Drapetomania or Paradise invented
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 15 Οκτωβρίου, 2021 Filed under: aegean, Greece, hiking, Ikaria, Ικαρία, photography, trekking | Tags: action shots, Aegean, art, artful, artistic nude, for nature in nature, free expression, freedom, Greece, Ikaria, φωτογραφίες, Ικαρία, μονοπάτια, Kavo Papas, nakedness, nude on rocks, photography, rock climbing, wilderness 9 ΣχόλιαAt the end of this summer as I was looking through an admirable group of photos on I/G taken in Ikaria, I found out that they were all tagged #drapetomania, a strange word seemingly coming from Greek. Oh no, it’s not about that old «runaway slave syndrome» devised for obvious reasons by American pseudoscientists in the mid-19 cent. Those bad connotations forgotten today, the word seems to have taken up a new meaning, but still, yes, it remains a ‘syndrome’ alright, though this time a cultural, not a psychological one, to be sure. Just google it up and you will see. Given that, I took the liberty to update the definition by adding a few words. It goes as follows:
Drapetomania: «an overwhelming urge to be free, to find Paradise; if nessecary, to invent it.»
However, the point of this article, my readers, lies not upon terminology but upon photography. Because, in my opinion, the choice of photos I am presenting to you today possess one unique feature: a perfect, subtle balance between the animate and the inanimate, between the organic and the inorganic, and if you wish as well, the finitness of the self and the infiniteness of the cosmos. Having taken part myself in shootings like this in the past, I know from first hand that during the process (as long as the photographer is gifted) there is point when all forms merge into oneness and all feelings disappear.
Looking at certain scenes with half-closed eyes blinded by the merciless glow, you can’t really tell if the human is rock or the rock is human (or animal). It’s a moment of trance and transition, a moment when I can’t help but agree with Albert Camus:
«The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.»
But I have to restaint myself and not let my words shadow the work of the artist. Behold therefore now Elena’s appasionados por la libertad. Look at them as they ‘draptsise’ to another world, neither christian or pagan: the world of crystallic rock surfaces, deep clear water and scorching sunlight. It’s a paradise neither lost, nor won. It’s a paradise invented. 😉
Thursday, October 14, 2021 Next post : «Ο ΔΑΙΜΟΝΑΣ ΣΤΟ ΒΟΥΝΟ» Previous post : «Our wild school of girls & newer pics ☺»
Our wild school of girls & newer pics ☺
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 23 Μαΐου, 2021 Filed under: aegean, Greece, hiking, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, lifestyle, Personal, photography, Sea, sport | Tags: Aegean Sea, all-in-all, for nature in nature, free expression, freedom, fundamental, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ελευθερία, μονοπάτια, life, nature, photography, safe space, Save Atheras, skin, What matters, why-ikaria, womanhood, women pride 1 σχόλιοfundamental (/fʌndəˈmɛnt(ə)l/): serious and very important; affecting the most central and important parts of something.
[Oxford Dictionary]
Aye! That was a challenge! They said that my posts based upon and inspired from Instagram shots taken in Ikaria are ok, but they’d rather see instead my own old or newer photos time and again, because, as they said, they are dowed with a quality different from I/G. And that quality is, as they said again, that they are fundamental. I am not really sure of the meaning and I will certainly not bother anybody with guesses. Whatever they meant, I straightforwardly took it as a compliment, and as a gesture of thanks, I am assembling this post with the idea of fundamentality flashing in my head, and as I am doing so, I realize that I know no other with this attribute (i.g. fundamental) than freedom, nature and womanhood.
Therefore, behold my friends and supporters, under a title borrowed from one of my albums on Flickr a total of eighty-eight (including the header) photos about freedom, nature and womanhood, the last two interrelating, interchanging, interacting. There is also some sport and a bit of farming and other stuff too, ok? Being fundamental doesn’t mean being always coherent, I think. 😉
NOTE 1: The first rows are thumbnails from my Flickr, while the rest come from our blogs, Eleni’s and mine.
NOTE 2: Comments under this post are disabled. You may visit the photos in the source instead. They contain so many additions, links and comments, that each one makes an article of its own. Check them out and feel free to add your comments there.
NOTE 3: I have marked in color the thumbnails opening to the most significant pictures, according to my opinion.
Big thanks.
Nana
♥️♥️♥️
Sunday, May 23, 2021 Next post : «Drapetomania or Paradise invented» Previous post : «Εικόνες μιας σύγχρονης λαογραφίας»
Drop the top and free the nipples ⭕ ⭕
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 29 Νοεμβρίου, 2020 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, lifestyle, photography, Uncategorized | Tags: Aegean, democracy, free expression, free the nipple, freedom, fun, girls, Greece, Ikaria, Instagram, χαρά, Ικαρία, joyful, photography, playful, politics, safe space, summer, swimming, topfree, topless, why-ikaria, womanhood, women pride 1 σχόλιο«Over the past year, the Free the Nipple Movement has gained tons of momentum and support from millions of men and women.»
«While media portrays women’s bodies as objects intended for sexual pleasure, many are speaking out against this injustice by standing with Free the Nipple to create equality between men and women and to fight against oversexualizing women.»
«This movement promotes freedom for women to be able to make their own decisions about their body based upon their own level of comfort. It is important that women conceal their breasts because they want to and not because of the pressure of societal acceptance and shame.»
«While this movement has been increasing momentum, it is now gaining popularity within other countries and now college campuses, both of which are crusading against the oversexulization of women and even rape culture.»
«While many want to assume that the importance of normalizing women’s nipples are just a cry for sexual attention, it’s more than that for many reasons.»
«In essence, this movement has everything to do with gender equality, and social equality, but for whatever reason, people still aren’t taking women rights seriously enough.»
«It is time for women and men to speak out against the injustices made against women, not just within social settings but online as well in order to end the oversexualization of the female body.»
«What inspires women to submit their naked photos online? The short answer is – Control. The ability to show yourself on your terms, how you’d like to be seen, free from the distortion of someone else’s viewpoint and the sanitizing of Photoshop. For some contributors this is an exposition of pure art. For others it’s a rebellious gesture, erotic expression, a desire to be desired, or a cathartic process. And for everyone, as we’re told every day, it’s just hugely fun…»
WOMEN SUPPORTING WOMEN for womenhood
and against femicide. I love you all, be strong, be real. ♥️
Nana
Sunday, November 29, 2020 Next post : «Εικόνες μιας σύγχρονης λαογραφίας» Previous post : «Στις υγρές σχισμές της γης»
Στις υγρές σχισμές της γης
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 5 Σεπτεμβρίου, 2020 Filed under: aegean, Greece, hiking, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, photography, Uncategorized | Tags: action shots, Aegean, angel's-pool, angelos, direct approach, farangi mou, for nature in nature, free expression, Greece, hiking, Ikaria, φαράγγι, Μηλιωπό, Ρυάκας, Χάλαρη, αγγελολιβάδες, ικαρία, μονοπάτια, landscapes, mountain-gorge, people in landscape, symbolisms, symbols, Trail2Canyons, wild swimming, wilderness 8 Σχόλιατου μπλογκ του αγριμιού.
Είμαι καλεσμένος σήμερα από την τόσο σεβαστή όσο και ωραία οικοδέσποινα για να εκπληρώσω μια δύσκολη αποστολή: να περιγράψω τα φαράγγια και τις βαθιές χαράδρες του πολύπλοκου νησιού μας χωρίς σχεδόν καθόλου λόγια, παρά μόνο με ένα τίτλο και μόνο μία όσο το δυνατόν, κατά τη γνώμη μου, πιο εύγλωττη εικόνα.
Ιδού ο τίτλος, ιδού και η εικόνα. Αυτό ήταν το αποτέλεσμα, και εδώ κανονικά ολοκληρώθηκε η αποστολή μου.
Όμως, μόνο για χάρη των αναγνωστών, ώστε να έχει κάποιο μέγεθος το άρθρο, η οικοδέσποινα μου ζήτησε να παραθέσω μερικές φωτογραφίες από το facebook που δείχνουν αρκετά καλά – πάντα κατά τη γνώμη μου, εννοείται – αυτό που είχα σαν αποστολή να εκθέσω τόσο επιγραμματικά επί του θέματος.
Ευχαριστώ
Νανά
Σάββατο, 5 Σεπτεβρίου 2020 Next post : «Drop the top and free the nipples ⭕ ⭕» Previous post : «OPERE IN NATURA»
OPERE IN NATURA
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 20 Ιουνίου, 2020 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, photography, Sea, Uncategorized | Tags: Aegean, artful, cairns, ephemeral art, for nature in nature, freedom, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, Νας, Σεϋχέλλες Ικαρίας, αγριότοποι, ικαρία, land art, my world, nakedness, photography, profile, stone work, stony softness, thorns, why-ikaria 12 Σχόλια~
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Celebrating the beginning of summer and the end of the covid-19 lockdown in Greece, while our friends are back and our days and nights are busy, I am hastily writing up this post made out of three short topics.
The first is that, on this occasion, I travelled into outer cyberspace and picked up one of my old profile pictures. I think it’s the oldest and, like everything, it’s also connected to a story, but never mind for now; you can just read the short version hidden behind the image.
The second and most important is, of course, about art; land art in particular – so suitable for Ikaria and it’s wild solitary landscapes. So, I am presenting here a few amazing stone works by the renowned visual artist Manfred Flucke, also known as Deva Manfredo, that I fished out from his facebook page.
Four out of ten were made in Ikaria, as I am sure I can recognize the site where the photos were taken, and that’s most likely Nas. Judging from the color and the kind of the stone, I also suspect that two others were made in Seychelles beach. The remaining four were probably made elsewhere in the world. Yet, they might as well have been in Ikaria because of the light, the shadows and the landscapes in the background which all seem so familiar. They are almost identical to ours!
On facebook, Manfred entitles this collection «OPERE IN NATURA» («Works in Nature»). I liked this wonderfully simple title so I chose to borrow it for my article.
And now see the photos!
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I am closing this article with just another German artist, photographer Charleen Dahms. Last year probably, she took a photo in Nas, that I like very much.
The foundations of the ancient temple, hardly discernible among spiky spurges and broken pieces.of white marble, and two female figures standing naked on the top bathed in the dim yellow light of the setting sun with the little cave just below their feet…
I find there is something strongly primal and elemental in the scene. I think Charleen has captured the essence of this magical wild place.
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ΟΧΙ ΒΑΠΕ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΚΑΡΙΑ!
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 18 Δεκεμβρίου, 2019 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, photography, Uncategorized | Tags: capitalism, disaster, fascism, freedom, Greece, Ikaria, Ορειβατικός Πεζοπορικός Σύλλογος Ικαρίας, ΟΠΣ Ικαρίας, απειλές, ανεμογεννήτριες, ικαρία, κύκλος εργασιών, kills-you, petition, Save Atheras, Save Pramnos, wind turbines Σχολιάστε.
«Δεν μας έφταναν τα χιλιάδες αδέσποτα των κατσικάδων, τώρα θα ΄χουμε και τα εκατόν δέκα τέρατα των ανεμογεννητριάδων. Το βουνό μας τελείωσε. Όλα μπάζα θα γίνουν. Πάνε και τα νερά. Το νησί μας τελείωσε..»
[κουβέντα στο καφενείο]
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ΙΚΑΡΙΑ: ΥΠΟΓΡΑΦΟΥΜΕ
ΚΑΤΑ ΤΩΝ 110 ΑΝΕΜΟΓΕΝΝΗΤΡΙΩΝ
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Αγαπητοί αναγνώστες,
σ’ αυτήν την ανάρτηση βλέπετε μερικές φωτογραφίες από την Πεζο-Πορεία Διαμαρτυρίας και Αντίστασης στις ΒΑΠΕ που οργάνωσε ο Ορειβατικός Πεζοπορικός Σύλλογος Ικαρίας την Τετάρτη 11 Δεκέμβρη, Παγκόσμια Ημέρα Βουνού, συμμετέχοντας στην Πανελλήνια Διαμαρτυρία κατά των Βιομηχανικών Αιολικών Πάρκων που ήδη εγκαθίστανται με διαδικασίες fast track στα βουνά της ηπειρωτικής Ελλάδας και των νησιών…
(βλ. περισσότερα στην ανακοίνωση της δράσης)
Ήταν μια ωραία μέρα και ο καιρός (παρά την νυκτερινή καταιγίδα) ήταν πολύ καλός! Ευχαριστούμε όσους συμμετείχαν αλλά και τους άλλους που δεν μπόρεσαν να έρθουν αλλά μας στήριξαν και μας ενθάρρυναν. Ήταν σαν να τους είχαμε μαζί μας!
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ΣΤΟ ΟΝΟΜΑ ΤΩΝ ΣΥΜΦΕΡΟΝΤΩΝ!
ΟΧΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΟΠΕΔΩΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΒΟΥΝΩΝ ΜΑΣ
ΣΤΟ ΟΝΟΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΚΕΡΔΟΥΣ!
ΟΧΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΡΑΣΙΝΗ ΟΙΚΟ-ΚΤΟΝΙΑ!
ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΣ ΑΘΕΡΑΣ ΧΩΡΙΣ ΑΙΟΛΙΚΑ!
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στον χάρτη Google
και διαβάστε επίσης τις συζητήσεις στο σχετικό
στη σελίδα μας στο facebook καθώς και στο γκρουπ
«Ορειβάτες Πεζοπόροι Ικαρίας» στο facebook.
Two trees
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 7 Νοεμβρίου, 2019 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, Personal, photography, Uncategorized | Tags: action shots, Aegean, art, artful, artistic nude, for nature in nature, freedom, Greece, Ikaria, ικαρία, nakedness, natural movements, nude on rocks, outdoors, performance, photography, why-ikaria, wilderness 5 Σχόλια.
Instagram: Elements 1/3, Ikaria, October 31, 2019
Facebook: Elements 1/3, Ikaria, October 31, 2019
See a few more photos of my choice taken in Ikaria
also by Thomas Huisman © all rights reserved
Through that experience, also, I saw that countless sites and sceneries of this island, wild and free by nature and culture, are very suitable for the genre. Beyond that, as it happens with art, the results, when exhibited, get back to the locations as an appraisal to their quality. I have pointed that out in 2014. It feels like my message has reached the proper recipients.
I am glad
Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry - rupi kaur https://www.instagram.com/p/C0RdZ-PNet_/?taken-by=schwickertt/