#staringman

Técnica: Acuarela

What the photographers and Rita tried to do was to recreate the brown, female body as we, or people in general have experienced it. Women all over the world have at least once in their lifetime experienced a threatening situation involving the opposite sex that might have left her feeling some type of way. What we aimed to do was to ambiguously recreate instances of hardship, injustice and inequality that women face every day. Through dance, movement, poetry, and rhythm; the models' bodies encapsulated moments of vulnerability, permeability, transparency; the contorted and distorted, the subordinate and the inferior. As the women arise from the ashes of violence, from the denial of self-love and acceptance; she is reborn into a new day. a new self. A new beginning follows her as she learns to embrace her body as a pillar of strength; embodying both male and female characteristics. She takes back her own humanity. She holds on strongly to her-manity, demanding it, owning it, living through it in all her essence. No longer does society’s norm apply to her. No longer does she have to kneel to the iron fist of patriarchal subordination. She embraces her body in all her curvatures - and she loves what she sees.