Weekly selfie collage

Half elephant half female 

 John Berger Quote 

“If you buy a painting you buy also the look of the thing it represents.”

“Before they are anything else, they are themselves objects which can be bought and owned. Unique objects. A patron cannot be surrounded by music or poems in the same WaY as he is surrounded by his pictures.”

Mirzoeff:

Quote: 

“Seeing the world is not about how we see but about what we make of what we see”

“trained to pay attention to distractions”

Wangechi Mutu at Met

“these graceful, commanding figures will change the face of the museum, literally and figuratively. As a test run suggests, they will sometimes reflect sunlight with spooky intensity, in what Ms. Mutu calls “a stunning message from beyond.” It is testament to her belief that, like street theater or religious rituals, art can nudge viewers toward congregation”

“The work of these women is immense. The regard for them is not.”

The Feminist Challenge of Wangechi Mutu

“ These layered references and remixed body politics contribute to an interrogation of otherness, race, alienation, and female representation.”

Wangechi Mutu Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum

“Sampling such diverse sources as African traditions, international politics, the fashion industry, pornography, and science fiction, her work explores gender, race, war, colonialism, global consumption, and the exoticization of the black female body”

“Bringing her interconnected ecosystems to life for this exhibition through sculptural installations and videos, Mutu encourages audiences to consider these mythical worlds as places for cultural, psychological, and socio-political exploration and transformation.”