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Viva's Hands.
G.
Two hands with their backs facing up, reaching upwards, ready to seize life . This is a black and white hand portrait drawing in charcoal on paper . Permission graciously ceded from an original photo 

[ Prints : james-mccormack.pixels.com/fea ]

#vivashands #viva #hands #blackandwhite #portrait #hands #exoerience #touch #emotion
#texture #line #monochrome #draw #realistic #buyintoart #FediGiftShop #MastoArt

"Would I be who I am without the sadness in me?"
I just sang this out loud and laughed because I suddenly saw myself. And if that's not making peace with who you are what is?
(I'm now laughing and crying simultaneously. But don't worry, this is a good thing.)
youtube.com/watch?v=0LfwlUvpVJ
#Bastille #music #lyrics #mentalhealth #depression #emotions #emotion #Vonnegut #KurtVonnegut

Pre Orders for 1001 Accurate Memories Now Open

From traumatic memory culture to learning with bodies

alexhead.com/bookstore

In 1001 Accurate Memories Berlin artist Alex Head presents patterns of self-repair amongst the ruins of ideas, relationships and human bodies. The author travels across space and time attempting to gain insights into class, disability and trauma through drawing, writing and photography. His investigation into traumatic memory tempts the author to suggest a shift from Germany’s professed ‘memory culture’ to a ‘traumatic memory culture’, in that traumatic memory is greatly more accurate. 

Consequently, 1001 Accurate Memories seeks to locate the reader back within their own skin by highlighting our differentiated but ultimately shared anatomy. 

Birthed from a seven year odyssey into blood, guts and tears, the work proposes that sensations in the body begin wider processes of understanding. By identifying the value of listening to the body in this way, the interpretative role of the human brain becomes more apparent. From this insight stems the ability to see trauma, memory and political propaganda as forms of easily manipulated emotional information. This leads Head to conclude that the primary way to counter such manipulation is the spiritual, physical and mental self-determination of the human body.

There are no special giveaways for pre ordering. The goal is to increase the print run from 100 to 150/200 copies. Each sale creates proportionally more and more copies!

Released first on #Mastodon

Dispatched April-May.

#books #publishing #memory #memoryculture #errinerungskultur #memorypolitics #trauma #artist #art #drawing #photography #newyork #glasgow #plovdiv #london #jakarta #berlin #florence #fedifirst #fedi #somatic #bodies #self #determination #selfdetermination
#human #emotion

Stan Greenberg was Bill Clinton's pollster and a good one at that. His comments to Canadian pollster Frank Graves are worth repeating.
Too many people, especially on the left, have a bizarrely elevated view of how voters make choices.
If you actually want to win, listen to Mr. Greenberg.

#StanleyGreenberg #FrankGraves #polling #WinningElections #Emotion #CanadaElection

politico.com/news/magazine/202

A quotation from Joseph Addison

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/34941…

WIST Quotations · Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381 - Addison, Joseph | WIST QuotationsI have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On…

This is the final #Preview of the #MusicVideo for 'Diversion' and 'What Would Satisfy You?!' from the #Stifled EP, available now for $1/month on #SubscribeStar along with all of #TheProblem.

subscribestar.com/posts/1689319

If there are no issues, this version of it will be published online, only to likely get shadow-banned for DARING to raise my voice or have any #Emotion at all, 'cuz THAT gets prioritised over the fact ELECTRONS MOVING CAN KILL YOU.