too.
Be it just a drop of grace set in motion to carry it with)
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(Body postures of capitalism, body postures of human waste)
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#pencildrawing
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(I actually wanted to portray each bottle on just one slide at first, it's harmful to absurd power struggles, but it didn't translate that well or not in the way I intended it to.
Unfortunately, I have to admit, for this whole entire process of creating within tiny time slots can be quite frustrating, also in that it keeps one ruminating about and around it, wanting to try again and again in unsuitable places and spaces)
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(Ad portray: I am currently indeed working on a portrait which is a pretty time consuming experience for me, that with every step taken, though, reveals it's huge treasure of learning and expanding opportunity, also because it's a minefield (sorry.. but all the wars..) of failure (sorry.. but all the neoliberalism), for whatever that means)
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(Maybe it'd be better to say that it's a constant process of overstretching to the point that one's perception, one's spirit aches so badly that it shows you how to learn to rest, first and foremost, which also takes discipline, grit, meaning nothing other than keeping your senses together, the dynamic integrity of your inspiration and joy)
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(And maybe I should also add that once the aching is gone, it seems to be easier to realize the moment of when you are on the verge of becoming the very system - only one of so many other harmful systems currently in power - that you were just about to criticize. Way too close to becoming the protagonist of your own drawing, a grotesque bottle, a piece of plastic struggling with containing its own absurdity, which is the absurdity of it all)
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#pencildrawing
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(I actually wanted to portray each bottle on just one slide at first, it's harmful to absurd power struggles, but it didn't translate that well or not in the way I intended it to.
Unfortunately, I have to admit, for this whole entire process of creating within tiny time slots can be quite frustrating, also in that it keeps one ruminating about and around it, wanting to try again and again in unsuitable places and spaces)
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(Ad portray: I am currently indeed working on a portrait which is a pretty time consuming experience for me, that with every step taken, though, reveals it's huge treasure of learning and expanding opportunity, also because it's a minefield (sorry.. but all the wars..) of failure (sorry.. but all the neoliberalism), for whatever that means)
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(Maybe it'd be better to say that it's a constant process of overstretching to the point that one's perception, one's spirit aches so badly that it shows you how to learn to rest, first and foremost, which also takes discipline, grit, meaning nothing other than keeping your senses together, the dynamic integrity of your inspiration and joy)
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(And maybe I should also add that once the aching is gone, it seems to be easier to realize the moment of when you are on the verge of becoming the very system - only one of so many other harmful systems currently in power - that you were just about to criticize. Way too close to becoming the protagonist of your own drawing, a grotesque bottle, a piece of plastic struggling with containing its own absurdity, which is the absurdity of it all)
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(Have you ever been trying to find refuge in a season?)
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(When the air slightly begins to change its weight and smell into some kind of yellow September-ish-ness, one might want to try to find refuge in autumn, hiding from November, in the middle of August)
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#seasons #transitions #change
#pencildrawing #atfirst added #charcoal afterwards
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(Thought about adding a few findings on drawing here, but then again: who would be able to do anything with a few loose sentences that emerged in the process of drawing.
On the other hand: wouldn't this precisely be the very reason for posting it despite?
Still considering)
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(So much for that: I actually draw in order to learn more about writing, which means more than just finding words to me. I'm of course by no means a drawing professional, I am just trying and recognizing and that's maybe also why I keep revolving around some body parts for now. It’s an exercise, too, I'm posting an exercise, a practice, within a tangible search of humanity)
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(Oh and: I struggle a lot, I curse a lot while drawing, but I sing it, sing every curse along the way.
When I draw everything starts to sing anyhow, so why not join the orchestra.
As if I was a part of an ensemble, I hope, constantly drowned out)
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Edit, 15.8.: Sentences, findings on drawing
* the intention is in the shading, viel zu nah am motiv
* there can be meaning in strong contrasts, too
* a line is never just a line, sondern
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* von außen nach innen zeichnen, wo außen ist bestimmen nicht die ränder
* weiß ist immer grau und
* großes immer leichter
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(When the air slightly begins to change its weight and smell into some kind of yellow September-ish-ness, one might want to try to find refuge in autumn, hiding from November, in the middle of August)
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#seasons #transitions #change
#pencildrawing #atfirst added #charcoal afterwards
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(Thought about adding a few findings on drawing here, but then again: who would be able to do anything with a few loose sentences that emerged in the process of drawing.
On the other hand: wouldn't this precisely be the very reason for posting it despite?
Still considering)
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(So much for that: I actually draw in order to learn more about writing, which means more than just finding words to me. I'm of course by no means a drawing professional, I am just trying and recognizing and that's maybe also why I keep revolving around some body parts for now. It’s an exercise, too, I'm posting an exercise, a practice, within a tangible search of humanity)
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(Oh and: I struggle a lot, I curse a lot while drawing, but I sing it, sing every curse along the way.
When I draw everything starts to sing anyhow, so why not join the orchestra.
As if I was a part of an ensemble, I hope, constantly drowned out)
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❤️
Edit, 15.8.: Sentences, findings on drawing
* the intention is in the shading, viel zu nah am motiv
* there can be meaning in strong contrasts, too
* a line is never just a line, sondern
* sondern.
* von außen nach innen zeichnen, wo außen ist bestimmen nicht die ränder
* weiß ist immer grau und
* großes immer leichter
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(Trees make this human world easier to understand because their branches were meant to be complicated)
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(Trees are analysts, to be precise, they recognize through misty surface, their pounding purpose, non belated hearts)
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#pencildrawing #climate #war
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(Trees make this human world easier to understand because their branches were meant to be complicated)
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(Trees are analysts, to be precise, they recognize through misty surface, their pounding purpose, non belated hearts)
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#pencildrawing #climate #war
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(On solace and prophecy)
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#uspresidentialelectionresults #pencildrawing #drawnonnov6th
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(Will add the rest of the caption eventually)
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#uspresidentialelectionresults #pencildrawing #drawnonnov6th
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(Will add the rest of the caption eventually)
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(I was wondering about how political ignorance can be embodied, if at all, and where it sits, in that case, possibly, in a human)
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(Maybe it's on the eyelid, among other parts, something, somewhere that pretends to just be an outer piece of skin, barely body even, a tiny curtain in between)
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#pencildrawing #war #fascism
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(Also, I 've asked myself whether political ignorance has become part of a program or of a political promise to voters, or rather is in the process of becoming more so, and whether and how it might be connected to obedience and power)
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(Maybe it's on the eyelid, among other parts, something, somewhere that pretends to just be an outer piece of skin, barely body even, a tiny curtain in between)
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#pencildrawing #war #fascism
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(Also, I 've asked myself whether political ignorance has become part of a program or of a political promise to voters, or rather is in the process of becoming more so, and whether and how it might be connected to obedience and power)
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