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Marina Abramović
|Marina Abramović
Abramović in 2012 with the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art at the Vienna International Film Festival
November 30, 1946
Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
|Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade
Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb
|Known for
|Performance Art, Body Art
|Notable work(s)
|Rhythm Series (1973–1974)
Works with Ulay (1976–1988)
Balkan Baroque (1997)
The Artist is Present (2010)
|Conceptual art
Marina Abramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian and Former Yugoslavian artist based in New York, a performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Active for over three decades, she has been described as the "grandmother of performance art."
- 1 Early life and education
- 2 Career
- 3 Prizes and awards
- 4 Art world
- 5 Bibliography
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 External links
Early life and education[edit]
She was born on November 30, 1946 in Belgrade, Serbia. Her great uncle was Patriarch Varnava of the Serbian Orthodox Church.[1] Both of her parents were Partisans[2] during the Second World War: her father Vojo was a commander who was acclaimed as a national hero after the War; her mother Danica was a major in the army and, in the 1960s, Director of the Museum of the Revolution and Art in Belgrade.
Abramović's father left the family in 1964. In an interview published in 1998, Abramović described how her "mother took complete military-style control of me and my brother. I was not allowed to leave the house after 10 o'clock at night till I was 29 years old. ... [A]ll the performances in Yugoslavia I did before 10 o'clock in the evening because I had to be home then. It's completely insane, but all of my cutting myself, whipping myself, burning myself, almost losing my life in the firestar, everything was done before 10 in the evening."[3]
Abramović was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade from 1965–70. She completed her post-graduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, SR Croatia in 1972. From 1973 to 1975, she taught at the Academy of Fine Arts at Novi Sad, while implementing her first solo performances.
From 1971 to 1976, she was married to Neša Paripović. In 1976, Abramović left Yugoslavia and moved to Amsterdam.
Rhythm 10: 1973[edit]
In her first performance in Edinburgh 1973,[4] Abramović explored elements of ritual and gesture. Making use of twenty knives and two tape recorders, the artist played the Russian game, in which rhythmic knife jabs are aimed between the splayed fingers of one's hand. Each time she cut herself, she would pick up a new knife from the row of twenty she had set up, and record the operation. After cutting herself twenty times, she replayed the tape, listened to the sounds, and tried to repeat the same movements, attempting to replicate the mistakes, merging past and present. She set out to explore the physical and mental limitations of the body – the pain and the sounds of the stabbing, the double sounds from the history and the replication. With this piece, Abramović began to consider the state of consciousness of the performer. "Once you enter into the performance state you can push your body to do things you absolutely could never normally do."[5]
Rhythm 5: 1974[edit]
In this performance, Abramović sought to re-evoke the energy of extreme bodily pain, using a large petroleum-drenched star, which the artist lit on fire at the start of the performance. Standing outside the star, Abramović cut her nails, toenails, and hair. When finished with each, she threw the clippings into the flames, creating a burst of light each time. Burning the communist five-pointed star represented a physical and mental purification, while also addressing the political traditions of her past. In the final act of purification, Abramović leapt across the flames, propelling herself into the center of the large star. Due to the light and smoke given off by the fire, the observing audience did not realize that, once inside the star, the artist had lost consciousness from lack of oxygen. Some members of the audience realized what had occurred only when the flames came very near to her body and she remained inert. A doctor and several members of the audience intervened and extricated her from the star.
Abramović later commented upon this experience: "I was very angry because I understood there is a physical limit: when you lose consciousness you can't be present; you can't perform."[6]
Rhythm 2: 1974[edit]
As an experiment testing whether a state of unconsciousness could be incorporated into a performance, Abramović devised a performance in two parts. In the first part, she took a pill prescribed for catatonia, a condition in which a person's muscles are immobilized and remain in a single position for hours at a time. Being completely healthy, Abramović's body reacted violently to the drug, and she experienced seizures and uncontrollable movements for the first half of the performance. Although she lacked any control over her body movements, her mind was lucid and she observed what was occurring.
Ten minutes after the effects of that drug had worn off, Abramović ingested another pill – this time one prescribed for aggressive and depressed people – which resulted in general immobility. Bodily she was present, yet mentally she was completely removed. (In fact, she has no memory of the lapsed time.) This project was an early component of her explorations of the connections between body and mind, which later took her to Tibet and the Australian desert. Following Rhythm 2, she set to develop the rest of the series of rhythm projects, continually testing her endurance.
Rhythm 0: 1974[edit]
To test the limits of the relationship between performer and audience, Abramović developed one of her most challenging (and best-known) performances. She assigned a passive role to herself, with the public being the force which would act on her. Abramović placed on a table 72 objects that people were allowed to use (a sign informed them) in any way that they chose. Some of these were objects that could give pleasure, while others could be wielded to inflict pain, or to harm her. Among them were a rose, a feather, honey, a whip, olive oil, scissors, a scalpel, a gun and a single bullet. For six hours the artist allowed the audience members to manipulate her body and actions.
Initially, members of the audience reacted with caution and modesty, but as time passed (and the artist remained passive) people began to act more aggressively. As Abramović described it later: "What I learned was that... if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you." ... "I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the audience. Everyone ran away, to escape an actual confrontation."[7]
Works with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen)[edit]
In 1976, after moving to Amsterdam, Abramović met the West German performance artist Uwe Laysiepen, who went by the single name Ulay. When Abramović and Ulay began their collaboration, the main concepts they explored were the ego and artistic identity. This was the beginning of a decade of influential collaborative work. Each performer was interested in the traditions of their cultural heritages and the individual's desire for ritual. Consequently, they decided to form a collective being called "the other", and spoke of themselves as parts of a "two-headed body".[8] They dressed and behaved like twins and created a relationship of complete trust. As they defined this phantom identity, their individual identities became less accessible. In an analysis of phantom artistic identities, Charles Green has noted that this allowed a deeper understanding of the artist as performer, for it revealed a way of "having the artistic self made available for self-scrutiny."[9]
While some critics have explored the idea of a hermaphroditic state of being as a feminist statement, Abramović herself denies considering this as a conscious concept. Her body studies, she insists, have always been concerned primarily with the body as the unit of an individual, a tendency she traces to her parents' military pasts. Rather than concern themselves with gender ideologies, Abramović/Ulay explored extreme states of consciousness and their relationship to architectural space. They devised a series of works in which their bodies created additional spaces for audience interaction. In "Relation in Space" (1976) they ran around the room – two bodies like two planets, mixing male and female energy into a third component called "that self." "Relation in Movement" had the pair drive their car inside of a museum for 365 laps; a black liquid oozed from the car, forming a kind of sculpture, each lap representing a year. (After 365 laps they entered the New Millennium.)
In discussing this phase of her performance history, Abramović has said: "The main problem in this relationship was what to do with the two artists' egos. I had to find out how to put my ego down, as did he, to create something like a hermaphroditic state of being that we called the death self."[10] To create Breathing In/Breathing Out the two artists devised a piece in which they connected their mouths and took in each other's exhaled breaths until they had used up all of the available oxygen. Seventeen minutes after the beginning of the performance they both fell to the floor unconscious, their lungs having filled with carbon dioxide. This personal piece explored the idea of an individual's ability to absorb the life of another person, exchanging and destroying it. In Imponderabilia (1977, reenacted in 2010) two performers, both completely nude, stand in a doorway. The public must squeeze between them in order to pass, and in doing so choose which one of them to face.
In 1988, after several years of tense relations, Abramović and Ulay decided to make a spiritual journey which would end their relationship. Each of them walked the Great Wall of China, starting from the two opposite ends and meeting in the middle. As Abramović described it: "That walk became a complete personal drama. Ulay started from the Gobi Desert and I from the Yellow Sea. After each of us walked 2500 km, we met in the middle and said good-bye".[11] Abramović conceived this walk in a dream, and it provided what she thought was an appropriate, romantic ending to a relationship full of mysticism, energy, and attraction. She later described the process: "We needed a certain form of ending, after this huge distance walking towards each other. It is very human. It is in a way more dramatic, more like a film ending … Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do."[11] Abramović reported that during her walk she was reinterpreting her connection to the physical world and to nature. She felt that the metals in the ground influenced her mood and state of being; she also pondered the Chinese myths in which the Great Wall has been described as a "dragon of energy."
At her 2010 MoMa retrospective, Marina performed The Artist Is Present, in which she shared a period of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Although "They met and talked the morning of the opening",[12] it seems that Marina experienced a strong emotional reaction while seeing Ulay's arrival, reaching to him across the table between them.[13]
Seven Easy Pieces: November 2005[edit]
Beginning on November 9, 2005, Abramović presented Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. On seven consecutive nights for seven hours she recreated the works of five artists first performed in the 60s and 70s, in addition to re-performing her own "Lips of Thomas" and introducing a new performance on the last night. The performances were arduous, requiring both the physical and the mental concentration of the artist. Included in Abramović's performances were recreations of Gina Pane's Self-Portraits, which required lying on a bed frame suspended over a grid of lit candles, and of Vito Acconci's 1972 performance in which the artist masturbated under the floorboards of a gallery as visitors walked overhead. It is argued that Abramović re-performed these works as a series of homages to the past, though many of the performances were altered from their originals.[14]
Here is a full list of the works performed:
- Bruce Nauman's Body Pressure (1974)
- Vito Acconci's Seedbed (1972)
- Valie Export's Action Pants: Genital Panic (1969)
- Gina Pane's The Conditioning (1973)
- Joseph Beuys's How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965)
- Abramović's own Lips of Thomas (1975)
- Abramović's own Entering the Other Side (2005)
The Artist Is Present: March 2010 – May 2010[edit]
From March 14 to May 31, 2010, the Museum of Modern Art held a major retrospective and performance recreation of Abramović's work, the biggest exhibition of performance art in MoMA's history.[15] During the run of the exhibition, Abramović performed "The Artist Is Present," a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat immobile in the museum's atrium while spectators were invited to take turns sitting opposite her.[16] A support group for the "sitters", "Sitting with Marina", was established on Facebook[17] as was the blog "Marina Abramović made me cry".[18] The Italian photographer Marco Anelli took portraits of every person who sat opposite Abramović, which were published on Flickr,[19] compiled in a book[20] and featured in an exhibition at the Danziger Gallery in New York.[21] She said the show changed her life "completely" and claimed that the fact that Lady Gaga came to see it helped boost her popularity among a younger generation: "The public who normally don't go to the museum, who don't give a crap about performance art or don't even know what it is, started coming because of Lady Gaga."[22] Ulay made a surprise appearance at the opening night of the show.[23] In September 2011, a video game version of Abramović's performance was released by Pippin Barr.[24]
In 2009, Abramović was featured in Chiara Clemente's documentary Our City Dreams and a book of the same name. The five featured artists – also including Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, and Nancy Spero – "each possess a passion for making work that is inseparable from their devotion to New York," according to the publisher.[25] Abramović is also the subject of an independent feature documentary movie entitled Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, which is based on her life and performance at her retrospective "The Artist Is Present" at the Museum of Modern Art in 2010. The film was broadcast in the United States on HBO [26] and won a Peabody Award in 2012.[27] In January 2011, Abramović was on the cover of Serbian ELLE, photographed by Dušan Reljin. Kim Stanley Robinson's science fiction novel 2312 mentions a style of performance art pieces known as "abramovics".
Abramović maintains a friendship with actor James Franco, who interviewed her for the Wall Street Journal in 2009.[28] Franco visited Abramović during "The Artist Is Present" in 2010.[29] The two also attended the 2012 Metropolitan Costume Institute Gala together.[30]
In July 2013, Abramović has been working with pop singer Lady Gaga on the singer's third album Artpop. Gaga's work with Abramović, as well as artists Jeff Koons and Robert Wilson, was displayed at an event titled "artRave" on November 10.[31] Furthermore, both have collaborated on projects supporting the Marina Abramović Institute, including Gaga's participation in an 'Abramović Method' video and a non-stop reading of Stanisław Lem's sci-fi novel, Solaris.[32]
A world premiere installation by Abramović was featured at Toronto's Trinity Bellwoods Park as part of the Luminato Festival in June 2013. Abramović is also co-creator, along with Robert Wilson of the theatrical production The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, which had its North American premiere at the festival,[citation needed] and at the Park Avenue Armory in December.[33]
Abramović is creating the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI) in a 33,000 square foot space in Hudson, New York.[34] Visitors to the institute will undergo mind and body cleansing exercises devised by Abramovic.[34] Abramović is a Patron of the London-based Live Art Development Agency.[35]
In June 2014 she presented a new piece at London's Serpentine Gallery called 512 Hours.[36]
In the Sean Kelly Gallery-hosted "Generator," participants are blindfolded and wear sound-cancelling headphones in an exploration of nothingness.
Prizes and awards[edit]
- Golden Lion, XLVII Venice Biennale, 1997
- Niedersächsischer Kunstpreis, 2003
- New York Dance and Performance Awards (The Bessies), 2003
- International Association of Art Critics, Best Show in a Commercial Gallery Award, 2003
- Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2008)[37]
- Honorary Doctorate of Arts, University of Plymouth UK, 25 September 2009
- Cultural Leadership Award, American Federation of Arts, 26 October 2011
- Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Instituto Superior de Arte, Cuba, 14 May 2012
- '13 July' Lifetime Achievement Awards, Podgorica, Montenegro, 1 October 2012
- Berliner Bear (2012; not to be confused with the Silver and Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival; a cultural award of the German tabloid BZ)
Art world[edit]
She spoke up to the press in support of Jeffrey Deitch during his controversial tenure at MOCA Los Angeles, saying, "Jeffrey covers the gray area that nobody else covers, the kind of art on the edge of everything. He's like a thermometer of the new spirit of our time. About the politics ... I don't know much about. I just want to say that the person Jeffrey Deitch is extremely important to the art world."[38]
Books by Abramović and collaborators[edit]
- Artist Body: Performances 1969–1998, artist, Abramović; authors Abramović, Toni Stooss, Thomas McEvilley, Bojana Pejic, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chrissie Iles, Jan Avgikos, Thomas Wulffen, Velimir Abramović; English ed. (Charta, 1998) ISBN 978-88-8158-175-7.
- The Bridge / El Puente, artist Abramović, authors Abramović, Pablo J. Rico, Thomas Wulffen (Charta, 1998) ISBN 978-84-482-1857-7.
- Performing Body, artist Abramović, authors Abramović, Dobrila Denegri (Charta, 1998) ISBN 978-88-8158-160-3.
- Balkan Baroque, (Pierre Coulibeuf, 1999)
- Public Body: Installations and Objects 1965–2001, artist Abramović, authors Celant, Germano, Abramović (Charta, 2001) ISBN 978-88-8158-295-2.
- Marina Abramović, fifteen artists, Fondazione Ratti; co-authors Abramović, Anna Daneri, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Lóránd Hegyi, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Angela Vettese (Charta, 2002) ISBN 978-88-8158-365-2.
- Student Body, artist Abramović, vari; authors Abramović, Miguel Fernandez-Cid, studenti; (Charta, 2002) ISBN 978-88-8158-449-9.
- The House with the Ocean View, artist Abramović; authors Abramović, Sean Kelly, Thomas McEvilley, Cindy Carr, Chrissie Iles, RosaLee Goldberg, Peggy Phelan (Charta, 2004) ISBN 978-88-8158-436-9; the 2002 piece of the same name, in which Abramović lived on three open platforms in a gallery with only water for 12 days, was reenacted in Sex and the City in the HBO series' sixth season.[39]
- Marina Abramović: The Biography of Biographies, artist Abramović; co-authors Abramović, Michael Laub, Monique Veaute, Fabrizio Grifasi (Charta, 2004) ISBN 978-88-8158-495-6.
- Balkan Epic, (Skira, 2006).
- Balkan Erotic Epic, as producer and director, Destricted (Offhollywood Digital, 2006)
- Seven Easy Pieces, artist, Abramović; authors Nancy Spector, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Sandra Umathum, Abramović; (Charta, 2007). ISBN 978-88-8158-626-4.
- Marina Abramović, artist Abramović; authors Kristine Stiles, Klaus Biesenbach, Chrissie Iles, Abramović; (Phaidon, 2008). ISBN 978-07-1484-802-0.
Critical and academic studies[edit]
- Peter Lodermeyer, Karlyn De Jongh, and Sarah Gold, Personal Structures: Time Space Existence Number One, pp. 172 – 177, published by DuMont, Germany 2009, ISBN 978-3-8321-9279-2
- Laurie Anderson, "Marina Abramović," Bomb Summer 2003: 25–31.
- Patrick Anderson, "How to Stage Self-Consumption," So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. pp. 85–109.
- Klaus Biesenbach (ed.), Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, Exhibition Catalog with essays by Klaus Biesenbach, Arthur C. Danto, Chrissie Iles, Nancy Spector, and Jovana Stokić, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010
- Aline Brandauer,. "Marina Abramović: Double Blind." Sculpture, July/August 1995, pp. 23–27.
- A Daneri, et al., (eds.), Marina Abramović, (Charta, 2002)
- Jovan Despotovic, Marina Abramović, 'Fin de siecle' – Balkans way, Borba, Belgrade, September 6–7, 1997, p. 17
- Jennifer Fisher, "Interperformance: The Live Tableaux of Suzanne Lacy, Janine Antoni, and Marina Abramović," Art Journal 56 (1997): 28–33.
- Charles Green, "Doppelgangers and the Third Force: The Artistic Collaborations of Gilbert & George and Marina Abramović/Ulay," Art Journal 59.2: 36–45.
- Shogo Hagiwara, "Art Hurts: Blood and Pain are Abramović's Media," The Daily Yomiuri April 1, 2004 p18.
- Amelia Jones, "'The Artist Is Present': Artistic Re-enactments and the Impossibility of Presence," TDR: The Drama Review 55:1 (2011): 16–45.
- Janet Kaplan, "Deeper and Deeper: Interview with Marina Abramović," Art Journal 58:2 (1999):6–19.
- Zoe Kosmidou, "A Conversation with Marina Abramović," Sculpture Nov. 2001: 27–31.
- Tom Lubbock, "Visual Arts: Caught In the Act; It's Video But Not As We Know It," The Independent September 2, 2003.
- Christina Manzella and Alex Watkins, "Performance Anxiety: Performance Art in Twenty-First Century Catalogs and Archives," Art Documentation Spring 2011: 28–32.
- Thomas McEvilley, "Performing the Present Tense," Art in America April 2003: 114–117; 153.
- Thomas McEvilley, "Art, Love, Friendship: Marina Abramović and Ulay, Together & Apart," book, Documentext (McPherson & Company), 2010.
- Asami Nagai, "Art in Harmony with Nature," The Daily Yomiuri July 24, 2003, p. 13.
- Anna Novakov, "Point of Access: Marina Abramović's 1975 Performance Role Exchange," Woman's Art Journal Fall 2003/Winter 2004: 31–35.
- Jennifer Phipps, "Marina Abramović/Ulay/Ulay/Marina Abramović," Art & Text 3 (1981).
- Theresa Smalec, "Not What It Seems: The Politics of Re-Performing Vito Acconci's Seedbed," PMC: Postmodern Culture 17 (1) 2006[40]
- Chris Thompson and Katarina Weslien, "PURE RAW: Performance, Pedagogy, and (Re)presentation," PAJ 82 (2006):29–50.
- Mechtild Widrich, "Process and Authority. Marina Abramović's 'Freeing the Horizon' and Documentarity," Grey Room 47, May 2012: 80–97.
- "Writing Art," Art Monthly 1999 230:13–17.
See also[edit]
- Avant-garde
- Experimental theatre
- Fluxus
- Richard Foreman
- Happening
- Dick Higgins
- Intermedia
- Allan Kaprow
- Elizabeth LeCompte
- Ontological-Hysteric Theater
- Richard Schechner
- Speculations: An Essay on the Theater
- The Flea Theater
- The Wooster Group
- Mac Wellman
- ^ Judith Thurman, Profiles, "Walking Through Walls," The New Yorker, March 8, 2010, p. 24.
- ^ "Marina Abramović". Lacan.com. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ Quoted in Thomas McEvilley, "Stages of Energy: Performance Art Ground Zero?" in Abramović, Artist Body, [Charta, 1998].
- ^ http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/rhythm-10-2/
- ^ Kaplan, 9
- ^ Daneri, 29
- ^ Daneri, 29; and 30
- ^ Quoted in Green, 37
- ^ Green, 41
- ^ Kaplan, 14
- ^ a b Daneri, 35
- ^ Klaus Biesenbach on the AbramovicUlay Reunion[dead link]
- ^ "Video of Marina Abramović and Ulay at MoMa retrospective". Youtube.com. 2012-12-15. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ Marina Abramović, BLOUINARTINFO, November 9, 2005, retrieved April 23, 2008
- ^ Kino, Carol (March 10, 2010). "A Rebel Form Gains Favor. Fights Ensue.", The New York Times. Retrieved April 16, 2010.
- ^ Arboleda, Yazmany (May 28, 2010). "Bringing Marina Flowers". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on January 23, 2011. Retrieved June 16, 2010.
- ^ Facebook.com[dead link]
- ^ "Marina Abramović made me cry" "[1]"
- ^ https://secure.flickr.com/photos/themuseumofmodernart/sets/72157623741486824/detail/
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Marco-Anelli-Portraits-Presence-Abramovic/dp/8862082495
- ^ http://www.danzigergallery.com/exhibition/marco-anelli
- ^ "I've Always Been A Soldier", The Talks. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
- ^ "Klaus Biesenbach on the AbramovicUlay Reunion". Blouinartinfo. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
- ^ Gray, Rosie (September 16, 2011). "Pippin Barr, Man Behind the Marina Abramovic Video Game, Weighs in on His Creation.", The Village Voice'. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
- ^ Clemente, Chiara, and Dodie Kazanjian, Our City Dreams, Charta webpage. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
- ^ Marina Abramović to be the subject of a movie, "MARINA" the film, 2010
- ^ 72nd Annual Peabody Awards, May 2013.
- ^ "James Franco, Marina Abramović Talk Performance Art, Eating Gold, And Dessert". Huffington Post. 2010-05-11. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ "James Franco Meets Marina Abramović At MoMA". Huffington Post. 2010-05-10. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ Busacca, Larry (2012-05-07). "The Met Costume Institute Gala 2012". Omg.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ "ARTPOP". Lady Gaga. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ "Lady Gaga Gets Completely Naked to Support the Marina Abramovic Institute". E! Online UK. 2013-08-07. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ "'The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic' Opera Arrives At Armory In December". Huffington Post. 2013-02-19. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ a b Lyall, Sarah (19 October 2013). "For Her Next Piece, a Performance Artist Will Build an Institute". The New York Times.
- ^ http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/about_us/patrons.html[dead link]
- ^ Mark Savage (11 June 2014). "Marina Abramovic: Audience in tears at 'empty space' show". BBC News. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
- ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 1879. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ "How Do You Solve a Problem Like MOCA?". Vanity Fair. March 2013.
- ^ "Gatecrasher" (staff writer), "Kim Cattrall and performance artist Marina Abramovic are unlikely 'Sex and the City' buddies", New York Daily News, April 18, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
- ^ Smalec, Theresa (September 2006). "Not What It Seems: The Politics of Re-Performing Vito Acconci's Seedbed (1972)". Postmodern Culture 17 (1). doi:10.1353/pmc.2007.0009.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marina Abramović.
|Wikiversity has learning materials about Performance art
- Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present at MoMA
- Marina Abramović: 512 Hours at the Serpentine Galleries
- 1946 births
- Living people
- American people of Montenegrin descent
- People from Belgrade
- American contemporary artists
- Women performance artists
- Body art
- Montenegrin expatriates in the United States
- Amsterdam artists
- American women performance artists
- Faculty of the École des Beaux-Arts
- Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
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Presented by The Boston Conservatory at Studio 401 at 31 Hemenway Street
April 15, 2012
An evening of Jewish music by Spanish, Italian and Turkish composers for soprano, tenor and piano. Featuring Marti Epstein, piano, with guest artists Lisa Saffer, soprano, and Cantor Gastón Bogomolni, tenor.
Studio 401 at 31 Hemenway Street
31 Hemenway Street
Boston, MA 02115
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ARK Challenge Readies for Little Rock Expansion; Warwick Sabin to Lead
by Mark Carter
Posted 1/21/2014 09:37 am
Updated 11 months ago
Warwick Sabin, executive director of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, will direct the ARK Challenge business accelerator when it expands to Little Rock this year.
The ARK Challenge is one of several startup boot camps across the country funded by a $37 million federal Jobs & Innovation Accelerator Challenge grant. The ARK Challenge has completed two rounds in Fayetteville, the most recent naming three winners last fall.
Going forward, state and private funding will fund the ARK Challenge in Fayetteville and Little Rock. The Arkansas Economic Development Commission will kick in $300,000 for operating costs, the same amount it provided as prize money for previous ARK Challenge winners. Innovate Arkansas, a joint program of Winrock International and AEDC that helps startups under the state's Accelerate Arkansas initiative, plans to contribute $800,000 raised through private investors.
Sabin is contracting directly with Winrock to run the ARK Challenge in Little Rock.
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Administered by Innovate Arkansas, the ARK Challenge is a three-month boot camp for tech-based startups. The first two installments have focused on industries clustered in northwest Arkansas, including retail, food processing, and transportation and logistics. Organizers have said the central Arkansas version likely will focus on health care, "big data" and banking.
While no formal dates have been set, the first Little Rock accelerator will be held under the same format as the first two Fayetteville installments and is scheduled to start in the late summer or early fall.
The next Fayetteville installment, directed by Jeannette Balleza Collins, is expected to begin this spring and include five to seven tech startups that are more fully developed than the early-stage ventures featured at previous challenges.
Innovate Arkansas is working with the Little Rock Tech Park Authority Board to lease space for central Arkansas' ARK Challenge in the 100 block of Main Street in downtown Little Rock.
The Innovation Hub is the nonprofit organization that plans to open the Argenta Innovation Center in downtown North Little Rock this year. The center will include the Silver Mine co-working space, the Launch Pad maker space and the already existing Art Connection creative space.
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Earth Beat, 18 November 2011. Home sweet home - and all its accoutrements. Ever thought about downsizing? We speak to a woman who reduced her living space from 1,500 square feet to just 84. Plus, what do you do when the land your home sits on has been slowly disappearing for the last twenty years?
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Seven years ago, Dee Williams decided to get rid of her three-bedroom house and replace it with an 84 square foot mini-home that she built herself.
She takes us on a tour (click for video) and talks to host Marnie Chesterton about how living in a small space has freed her up, both time-wise, and financially.
Due to her home's size and insulation properties heating costs are tiny - around $8 a month in winter (more photos below).
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Project Reclamation exhibit
Project Reclamation is a visual art exhibition to help raise awareness and educate the community about Mountaintop Removal and its effects on the environment, society, politics and more. The exhibit, on display now through Jan. 12 at the Carnegie Center for Art and History, 201 E. Spring St., New Albany, Ind., features artwork by various local artists. A grassroots effort started by Louisville artist Mary Margaret Sparks in partnership with Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, the exhibition features a variety of mediums including photography, sculpture, fiber, printmaking, video and illustration. Visit the center Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For information visit www.carnegiecenter.org or call 812.944.7336.
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Date: Dec 13, 2012
Starts: 10:00 AM | Ends: 5:30 PM
Carnegie Center for Art and History,
201 E. Spring St.,
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Website: www.carnegiecenter.org
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Makes 4 servings
active time
35 minutes
total time
35 minutes
Ingredientsadd to shopping list
- 1 (3-ounce) package thinly sliced pancetta (Italian bacon), chopped
- 3 tablespoons butter, divided
- 1 cup (scant) sliced shallots (3 large)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons minced fresh rosemary, divided
- 2 cups mashed peeled red-skinned sweet potatoes (yams)
- 3 1/2 cups (or more) low-salt chicken broth
- 1 cup (1/3-inch) cubes country-style sourdough bread
Sauté pancetta in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat until crisp, about 5 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer pancetta to paper towels.
Add 1 1/2 tablespoons butter to drippings in same saucepan; add shallots and reduce heat to medium. sauté until shallots are soft and golden, about 4 minutes. Stir in 1 teaspoon rosemary, then mashed sweet potatoes and 31/2 cups broth. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer 10 minutes to blend flavors, adding more broth by 1/4 cupfuls to thin soup, if desired. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Puree soup in blender or processor if necessary.
Meanwhile, melt remaining 11/2 tablespoons butter in small skillet over medium-high heat. Add bread cubes and remaining 1/2 teaspoon rosemary and sauté until croutons are crisp and golden, about 3 minutes.
Ladle soup into bowls. Top with croutons and pancetta and serve.
my notes
Nutrition Informationper serving (4 servings) POWERED BY Edamam
- Calories340
- Carbohydrates32 g (11%)
- Fat20 g (31%)
- Protein11 g (21%)
- Saturated Fat9 g (46%)
- Sodium365 mg (15%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber4 g (15%)
- Monounsaturated Fat7 g
- Cholesterol37 mg (12%)
recipe at a glance
type: On a Budget, Quick & Easy, Soup/Stew
main ingredients: Rosemary, Sweet Potato/Yam, Bacon, Potato, Bread
cuisine: American
holiday/celebration: Fall


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Differences in the power curves of the two motors mean that the system only outputs a maximum of 191 horsepower before the drivetrain loses, but that's still a fairly decent amount of power for a midsize sedan. Torque numbers for the electric engine are unpublished, but the gasoline engine outputs 136 pound-feet by itself.
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According to the EPA's estimates, the Fusion Hybrid should average 41 mpg in the city and 36 on the highway. In our testing, we tended to hover around the 36 mpg mark, but we're no hypermilers. Our testing covered equal parts city and highway miles with a few performance runs and high-speed freeway merges thrown in for good measure.
While we're talking about performance, it should be noted that the Fusion is no slouch. Bear in mind that the hybrid is tuned for high mpgs and not low quarter-mile times, but when you need power to merge with freeway-speed traffic, the Fusion won't let you down. Of course, you'll have to factor the eCVT's sort of sluggish downshift when you do and the combined gas and electric mills will protest your acceleration with one of the worst-sounding engine notes of all time, but you'll get where you need to be.
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It's week four and it's the last week with this workout – so kick some ass (your own)
As I said last week, I want to see an even better improvement in performance – shorter rest periods, more reps per 5 min, etc..
Get to work.
5 Minutes of the following 4 Mobility Exercises:
1. Circles – Starting with the ankles and moving all the way up to your neck, gently make circles with all of your joints – 10 revolutions each joint in each direction
2. Rolling Like A Ball
4. Lateral Lunges
5 Minutes of the following Muscle Warm-Up Exercises
I am going to list a bunch of exercises. You choose which ones you want to do….remembering that the goal is to warm up the muscles and make them pliable and ready to handle the following workout
Bench Step Ups
Lateral Bench Hops
DB Push Press
Narrow Grip Pulldowns
Deadlift – Full or Partial DL/Rack Pull (knee height)
BW Jump Squat
Cable/Band Woodchop – horizontal
Face Pull
Repeat one of the first 4 Supersets – your choice
Repeat one of the first 4 Supersets – your choice
10 minutes of DIY
Stretching – minimum 10 minutes
Focus on the muscles you just worked, plus the ones that are tight on just about everyone….hip flexors, calves, hamstrings, chest, neck & traps
So, that takes care of Monday and Wednesday.
I'll have another workout for you on Friday
Thurs, Sat & Sun are up to you.
It all depends on your goals
You can also rest on those off days. These 3 workouts are pretty intense and will do a lot on their own.
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60 thoughts on "So Totally Aries"
Oh Bette scared me as a child. Never understood Crawford or Harpo Marx either. Isn't Joan an Aries too? Love them all as an adult though. So ruthless seeming those two!
I used to really struggle with Arien energies in others, then I totally fell head over for one (he's Haute – pun intended) and now I'm seeing them all in a brand new Light.
Go Aries!
Wow have never seen her young – thought it was drew barrymore. I've seen her in one thing is she in that one with the guy who breaks down and then moves in to the house with the crazy drunk dame with the butler and someone ends up face down in the pool? Am SO not into musicals so never really seen her movies. My best friend through late teens + 20s who was a model & struggling actress was an aries tho – and now you mention Bette it's all coming together – strong purposeful woman but a totally loyal friend until it was inconvenient for her then you had to get the hell outta her way. We were the perfect team, had opposite taste in men altho whenever she broke up with one they would say I was what they liked most about her – she was just great in bed but I was the one they could stay up all night and talk to apparently – I had a studio in the house we shared and worked at night, they would come out after she'd drained them of their life force and talk to me – so I ended up with a lot of lovely male friends because of her men eating ways. One of them is still one of my bffs.
Wow, your friend sounds intense. I experienced a similar situation with my Aries flatmate. What's your sign Whatev?
Libra – yes intense – were you like their human handbag always around for the pre-seduction and then you would have to conveniently finding your own way home? I mean luckily I'm independent and that was never a problem but when you look at it in retrospect you realise there's some things that seemed normal at the time that just wouldn't cut it in a friendship now. And then there was the picking up the pieces when it was over – either her pieces or theirs depending on who it was that did the deed. She was very loyal when she chose to be tho. If you were sick she'd feed you etc. You are a leo living with an aries? That's a pretty crazy power combo that one.
My Aries best friend, (known her from birth- we were born in the same hospital 5 days apart)
Totally just threw me over. After I did the flowers for her wedding, supported her through her first kid, a bad relationship, and just generally tried to be a good friend.
Can you believe she actually found a replacement friend? Someone with the same name, same skills, hobbies and looks but with more money and contacts? It turns out she was competing with me over the past year for the friendship, but I didn't clue in. Her parting words were "Maybe somewhere down the road we will be friends again"
I am bitter. It really, really hurts.
So, short version- she as an Aries, is like that, I as an Aries, am not. 5 days difference.
I have Cappy rising tho, she don't- I think that might be it. I got the boring, grounded qualities of Cappy, not the ruthless bit.
That's horrible – my aries did shitty things like that but always came running back – I was actually pleased for the breaks between drinks and never cared too much that she had befriended another – always knew they'd get sick of her really quickly cos she was so high maintenance. You however being her kind are probably not going to recover and forgive so quickly are you my friend? Money and contacts? She has some kind of malefic venusian thing natally and venus retro has really sent her off the deep end? She finally lost it? Is crap your feelings are so hurt but if that's how shallow she is once your wounds have been salved I'm thinking the "she did me a favour" phase will come quite quickly. Did she "finalise" it today when venus got to libra? Mean – is her parting comment some kind of back-up plan in case it backfires? A bet each way. Am sorry you've been treated so badly BSA. Is RANK. You got remedies on board?
Oh, thanks Whatevs….
I really needed the sympathy today, you have no idea…. I guess I was keeping it inside and it just needed out…!
I don't have remedies….how would those actually work, really?
We'd been power struggling over the past few years, a bit, on my part I was tired of always calling her, everything had to be at her house, etc, etc. Her reply was- but I always call you back… It made me feel second best….this new girl is all.. "oh of course it should be at your house,you have the nicest house"
She has a Toro moon, but I suspect Scorp rising.
She finally sent me an email, less than month after I moved to a new place cause of my crazy housemate, and my beloved 14 yr old kitty died and my great aunt (the month before, while I was moving)
I think she was tidying me up- because now she is pregnant again- found out yesterday. I felt like she purposefully picked the timing of her email to get power over me…sad, but true.
It hurts.
I already have had the "she did me a favour feeling." It is sooper- strong in my soul. Totally. I feel like her sending me that email did me the biggest favour. No regrets. It was just so final for me (not necc for her) It's just struggling with my heart. y'know? I have known her forever.
Gawd. I feel way better having just got that out. Thanks Whatev.
Truly. For asking….Aries are not all tough, yaknow?
Thought a first glance it was Drew Barrymore doing Retro.
'She's got Bette Davis eyes'…………(Kim Carnes song).
A true Diva.
yeah the resemblance is striking.
Whatevs x
Sorry to bang on about this, but while I am not sure where Anonymous is coming from with their information, I do feel also like sharing the fact that things are not going great to you lovely bloggers who might be interested.
There appear to be 2 main scenarios (3 if you include the US derivatives & mortgage crisis):
1) high govt debt (US/Japan/Euro) -> NO CUT BACKS -> money printing -> inflation -> hyper inflation -> currency collapse
2) high govt debt (US/Japan/Euro) -> austerity programs -> high taxes -> low growth -> deflation -> high interest rate debt spiral -> money printing -> inflation -> hyper inflation -> currency collapse
It is worth looking at ways to protect yourself that don't rely on banks or cash.
(Getting out of debt asap is always a good idea though isn't it!) Well there isn't much to do but watch the cookie crumble, so that's all.
You have all been so kind and generous towards me so thank you for indulging my little rant here. It's totally out of gratitude I write this as I am hesitant to misuse the wonderful Mystic's blog by writing out of context to the themes presented.
Sure, I didn't mean to be dismissive, this information is coming together on many levels and through many different people. I will listen to it when I get a chance! Best wishes.
I raise my glass to your china theory. They've been doing all kinds of things not just economically for the last few years that we seldom hear about but if you put the disparate elements together they are a HUGE force to be reckoned with. Thanks to you both for sharing your thoughts – things are most certainly coming together in many ways at the moment.
When capitalism was invented in the age of enlightenment this situation was predicted by one of the economic bigwigs of the day can't remember his name. A swiss guy anyhow – is amazing to be seeing the things I've studied happening before my very eyes. The fall. I mean it's obviously not ideal but we're in it and there's no way of getting out just softening the blow as best we can in our own small ways and not living life in fear is the only way cos fear isn't going to change anything.
Am apprehensive but shunning fear as best I can! Good to be aware and prepared as if for a bushfire or Uranus charging about in Aries Clothing is all. Forewarned is forearmed! Well if you act on the info anyway…
There's some really interesting astro sharemarket sites around, I had a phase of watching them in 2007 (luckily) and it's really interesting – i mean if you're into that kind of thing : o) I have phases of interest in it.
"when ya got nothin ya got nothing to lose", i'll start singing dolly parton – coat of many colours, and have a little chuckle… But, no, I getcha, Im not that ignorant, I know that capitalism will fall, as it always does, and the resources it uses to prop its self up with are finite, and the ridiculous wealth it creates for such a small small percentage of the world, is at the expense of social and ecological justice, and a lot of people will suffer from the greed of the west. And yes it must be scary for peeps who are so dependent on their money for security, but how wonderful if it actually exposes the truth of global financial crap and the destructive relationship it has with earth.
I don't feel like reading financials right now but I recently had access to information that share traders and investment bankers use to make decisions (thanks venus retro in the 6th for THAT shit gig) and they're all about a double dip recession being imminent.
As soon as Masonic symbols from Washington to Miami on maps
along with Homer Simpson's masonic hand signals, they
lost me…but hey did listen to it til that point.
All this 'inside information' just results in aquired helplessness.
I bank with Bank Mattress
Bank Mattress a reliable bank – just make sure the deposit isn't in paper money – precious metals better (but uncomfortable to sleep on of course!). Lol Pegs.
LIke the Princess & the Pea?
Hee hee, depends on your resources.. Prefer to have more than a pea's worth, but it's a start!
monsanto are the most evil fuqers on earth if I believed in the devil I'd be looking to monsanto's president to see what he looked like. This is a shitload of controversial information you're deluging us with anon – are you having some kind of mofo of a transit?
@ Anonymous above: What a load of toxic misinformation you are anonymously dumping here. There is more naturally occurring Aluminium (Al) in most soil types than you could ever "spray into the sky". And it is not toxic to all plants as you suggest. Your conclusion that "Soon people wont be able to grow their own food they will have to buy from monsanto….." = A LOAD OF TOTAL CRAP! Plants vary widely in how they take up and process Al. An Al-resistance gene could in fact be quite useful to allow production of some cereal crops on marginal acidic soils. Ever thought of that? Who are you anyway to be sprouting off such factoids? Identify yourself. And while you are at it, what soil type is your home sitting on?
This is not "controversial information" that we should all act on. Rather it is a deluge of paranoid, data-free, airhead, fear-mongering rubbish. And maybe a bit of self absorbed attention seeking & time wasting as well? How unusual. Monsanto, the banks, the government et al are not the boogy men threatening our planet. It is blithering airheads who don't pull their weight and spend precious resources & energy crapping on to each other all day rather than ACTUALLY doing, fixing or making something. If you don't like a Monsanto product, simply buy something else or grow your own. It's not that complicated. There are no conspiracy theories involved. You do not need to alarm others with your reasons; just do your own thing and shut up about it. We don't need to know.
And, finally, WTF have any of these comments got to do with astrology? It's not even astrology-lite. Or astro-funny. Or astro-enlightening. Or even vaguely related to the topic Mystic has posted about above. No wonder I don't visit or contribute to the comments much any more. Can't breathe for all the stale air being sprayed about.
Should've said ex f/mate. And yes, I was all those things – the handbag, the cheerleader, babysitter. Yet, she was never really supportive of me. She betrayed me many times but we were young and I forgave her quickly. I wouldnt want to know her now. I dont mean to offend other Aries friends here when I say SOME Aries are pure energy vampires.
LOL you're back! So much has happened since you've been gone. All the signs are energy vampires in their own ways tho – just different kinds of bleeding techniques. Leo's are always so quick to forgive and smile radiantly in the face of crap – it's one of your best qualities. I guess learning to balance it with not forgiving too much and sticking up for yourself is the key. I forgave my aries for years as well – Librans can see the good and the bad and still maintain the connection without letting the bad get in the way – it's a kind of rational constantly weighing it up scenario. It takes so long to learn these things about yourself when you think someone is your friend tho. The thing is would you trade the experience? They've taught you something so it's not for nothing? And Ariens are so much fun when they're on the ups.
Constant forgiving was the boo-boo I made, to.
Over looking stuff to be "loyal" .
Still waiting for any kind of return of that kind of loyalty….
Have you ever considered that by taking the kind of action you suggest en masse you will be actively creating the exact conditions for the destabilising crash you're warning against?
Paranoid fear mongering and scare tactics are never the way forward.
And there I was thinking it was actually a plot on monsantos part to spray aluminium everywhere so everyone would get alzheimers and forget what had happened. I mean it makes sense they would ramp THAT up while neptune was retro conjunct chiron.
Before work this morning looked up Bette's chart. Her eyes very Scorp rising, no?
Mentioned here before that me (Aries) and older Aries sis could have been "What ever happened to Sweet Baby Jane" with one of us prancing about in front of the mirror (Bette, Aries) while plotting the other's (Joan Crawford, Aries) demise.
We are only two years apart and while I never sought her demise, we did have a parting of the waves. Leo Mother never understood how two Aries could be so different.
And then "Hush Hush Sweet Charloette", starring Bette. About six or seven years old, parents took me to see it in the theatre. Heads rolling down the stairs (Aries rules the head). Had my coat over head Not a good idea when child has Moon in 8th.
Am truly sorry and quite mortified if my comments irritated or bored anyone excessively. It was truly written with intent to share something. I was really keen to hear astrologically related thoughts and was not wanting to be a panic merchant at all! Please forgive my bad judgement – promise not to blog with a temperature forthwith.. Sincere apologies… (insert embarrassed face).
Darling Andromeda, it's okay.
Song I'm listening to this evening….
Great song Sweetpea!
Love it & sooo resonates at the moment…
Now if only the so called leaders of the world can 'breathe' and get a fuqing massage.
I used to love that song! Listened to it a lot when it came out (2002/3?). Haven't heard it in ages Was nice to hear again. Thank you
Michelle a Cancer. Cute that she has that little crab in the video and ocean scene. I wonder if she included that cuz of her astro?
Had three hour lunch/brunch with Cancer, Scorp rising, Sagg Moon daughter this last Sunday at a Mex restaurant to catch up. She requested the lunch and then I did the 77 mile (each way) drive. What the hell was up with that? (joke ) She's Vegan and does rock climing with her Gem boyfriend. She's transfering to uni soon. I love her SOOOOO much. And he and she will eventually be getting married so she's starting to dream. She's 24.
As far as Aries goes, everyone needs a safe place to weep. x
calm down lovey you were just being your usual even tempered lovely self. You didn't post the original sillyness. No need to take things on board which aren't yours.
I view any forthcoming changes in the market/economy/government as a positive force and the result of the growing consciousness of human beings. Our system is unbalanced. Our economic values are disconnected from our sense of what constitutes principled, truthful and loving behaviour if you accept yourself as a global citizen. Whatever market corrections occur will be necessary ones to help us live more authentically and happily. That's what Pluto in Cap is all about methinks (with a lil help from our graceful friend Libra in Saturn). No need to panic and run for the hills. Be part of the solution. Do your little bit. Perfection not required. You're more useful being "part of" than hiding in a bunker eating canned baked beans
You weren't the over the top one and you didn't bring it up you were simply responding to stimulus in an area that you're interested in. You were led to water and you drank. Is nothing to stress about in the grand scheme of things. Monsanto ARE evil tho : o) You just won another sub or something – awesome!
Do go read about China's astro as well as western tho if you're into the astro of this thing – is fascinating, it was a phase of reading about chinese astrology that made me look at sharemarket astro in the first place and the aqua and I had minimum impact during the GFC as a result of using the astro to make choices. There's some guy who's mapped the rises and falls in gold and silver and other precious metals to the astro cycles since gold and silver prices were indexed. Mars retro is pivotal. He used to be a share trader on wall street who became an astrologer. Really interesting to have informed insight. Soz can't remember name but he's easily found using key words.
Thank you guys, I really appreciate you writing these comments, you cheered me up a lot. Nice song Sweetle Beetle!
I like to blame my Scorpio Moon, I get really obsessed with stuff and can't let go! I totally agree with your thoughts Prowln (apart from the bit where I am 'even tempered' lol) and assure you I am not a bunker type personality, the food is awful for starters.
Will read on whatevs, I think you are talking about Arch Crawford? Thanks, I won something? OMG, I feel really embarrassed now..
Also, I have moments where my faith in astrology wavers, so learning about all this has been really affirming for my interest in astrology, partly why I expressed this stuff here. You guys are sweet, xx.
Andromeda you didn't irritate – like many, logged onto Mystic for a morning hit prior to being slammed by the day & there was this stream that went forever (now impossible to follow as posting times are all out of sequence) & felt like I'd hit a conspiracy theory blog or something …. all before coffee
Good for you for "coming back" .
I didn't read the original comments, but I am sure they were a bore. (Bluntness)
And I'm also equally sure they were intended just as you said….
I think it's one of the best Arien traits, very haute…to have the courage to return, after a potential faux pas snafu…..
Bad judgement? totally Aries…rookie mistake, I like to call it….
Kudos, kiddo!
my comments weren't really deleted but I did think about signing off tbh.. No Aries in my chart, I do have Venus/Saturn conj in the 1st house, but they are in Cancer?!
most of people faith blindly on astrology , horoscope for just mind satisfaction . i think some time its working but can't depend on that .
anyway nice blog …well written
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