women's past, present, future

Anna Othoko, a freshman from Kenya, at her Russian class. Moscow University, November 1966.

Zlatá brána (Golden gate) is traditional game of Slovak children. 

To not end where you thought you did, not with skin but water not with arms but meadow of watercress, dropwort, floating pennywort, against all odds to be buoyant.

To feel there is an upward force greater than the weight of the heart the knuckles the head to feel as in to feel it physically push up the ribs which are bones now

[...] hordes of heartbeats not my own: mollusc onto stone, milfoil onto moss, mayfly onto trout,

[...] the satisfaction of finding a spot deep enough to swim in needs its own word, signalling a joy at depth, like snorkelling without the snork; kelling – eruption of eye over retina in slow pan of arrival, in spring kelling. Entry is slip, unplanned into palette of oils, limbs form brushstrokes, muddied in matter,

smell of earth and sadness at getting further from the river needs its own word; a de-connecting, de-spiriting, de-kelling –

[...] in the day in the river in the moss in the rushes we’ll come and part in the river in the heather in the rushes in the rain we’ll stay and the day and the day and the days dart over and summer is over »

Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan / Լավինիա Բաժբեուկ-Մելիքյան, b. Georgia, 1922; d. Armenia, 2005 Self Portrait Armenia (1979) [Source]

Wikipedia says:

Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan… was a Soviet- Armenian artist. Full member of Russian Academy of Arts, People’s Artist of the Armenian SSR.

Promenade in Arkhangelsk, Russia

Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikian / Լավինիա Բաժբեուկ-Մելիքյան, b. Georgia, 1922; d. Armenia, 2005 Self Portrait Armenia (1965) [Source], [Source]

Wikipedia says:

Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan… was a Soviet- Armenian artist. Full member of Russian Academy of Arts, People’s Artist of the Armenian SSR.

Library and reading room at the House of Education in Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Rural scene in Imperial Russia