Under the sun, 2008

Auringon alla/ Under the sun, 2008

Sexual harassment is never a minor issue, not at school, at work, on the street, on the internet, it is not accepted anywhere.

Sexism is not minor issue, it is a huge one. It is too often lightly passed as something that just exists and we should learn to live with. It is so normal that we easily become blind and accepting towards sexist behavior and think people should tolerate it because it is useless to give critique which is often turned to be whining. For people who think in a sexist way sexism is normal and right, it is funny, a leisure activity and a grouping thing. Sexist sees people via sex, something to rightfully have, people as sexual pleasure bringing toys, something to play with. As our culture is deeply sexist viewing women especially as providers of pleasure it is compulsory to act against sexism, against discrimination, objectification, diminishing of women, it is common not to see women as thinking and feeling persons who have authority over their lives and bodies. Sexist behavior is when group of people judge someone’s appearance, clothing, abilities and bully this person out as inferior, make her or him feel either unaccepted or only wanted because of her/his appearance. Sexist imagery is when women wear very little clothing and men are fully clothed, women dance overly sexually provocatively in music videos, sexism is to see only certain type of bodies and faces in advertising, movies, as celebrities, sexism is to favor boys over girls, to think certain professions are for boys or girls, schooling is for boys only, to silence female voices, silence female talent, not to listen and not to bring variety of people in front. Just to mention couple of examples.

 

Tourist attraction commenting ecology or what. Commenting and concerns become pointless when the very ground of doing things is wrong. Patching and stitching up won’t do and we are in a situation like that: complete turnover is the only alternative.

 

Flowers on palm. If women are flowers on palm of hand, they are easily crushed.

How old, what is the time, when.

Took pictures of wedding dresses on flea market window. They were anonymous without the woman who had worn them. There is something peculiar about white wedding dresses that is a theatrical play. It is as if it is a reminder of a tradition that is gone and buried but kept alive for the sake of promised princess days for all women who wish to be princesses for one day. Somehow very strange since there were many of those dresses hanging in the window with more or less lace and padding of some sort, layers hanging like ghosts, curtains, mystery bodies of dreams and fantasies in plain cubic environment of block elements with little vegetation growing from cracks of asphalt. Poetic in non poetic.
When every day is meaningful how should we think about time and aging as we are bound to having limited time, limited energy and just being limited and jailed because of many reasons that have to do with age, body and time? Is meaningfulness connected to sense of time and decay which we feel when we age, when we are too old, too young. When is a normal age to do anything and feel something about age of one? And why those wedding dresses appear old? Must be the flea market effect.

 

Tool of the day

I’m in such a hurry

 

Finding not adequate or good but extraordinary

 

Where do we have to go? Why are we compelled to go far as if there is something better, to say we went, we did and we were there? Is it a matter of going, moving and changing of scenery, finding or something else?