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s-arslan · 1 year

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Is that SANEM ARSLAN I see over there? You know they have quite a reputation of being the ARTISAN around town. The 27 year old has been seen around these parts living in CHESTNUT APARTMENTS for HER ENTIRE LIFE and within that timeframe has landed themselves a job as a TATTOO ARTIST/ARTIST. I overheard that they can be quite SELF-DEPRECATING but their saving grace is that they are CREATIVE. They remind me of PAINT-SPLATTERED DENIM AND THE SMELL OF CLEAN LINENS but you’ll have to decide that for yourself.

Sanem Emel Arslan was born to two people who honestly shouldn’t have had kids. They were two young people caught up in the moment and thought marriage was better than nothing. Sanem was given up for adoption at three years old alongside her younger sister Nazli when it became obvious that kids couldn’t fix a relationship and she spent most of her life bouncing from foster home to foster home.

She was adopted at age seven by Elizabeth and Garrett Thomas, a couple who was more performative about their work than anything. They had adopted seven kids by time she arrived with Sanem being the youngest one of all. They had attempted to change her name from her Turkish name to one that didn’t suit her and it only stopped when it became clear that she wouldn’t answer to it. They adopted kids from unfortunate circumstances for no other reason than martyrdom. After adopting Sanem, the state finally told them they couldn’t adopt or foster anymore because they ran out of room.

By the time Sanem turned fourteen, she had been threatened with a group home five times unless she “played ball.” She couldn’t keep any money from babysitting jobs she did or any odd jobs, as her siblings often stole it out of their room. Sometimes, it was simply because she had to “earn her keep” and give her parents money for rent and food, despite the checks given to them by the state.

Sanem was kicked out the day after her eighteenth birthday with nothing but a backpack of clothes and about fifty dollars to her name. She was forced to move onto her neighbor’s couch until she could figure out her next move. With no phone and hardly any way to get one, she took odd jobs to make enough to buy her own phone. Her biggest stress relief growing up was art and she wasn’t just good, she was good. Few things came naturally to her, but art was it. The one gift she ever received without strings or expectations of repayment was an art set and a small section of the house to work. She was accepted to Paier College and worked as a waitress and as an artist in the meantime in order to pay bills until she met someone who changed her world forever. It’s from them that she heard the four words she hadn’t realized she was dying to hear her entire life: let me help you.

Having someone pay for college, an apartment, and an actually decent lifestyle was completely foreign, but for the first time, she knew what it was like to not have to struggle. She could focus on school instead of working herself into the ground.

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Became a sugar baby to pay for art school, still very good friends with said former glucose guardian (it wasn’t a romantic/sexual relationship, but instead a mentor/mentee-esque relationship. this person only wanted to help her succeed when everyone wanted to hold her back. they also helped her get sober) (Connection filled by Matthieu Dixon)

Recovering alcoholic, started her journey of sobriety two years ago. She still struggles, but she’s determined to not relapse. Smokes both marijuana and nicotine for the oral fixation, both vape pens and cigarettes. Surprisingly great at being hydrated, she has a large refillable water bottle on her person at all times.

Became a tattoo artist upon seeing Miami Ink and loves the challenge. She specializes in animals and flowers, as well as calligraphy. She’s currently honing her people-drawing skills, as well as big cats. Strangely talented with dogs/wolves/all things canine.

Well-known for having a light touch and a close attention to detail.

Has a black Lab named Bosco.

Allergic to cats and strawberries.

No contact with her adoptive family, despite their attempts to get in touch with her.

Recently got into contact with her biological parents and learned of her younger sister’s existence. Hasn’t gotten into contact with her sister quite yet.

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jokeanddaggerdept · 4 years

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#Dahn Vo #Calligraphy in ink on grounded linen #77 3⁄16 × 388 1⁄16 × 1 1⁄4 inches #Annals of the former world #2013

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optikes · 3 years

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Kadim Ali b. 1978, Pakistan; lives and works in Sydney Australia

Sermon on the Mount (2020)

Linen, cotton, nylon, ink, natural dye, synthetic dye, acrylic paint; painting, hand and machine embroidery, appliqué 557 x 397.5cm

Born 1978 Quetta, Pakistan, Khadim Ali currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. After growing up in Pakistan as a refugee, Ali was trained in classical miniature painting at the National College of Arts in Lahore and in mural painting and calligraphy in Tehran.

1 ima.org.au “I became other. I became one of the wearied, dusty faces from across the border. And although there was no boundary between us, and we were all citizens of one country, suddenly an invisible border of horror was drawn around me that made it impossible to get out” Khadim Ali

In his largest Australian solo exhibition to date, Hazara artist Khadim Ali explores the normalisation of war and the experience of refugees through a series of poetic installations and textile works. Invisible Border comprises sound installation, miniature painting, and a monumental 9-metre-long tapestry, hand woven by a community of Hazara men and women, some who have lost family members in war. Featuring existing work alongside new commissions developed for the IMA, the exhibition will also feature Otherness, a major body of work developed in partnership with the IMA and Lahore Biennale Foundation.

Ali’s interest in tapestries developed soon after his parents’ home in Quetta, Pakistan was destroyed by suicide bombers. Amongst the rubble and debris left from the blast, a collection of rugs and weavings remained the only thing intact: miraculously able to withstand the reign of terror inflicted upon his family and community. In this new large-scale tapestry, and other works, Ali explores the impact of war, trauma and displacement drawing parallels from the Book of Shahnameh, a Persian literary masterpiece comprising of 50,000 couplets and written between c. 977 and 1010 CE.

Just like the many great mythic tales in the Shannameh, Ali’s intricate works depict stories of demons and angels, conquest and war through the lens of the persecuted Hazara community. Expressing the profound grief, trauma and loss experienced at the hands of modern-day warfare, Invisible Border is a necessary and vital exhibition during a time of political propaganda, violence, and fear.

2 ima.org.au Ali’s interest in tapestries developed soon after his parents’ home in Quetta was destroyed by a car bomb. Amongst the rubble and debris left from the blast, a collection of rugs and weavings remained the only items intact: miraculously able to withstand the reign of terror inflicted upon his family and community. In these new large-scale tapestries, Ali makes comment on war, geo-politics and personal trauma, drawing from a range of historical and contemporary influences including the recent Black Summer bushfires, Persian literary masterpieces, children’s fables and the Mughal Dynasty. Expressing the profound horror, grief and loss experienced under modern-day warfare, Invisible Border is a necessary and vital exhibition during a time where political propaganda, violence, and fear pervades global relations.

3 Daisy Siddal inqld.com.au Ali has lived in Australia since 2009, nominated to arrive on a distinguished talent visa by then QAGOMA Director Tony Ellwood. Ali has worked between Australia and Afghanistan ever since.

Ali’s most recent work, Sermon on the Mount, adopts inspiration from the Bible and the Black Summer bushfires to generate a criticism of the experience of climate change.

Ali, who lives in Sydney’s inner-west, said his home was 40km away from the Black Summer bushfires.

“During the black summer we had horrible smoke. We were barely able to breathe. I was looking at the smoke and it was nostalgic, reminding me of the war,” he said.

“It reminded me of the stories people told when fleeing from a town that was set on fire, saying there was smoke on the mountain.

“The people who set their villages on fire, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, they were considered a terrorist organisation. What do you call the corporations who caused climate change and set fire to a significant part of the forest of Australia?” he said.

IMA [Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane] Executive Director and exhibition curator Liz Nowell said she was thrilled to present Ali’s largest exhibition to date, in his adopted home of Australia.

“Khadim Ali is without a doubt one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists. His thought- provoking and poetic works have been seen all over the world: from the Guggenheim in New York to the Venice Biennale,” Ms Nowell said.

“Through intricately constructed textiles that draw on literature, traditional art forms, personal narratives and global politics, Invisible Border speaks powerfully to the experience of displaced peoples everywhere.”

4 guggenheim.org Born in 1978, Khadim Ali grew up in the border city of Quetta, Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan. Trained in the art of contemporary miniature painting at the prestigious National College of Art in Lahore, Pakistan, and in mural painting and calligraphy at Tehran University, Iran, Ali is inspired by his rich cultural heritage and employs traditional artistic techniques to convey the complex history of this region. His work provocatively confronts the social and religious prejudice his family has faced and considers its effect on the writing of history, particularly during wartime.

5 ima.org.au Since relocating to Sydney twelve years ago, Ali has begun incorporating quotidian Australian iconography such as eucalyptus, currency and kangaroos into his work. Sermon on the Mount (2020) is an example of the artist’s evolving visual language. A direct response to the 2020 Black Summer bushfires—which devasted much of Australia’s bushland—the work depicts a cast of animals and mythical creatures seeking refuge atop a mountain engulfed in flames. The title of the work, Sermon on the Mount, makes direct reference to a series of teachings attributed to Jesus Christ, and widely considered to contain some of his most important messages. This composite tapestry, which was initially constructed as a digital collage, is the artist’s reimagining of a 15th century illustration from the Anwar-i Suhayli. Widely considered a masterpiece of world literature, the Anwar-i Suhayli (also known as Kalīla wa-Dimna, in Arabic, or Panchatantra in Sanskrit) is a collection of fables describing animals as heroic creatures. In the original drawing, held in collection of the British Museum, a crow addresses a group of birds to rally their support against a leader of the owls. In Ali’s version, the crow is replaced by a koala, who is seen towering above a cluster of animals as she delivers a prophecy that foretells the destruction of mother nature at the hands of humankind. While watching the fires unfold on the evening news, Ali was overcome with a deep and pervasive fear, which he likens to his experience living in a conflict zone.

As the artist himself states ‘The bushfires reminded me of the violence I spent my life trying to escape. At the same time as the Taliban burns people and their homes to the ground, a fire—only 40km from my house in Sydney—decimated whole species and blackened thousands of hectares of bushland. As the newsreader described animals feeling for their lives, I recalled whole villages hysterical and panicked as they tried to escape fire. So, what then, should we call these people—these corporations—who are destroying our natural world and quite literally scorching the ground we walk on?’

#khadim ali #Afghanistan #embroidery #applique #textile #narrative #tapestry

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katzkinder · 4 years

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Scent headcanons because fuck it I guess. @hisakata-resutomoshibi this is entirely your fault >:T

Mahiru: Sunbaked dirt, fresh linen, and lemon cleaner. He uses the same body wash and shampoo as his uncle, which is sandalwood and bergamot scented.

Kuro: Faintly metallic, but there always seems to be a sort of misty morning smell clinging to him. Mahiru’s soap and shampoo. Lawless thinks the smell doesn’t suit him. Mahiru has asked if he has any hygiene product preferences, but Kuro really doesn’t care.

Sakuya: ... Also uses the same bodywash as Mahiru. The metallic scent that clings to vampires is stronger on him. Snapdragons, which have a smell similar to bubblegum, and frost. Around his neck, where his headphones rest, has a clinging scent of leather.

Tsubaki: Summer rain and green tea. Something unmistakably floral, though it’s impossible to pin down.

Tooru: Printer ink and ozone. A more neutral sort of citrus than Mahiru. Registers as mild and forgettable to most vampires, though certain ones will catch a whiff and find themselves suddenly thinking of home.

Misono: Vanilla and fresh cut flowers. Very girly, laughs. His favorite brand of tea. Occasionally, if Lily isn’t careful, there’s the faintest catch of cigarette smoke, too subtle for most to pick up. Despite smelling absolutely delectable to vampires, he’s never had a problem with Subclass accosting him thanks to the Servamp dutifully by his side

Lily: Fresh ground coffee, expensive perfume, and cigarette smoke. Something milky and comforting underneath. Unlike Mikuni, he’s mastered the art of applying the perfect amount of perfume/cologne.

Tetsu: Calligraphy ink, hot towels, and pine. He sweats a lot, so he’s extra diligent about applying deodorant. Takes a bath in the hotsprings daily.

Hugh: Wine, cold stone, and crushed velvet. Lately, he’s started picking up the smell of pine from sharing Tetsu’s futon at night.

Mikuni: Old books, leather, and fabric shops, though it’s overpowered by the super fancy cologne he wears to mask his scent from vampires.

Jeje: Gunpowder. Cut wood. Something burnt but pleasant. Cinnamon.

Licht: Honey, the smell of a perfectly clear spring day. Parchment paper. He likes using cutesy character themed bodywash. Is considering using something similar for his hair since Lawless seems to leave his soap alone.

Lawless: Wood smoke and copper, coffee and sweet clover. Usually hidden under some kind of trendy cologne. Can and will nick Licht’s shampoo just to piss him off.

--Gonna make a part two later, this is already too fucking long

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mialipsky-blog · 7 years

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A Color Happy Affair in the Arizona Desert

With friends and family traveling from Texas, Lindsay and Whit knew a “mini-destination” wedding in Arizona would be just the escape their guests needed. They set to work planning a lush, colorful, vibrant celebration while playing on Paradise Valley’s natural scenery of desert and mountain beauty. Rachel Solomon and Something New Media came on board to document the day and you can watch it all unfold from beginning to end.

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From the bride… Whit and I met at a SuperBowl party in February of 2012. Our conversation was fun and effortless and we learned that we had several mutual friends, but the spark was just not initially there for me. We lost touch for several months after that and went our separate ways – he moved to Nebraska while I stayed in Texas – but thankfully, we reconnected in September of 2012 when I learned that he was a groomsman in a wedding that I would be attending the following February. Since we lived in different states, we began texting all day long, talking on the phone every single night, and spent as many weekends as we could to visit each other. We survived a two-year long distance relationship and after we both finished graduate school, we decided to settle down in Texas in the summer of 2014.

Whit and I got engaged at the Camelback Inn in Paradise Valley, AZ on December 27th, 2015. I was hoping Whit would propose when we were visiting my family for Christmas that year. Many of my friends were beginning to get engaged and married, and I was just dreaming about when it would finally be our turn. Little did I know, Whit had taken a day off work and flew to Scottsdale a few weeks prior to the proposal. During his quick 12-hour visit to my hometown, he picked up my engagement ring at Oliver Smith Jeweler and started hunting for wedding venues with my parents and grandmother! Whit also scouted out the perfect spot to propose to me, in front of Camelback Mountain.

Whit and I stayed in Scottsdale through New Year’s Eve and began planning our springtime wedding in Arizona, the most beautiful time of year. Although we had a 15-month long engagement, we had most of our wedding vendors and details planned out by March of 2016. We felt lucky that we had tackled all of the “big stuff” pretty early on because that March also happened to be the same time we learned that we were expecting a baby flower girl in November of that year. We welcomed our beautiful daughter into the world a week before Thanksgiving, and she quickly stole our hearts and the hearts of all of our guests as my mom carried her down the aisle on March 18th, 2017, our wedding day!

When the wedding planning began in late December of 2015, Whit and I decided that we were going to have a “mini-destination wedding” in Arizona (considering most of our guests would be traveling from Texas). We chose to have our ceremony at Brophy Chapel since I graduated from Xavier College Preparatory in 2008, and we just knew our reception had to be at El Chorro! The desert landscape and breathtaking mountain views were the perfect scenery for our wedding.

My vision for our wedding theme was a romantic garden with some Arizona desert flair. My mom, Karen Hoffman, worked an endless amount of hours tying all of the details of our theme together, with the help of our planner, Christine Southerland. Randi Eshelman of Carte Blanche Design made my floral dreams come true, from the greenery that dressed the ceiling pipes in Casa Paloma to adding blue thistle and succulents into my hot pink bridal bouquet! The bright floral arrangements accompanied by the blue table linens from La Tavola Fine Linen added so much life and color to Casa Paloma at El Chorro.

Other details that made our wedding unique were our custom floral invitations and monogram designed by Jacki Miller of Foil & Ink; a special song (“Isn’t She Lovely”) dedicated to our daughter during the reception from Shining Star Band; Whit’s Death Star groom’s cake and the cactus cookie favors for our guests (with gold embossed monogram tags done by my mom) from Ruze Cake House; our wooden welcome sign, which was created by Autumn Matney; the groomsmen’s baby blue dotted bow ties from The Tie Bar; and my “something old”! Oliver Smith Jeweler designed all of the jewelry that I wore on our wedding day, except for my ruby cross, which was my something old passed all the way down from my great-great-grandmother.

I recently learned that my great-great-grandfather found this beautiful family heirloom on the ground in a park in Poland in the early 1900’s. The cross was given to my Babcia (my grandma), who wore it on her wedding day. She passed it down to my mother, who wore it on her wedding day, and now I got the privilege of wearing the cross on my wedding day. I am so looking forward to the day when I can place this cross around my own daughter’s neck just like my mom did for me!

Everything about our wedding day was absolutely perfect, and I am so thankful we chose the amazingly talented Rachel Solomon to photograph our wedding, as well as Something New Media who filmed our special day. Both Rachel and Something New Media have allowed us to relive our special day over and over again through the truly beautiful images they captured. We feel like we hit the jackpot with our wedding vendors and we wish we could play our wedding day on repeat, but for now, Whit and I will just enjoy watching our wedding film with our baby girl!

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