Logo design

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi >< what message do yew spy in this anagram typography? Hint : designed for an aptly named festival in Oregon >< art brain delight challenge to form a heart mirror from this word >< created to remind each other to seek this state of relating in all interaction >< #typography #handlettering #originals #original #design #designer #handdrawntype #handdrawing #graphicdesign #logo #logomaker #inks #handcarved #stamp #stamps #stamping #rumi #anagram #visualart #visualanagram #mirror #mirrordesign #art #artist #logodesigner #logodesigns #patch #ispy #handmade

19.7.28.Agapolis.AIR

Artists & Building 180

Building 180 and Agapolis are excited to present an evening of multi-media artist showcases, featuring AB180’s third cohort of Artist in Residents.

Four talented, multidisciplinary artists have spent the last two months creating impressive works of art while living and working onsite at Agapolis. The event will involve multiple performances across the 22-acre property, including the swimming pool.

video

all photos {photographer selection to come later}

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nUaV4i6g0r0Vx-wLWNtvNdANQy2W5rxn?usp=sharing

{RAW files available as well, please inquire}

About the Artists & Work

Johnna Arnold

(johnnaarnold.com)
Johnna is an artist, photographer, educator, and urban farmer based in Oakland, CA. Johnna’s work revolves around her interest in the infrastructure that supports our post-industrial lifestyle, and how a small, fleshy human such as herself can relate to this vast system. Her project at Agapolis, Imagination is Everything, straddles the line between photography and social practice. She is designing and building a hut to facilitate meditation exercises. After participants experience a guided meditation, she collaborates with them to capture a photo that reflects their mental state during the meditation. In an era when we are continually deluged with information, re-creating participant’s imagined spaces creates a portal for working in reverse; solidifying otherworldly ideas and unrealistic imaginations.

Taro Hattori

(tarohattori.com)
Taro is an installation artist and teaches at California College of the Arts, originally from Tokyo, Japan and currently lives in Richmond, CA. His recent works focus on relating sculpture and human interaction, incorporating music and/or conversations as integral parts of the creative process. In tribute to Ohlone culture, Taro’s current project is a participatory project in which the audience will be able to listen to traditional Ohlone songs while underwater in a swimming pool. He is interested in creating a poetic experience to help understand the history that lies beneath the ground and the land we live on.

Ala Mohseni

(alamohseni.com | vimeo.com/alamohseni)
Ala Mohseni was born in Tehran, Iran. His career began in the theater and then advertising, in the early 1990s, before moving on to filmmaking in 2004 with his first film “The Life” about a pioneer of Iranian cinema. At Agapolis, Ala is producing RED minus 2, an experimental multimedia performance staging based on the life of Reza Abdoh, an avant-garde Iranian playwright and director, who died of AIDS in 1995 at the age of 32. This project is the first stage of a development plan for an experimental feature-length film about Abdoh. The project will be a contemporary performance by three to five performers inspired by Iranian traditional theater genres including Ta’zieh, Takht-e Hozi, Zoorkhaneh rituals, etc.

Taliesin Gilkes-Bower

Taliesin Gilkes-Bower (realmsmanifest.com)
Taliesin is an interdisciplinary artist who works in video, photography, sculpture, and sound art. His work investigates how communities respond creatively to oppression and making complex invisible power structures visible. He is currently working on a project about the relationship between the DEA, CIA, dancehall, and Jamaican political violence. Entitled Orion Sound Station (17° 58′ N 76°48′ W), the project is a multichannel video, photography and sculptural sound system installation that explores the intersection of Jamaican dancehall culture and the DEA and CIA’s history of intervention into endemic Jamaican political violence. The installation also serves as a platform for live musical performances, and pre-recorded audio pieces from a globally diverse group of artists engaging complex narratives about the intersection and complexity of African and Afro-Diasporic culture with state violence.

{writeup from facebook event}

Put.your.roots.down

{ put your roots down : put your feet on the ground : you can hear what she says if you listen } x2 it’s the sound of the water as it moves across the stores : it’s the same sound as the blood in your body as it moves across your bones : { are you listening } x5 repeat in z round

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Remembering voice & sharing song spurs deep social medicine : practicing voice in choice : comfort in communication = ease of expression

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#heartsong #saunashare #WAplay #putyourrootsdown #medicinemusic #medicinesong #saunasong #acapella #witchsong #grounding #ecosensual #bloodwater #waterblood #campfiresong #singmore #findyourvoice #dailysingoff #singeveryday

This valentine’s day I fell in love…with my body


This valentine’s day I fell in love…with my body
A long-love felt in a new way is coming home to the remembered deliciousness of a familiar favorite flavor. Just when I thought I knew my body like the back of my hand, the truth is that I had taken a steadfast & strong relationship for granted.
This valentine’s day I fell in love with my body again, a reawakened appreciation made possible thanks to the IMBŌDHI-suit.
Previous Perspective
Before the bodysuit I was of the mindset that free movement required loose clothing, but found that the extra fabric caught on limbs, bound below bodies, tearing holes with audibly dramatic cartoonish rips. As I continued to try to expand range of motion through shrouding myself in layers, I would always have a portion of my mind concerned about the state of my garments. This segment of my mind monitored my movement, constantly adjusting to accommodate the limitation of my garb, this concerned circuitry reminding me to preserve the longevity of the fabric forms I robe myself in. This mental energy space fluctuates in size depending on the fragility & complexity of what I wear, and its evaluation consistently takes me out of the immediacy of dedicating myself completely to sensing embodied experience. For the first time in my life this voice was silenced in the IMBŌDHI-suit.

Embodiment Enhanced
This futuristic form & fabric functions as a tool for evolved embodiment. The makeup of the material allows me to slip, slide & squirm like an eel rather than sticking to surfaces, chafing, or sogging (soggy, sodden, sopping, waterlogged dragging) in the perennially pooling sweat of other textiles. The bodysuit breathes with me as I sweat, moisture rapidly evaporating and leaving me dry & spry. I am protected in my slippery smoothness, feeling my folds sailing across each other as waves in water. The seamless sensation of gliding in a bodysuit unlocks the ultimate extension of physical movement, naturally inspiring the explorative expansion of edges. Supple, I follow full-figured lines through to complete rotations rebounding upon themselves – lengthening form flowing through tips of limbs. IMBŌDHIED, I am liberated as distilled essence – a well suited somatic superhero. The bodysuit serves as an encouraging physical reminder to move – inspiring stretching through freeing flexibility in accessibility of diving low, as nothing drags on the ground even in a low squat/crotch crouch {shoutout to my Squat Squad!}.

Body Bravery
I will bashfully admit I was shy putting the bodysuit on at first and did so alone and without a mirror – for as a second skin it reveals all – there are no folds to hide behind or clever tricks of design to conceal curvaceousness. Fortunately, the stretch of the bodysuit feels like a best friend highlighting assets – slimming & supporting through squeezing to create a streamlined waveform. I felt like a dolphin being caressed by a crew of compassionate cephalopods.
The suit made me feel safe to show my whole. Sure, I still had feelings of striving for more suppleness, slenderness, tone, litheness…but the bodysuit supported me in pursuing these goals through compressive presence – enmeshed in a full body hug. The suit was an accepting and supportive shadow, enveloping me in an embrace sans lines constricting or cutting across the smooth silhouette of my sinuous shape. I was surrounded – suffused in support, cradled in the fullness of my form.
I found freedom in restriction – through gentle compression & containment the possibilities of my movement were unlocked, & suddenly new realms opened to me in liquid limitlessness of limb. Stretching in ways that would normally tear seams, in the bodysuit movement is a dream. Rediscovering my personal physical playground, I explore the movement suited to my makeup, moving in the way I am made for – writhing, wriggling, & worming around ~ entangled in a contact bodywork dance.
In my first flirtation with the bodysuit, I was initially hesitant about ‘wardrobe malfunctions’ as I am currently curvaceous. My first extended fling with the suit evaporated my fears during a marathon 12+ hour movement performance art event. As I sweated, inverted, twerked, & cavorted, all initial concerns about inadvertently flashing others & having bounding breasts or buttocks reveal themselves were banished & I bared my heart & hinie with great gusto.

Physical Philosophy
I become a different person in the bodysuit as my connection to myself, others, & my environment discovers new depths. The super-suit is a power up, & as I become activated in this attire, I unlock advanced forms of interaction & behavior. The suit is a minimalistic barrier protecting from the grabby nature of skin on skin adhesion & the social baggage of nudity. Although in this garment I am nearly naked, revealed, nonthreatening, & vulnerable, I am simultaneously shielded in my slippery suit of amor armor {love armor}.
The IMBŌDHI-suit is a woven wish – expanding potential in inner/inter-personal relating. This spell suit is a magi-vestment steering possibility in the direction of connection. Suiting up is a radical experience that lubricates the relationship between self/environment, expanding range of motion, & facilitating easeful dynamic play with others. In my suit, I am ready to perform at my peak, to adventure, to explore, & to inspire others to join me. Sharing the gift of evolved embodiment within the safety of the suit allows us to collapse the barrier between self & other while maintaining protected personal body integrity. If you are seeking evolved embodiment equipment that potentiates play & plentiful possibility, snag your soma-activation suit at www.imbodhi.co

Own your Throne

human furniture realm cicerone,

embodied etching, echoing epilogue, Dionysian dreamscape documenting dictaphone

corporeal ceremony, body blown in being known

begging blessing bone, supple supplicant pleading to atone

unoccupied utterances useless, despite desperate declarations depone

hollow, wise up & walk your words, do not bore me drone

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revelatory resplendence is not false flash rhinestone,

feeling fells fakeness, slicing anesthetizing silicone

illuminating illustrious illusion, grave engraving, well known halftone

contributing texture, layered sensation, replete palate sown

burning binding blinders, acid acetone,

shed old coat, sprout a new roan,

flaunt flesh fur or galivant in garments self-sewn

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conceive context creatrix, cultivate collaboration, collect creativity, live life returning loan

Master Manifestor, convert change copycat cultural clone

beatific bemoaning, crown disowning, time to get grown

Why postpone?

tickling funny bone chaperone

candidly communicating : choice of conformity or creating culture: reading runes thrown

trusting, knowing keys to gnosis one’s own

{ answer call : take auspices, augur, flown, divination via future primitive phone }

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invitation finding edges, wholeness together hone

feeling freedom in fullness, movement musing homegrown

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assume the position, prone,

perched pelvis building backbone

experience enriches, beyond gold, cryptocurrency, or leone

alone unable to activate abundant hormone, estrogen, testosterone

playing breath, baritone trombone

bare bottom, deep diaphragm dispersing foehn

compressing chest completely, carapace clear of whispering whimper, gasp, or groan

Body Domming liberation zone

obliging release, ability to access air attuning awareness, cleansing circulation cyclone

body language literate, somatic sensation rosetta stone

penetrative presence in pressure collapsing consciousness, sensing inside other, authenticity shown

wet, sweat, corporeal cologne,

drool flowing Rhone,

swimming sub spirit, carnal knowledge carnivorous morone

holding highest harmony intone, steadfast, unwavering, maternal madrone

undertone as overtone, subversive surface agone unbeknown

fooled by bawdy body, bu++ heart maiden spirit is crone

{ giving as I take it, switch to the bone }

Mutually milking lymphatic tissue

Mutually milking lymphatic tissue : symbiotic { Somatic Magic } : .

In the highest order of { Somatic Magic } massage is mutual. .

Here I demonstrate using a Bodywyrming inch worm technique to apply pressure to points in a rolling weight wave succession to milk lymph. The technique shown allows me to elongate the spine of my sub & traction their hips while simultaneously milking the entire front body of my lymphatic system (including neck, chest, breasts, organs, groin, and inner thighs). The subs position on knees curled up in fetal is also compressing their lymphatic system & depending on the position of their upper body + arms this pose can also be used to milk their underarms in a stomach down position (typically a harder to access point from that angle). .

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Working with the chest in this way has the added side benefit of safe breath play and expanding the capacity of the lungs to take in air {after some compression & constriction ;P} . .

Practitioners can also mutually milk lymph in the Hear+oHeart chest on chest pose demonstrated in the pink photographs previously posted. . .

Merry milking !

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Being called forward in my communities to teach more : let me know what topics you’d like to learn more about & in what form : one on one, workshop, play shop

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& whether online or in person. .

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#lymph #submission #subspace #femdom #bodydom #domination #bdsm #bdsmsubmissive #dominatrix #prodomme #bdsmlifestyle #bdsmslave #bdsmgirl #bdsmlove #bdsmdominant #breathplay #breasts #boobs #boobies #booty #bootybootybooty #buttstuff #bootypics #bootyfit #bootygoals? #bootyworkout #bootys #butt #datbootydoe #assumetheposition

Breast Massage

On addressing the assumption that breasts are automatically a massage no touch zone :

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Purrrhaps I am just a radical bodyworker speaking from the experimental evolving edge of theraputic touch, but it bothers me that breasts are always excluded from massage/contact, even among friends outside of a professional context.

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I am advancing the position that the potential for theraputic breast contact should be an open conversation between a practitioner & their bodyworker rather then de facto off the table {punny} .

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As I have discovered in deep explorations with fellow radbodyworkers, the immune, hormonemotional {= hormone + emotion}, & detoxifying systems of the body benefit greatly from breast massage. {posts on the specifics of how this is connected to the lymphatic system’s function to come}.

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When you consider that {female bodied} chests aka breasts do not recieve this tissue flushing touch, combined with the cultural shaming/judgement of women who do not wear bras (which constrict circulation) the rising rate of breast cancer is not surprising.

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{while also acknowledging in this short constricted snippit that hormones in meat & dairy animals, estrogen mimics such as soy, etc are also strongly contributing factors. I am merely postulating here that this stagnation in our systems due to lack of movement / touch / milking lymphatic tissue multiplies this maladaption }.

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Heaven knows these knockers would benefit from no-judgement bare breast normalcy & a new cultural understanding of openness towards being touched with tenderness regularly / casually / in a friendly manner….a la touch friends with benefits?

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. : Mull with me here : why is the currents status quo is as it is? What would make this new way more broadly accessible?

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#breast #breasts #breasthealth #breastmassage #lymphaticdrainage #lymphaticmassage #lymph #breastmilk #breastcancer #breastcancerawareness #boob #boobsqueeze #boobs #boobies #freetheboobies #freethebreast #freethenipplemovement #freethenipplecampaign #freethenipple #freethebody #edgy #controversial #boudoir #boudoirphotography #boudoirinspiration #bodypositive #bodypositivity #friendswithbenefits #nobra #nobraclub

Have you milked your Lymphatic system today?

Have you milked your Lymphatic system today?
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Imagine yourself as lactating bovine ::
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substituting milk for lymph in your mind ::
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movement keeps the lymphatic system flowing in its prime ::
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thus massaging your tissues maintains your health, divine!

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Lymphatic tissue abounds in the breasts, chest, neck, & underarms.
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The lymphatic system does not have its own dedicated circulatory organ (unlike the blood, for example, which has the heart as a hardworking pump).
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The lymphatic system relies on muscle contractions / motion to carry lymph throughout the body ~ transporting immune agents (such as white blood cells) & detoxifying the body.
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{ Somatic Magic} techiniques make possible the milking of lymphatic tissues through applying broad, soft rolling pressure in a patterned waveform.

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Embodied education = embodieded = body school
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#breast #breasts #breasthealth #breastmassage #lymphaticdrainage #lymphaticmassage #lymphatic #lymphaticsystem #lymphmassage #milking #lymph #lymphaticdrainagemassage #lymphdrainage #immunesystem #immunebooster #immunesupport #immuneboost #immunehealth #immune #immuneboosting #immunesystembooster #immunesystemsupport #immunity #immunityboost #detox #detoxify #detoxifying #detoxing #detoxmassage #detoxification

Heart to Heart Massage

Heart to Heart Massage :

heart moving // moving from heart ><

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when we slow down & sync with blood + breath + bone we sense with our hearts the hidden holed up happenings within ><

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listening to soft subtle sensation in this time of amped up arresting action is an actualizing awareness art .

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Attune : awaken awareness .

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I practice feeling deeper, allowing my heart to balloon, full, feeling, expanding with emotions : resonant with the challenge & privilege of physical existance, swelling, overflowing my carapaced container, breaking open, a soft space to surrender into, self & other swaddled >< .

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Nestling, nuzzling into the nourishment of this non judgemental nest we rest in recieving the gift of presence in pressure without prose // the body can communicate in feeling much more then what the mind knows ><

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. . . “Indigenous cultures’ understanding of the heart’s capacity for sensory perception and cognition was far different from the kind of mushy sense of heart we now have in the West. To the ancient cultures, the heart was a sophisticated organ capable of both perception and a unique form of analytical thought, a thought that was oriented around images filled with feeling, a synaesthetic perceptual sensing that uses a specific form of imagination… [this] seeing [is] often affected by… Internal state… so… caretaking and work on the self is essential. Feeling so deeply actually involves feeling deeply and, because the heart and the self remain open, undefended, not dissociated, all the consciousness modules, all the parts of the self are affected. Stuff comes up. And that can affect the capacity to do the work.” (Stephen Harrod Buhner, Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, pg. 341-343).

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#hearttoheart #heart_imprint #heartmade #heartthrob #heartopener #hearttouching #heartchakra #heartbroken #heartbreakclub #dothework #heartopening #indigenous #heartmedicine #openyourheart #heartopeners #emotive #emotionalsupport #emotionalhealing #emotionally #caretaker #takecare #feelings #feelbetter #inmyfeelings #feelfree #highlysensitiveperson #sensitive #brokenheartquotes #brokenheart #heartquotes