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Cristalina aka Surrealistic Menina Photographer, Art, Music and Poetry Lover โœจ๏ธ Music is my Religion โœจ๏ธ Love to laugh and to make laugh ๐Ÿ’• Indigo child High Priestess Avatar and banner, by ยฎ Eric Brenner

Booooom dia,

Dogs, dogs, everywhere dogs, and squirrels and ๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ!

I think it's a parade...a parade of animals!!!

#InkblotArt

https://youtu.be/1h6F-YngTi0?si=_SQkyCg89gsp_Ad-

This!

#LoveIsTheAnswer

Yes, Robert did a good job. I nailed it also ! ๐Ÿ˜‹โœจ

Morning everyone! โ˜€๏ธ๐Ÿซ‚

#GM

#FoodforThougt

"No piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has. It's programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid thatโ€™s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running...if too much escapes, it will die so it's desperately trying to pull it back to continue to fight for another day. Saddest part is they gave the robot the ability to do these 'happy dances' to spectators. When the project was first launched it danced around spending most of its time interacting with the crowd since it could quickly pull back the small spillage. Many years later... (as you see it now in the video) it looks tired and hopeless as there isn't enough time to dance anymore.. It now only has enough time to try to keep itself alive as the amount of leaked hydraulic fluid became unmanageable as the spill grew over time. Living its last days in a never-ending cycle between sustaining life and simultaneously bleeding out... (Figuratively and literally as its hydraulic fluid was purposefully made to look like it's actual blood).

"The robot arm finally ran out of hydraulic fluid in 2019, slowly came to a halt and died - And I am now tearing up over a friggin robot arm ๐Ÿ˜ญ It was programmed to live out this fate and no matter what it did or how hard it tried, there was no escaping it. Spectators watched as it slowly bled out until the day that it ceased to move forever. Saying that 'this resonates' doesn't even do it justice imo. Created by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, they named the piece, 'Can't Help Myself'. What a masterpiece. What a message."

Extended interpretations: the hydraulic fluid in relation to how we kill ourselves both mentally and physically for money just in an attempt to sustain life, how the system is set up for us to fail on purpose to essentially enslave us and to steal the best years of our lives to play the game that the richest people of the world have designed. How this robs us of our happiness, passion and our inner peace. How we are slowly drowning with more responsibilities, with more expected of us, less rewarding pay-offs and less free time to enjoy ourselves with as the years go by. How there's really no escaping the system and that we were destined at birth to follow a pretty specific path that was already laid out before us. How we can give and give and give and how easily we can be forgotten after we've gone.. How we are loved and respected when we are valuable, then one day we aren't any longer and we become a burden...and how our young, free-caring spirit gets stolen from us as we get churned out of the broken system that we are trapped inside of. Can also be seen to represent the human life cycle and the fact that none of us make it out of this world alive. But also can act as a reminder to allow yourself to heal, rest and love with all of your heart. That the endless chase for 'more' isn't necessary in finding your own inner happiness.โ€ )

- James Kricked Parr

I miss receiving and sending letters and postcards...was fascinating the surprise! ๐Ÿ™Œ

Still have some. ๐Ÿ˜‹

First Equatorial Guinea Bodypainting Festival (EGBF 2019) was a smashing success and a stunning display of beauty and talented artistry. Top artists from 18 countries around the World as well as local artists got together to create spectacular living artworks. Among artists, there were 11 bodypainting World Champions. Local participants and models did a superb job especially considering that for many of them this was the very first time that they got bodypainted. The public was simply blown away by the unique artistic designs that transformed regular people into Mystical Beauties.

#Bodypainter

#Artstr

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"If you are one of those people who has the ability to make it down to the bottom of the ocean, the ability to swim the dark waters without fear, the astonishing ability to move through life's worst crucibles and not die, then you also have the ability to bring something back to the surface that helps others in a way that they cannot achieve themselves."

~ Lidia Yuknavitch

[Image: Mihail Zablodski]

#Inspirationstr

#Artstr

"The Sick Succulent"

by Robert Petersen

#Photography