Intergalactic Summit

This thread makes me glad for the existence of strong alcohol. It scrubs away the mental imagery..

On a side note, as a resident of Heimatar (mostly) I'll pass.

I hate to snip out so much that obviously had a good deal of thought put into it, but this one line stood right out.

Well done Miss Wildfire, well done.

This thread is going places...

Not good places.

There is now not enough alcohol in the galaxy to comprehend this...


I'd bash the memories out with a brick if it meant I'd be without risk to return here, as noted by Captain North sadly, this isn't guaranteed.

You propose five workable clones?

I will just say this: there have been very able Matari men able to take on a 1v5 and still endure, despite being outnumbered.

You should re-check your numbers.

It's relative easy to picture it if you ever have seen a sewing machine. It's just the other way round, that the needle is transported not the cloth. In fact most of you know that infamous Matari painting that you can see in the Pator Republic Art Gallery "Sebiestor Sewing Girl", no? It was at it's time one of the most controversial paintings and nearly didn't survive burning by the Amarrian inquisition, because many see it as one of the most sexy paintings ever.

Odelya will be the new Sewing Girl. It will be a living installation about sex, about industrialization, about rationalism and self-sacrifice for the great cause and the relationship between Amarr and Matari society. It will be great!

P.S.: there have been questions about if I may link the image of the picture but I have referred to Minmatar culture in the past and many of those links have been removed by Concord. So I'm only linking my own cultural contributions, but I leave it up to you to do it.

The issue of the Sewing Girl is an important one in Minmatar culture. As the sewing is a very feminine work, mostly done by the women at home, that do the homework, raise the kids, while men work on the fields. The sewing girl is a poor girl. Sewing is producing very low income and was one of the first, together with weaving, that were victims of the industrial revolution.

The cloth the girls are working on is often not cloth they are allowed to wear or can afford to wear. So the body of the sewing girl is often left almost naked on those pictures, while the only cloth covering their skin is the cloth they are working on, giving them by their masters. They are poor, they are on the bottom of the hierarchy of society. They are young, they are skilled, they are deftly and their fingers, their bodies are fairly-like slender, even a bit unreal and ghostly with their white skin.

The thick and rich Amarrian cloth is in huge contrast to their fragile bodies. Heavy with frills and gold embroidery, rich in every aspect, the girl poor. On some of the pictures the girl is touched on her shoulder by her master. Which of cause is a nice way to say that she's abused by him and suffers. But also a picture of his dark desires to her innocence. The sewing girl is vulnerable and the fact that she has no clothing of her own means that she is literally left with nothing but her body to the cruelty and arbitrariness of the world around her. She is not only the picture of the young in the world of the old. Not just the picture of the exploited skilled through the aged and rich, it is also the picture of life against death. And of seduction but also of commitment to the simple task, the simple way of life. On some pictures you see threads that are winding around her naked legs, touching her, like spiders that walk up their way on the silken white skin underneath the cloth on her lap. It's playing with the senses and your imagination where this thread will end.

The theme of the thread is also a hidden cultural reference to the goddess of weaving, Frigg or Freya, the goddess of fate, mistress over death and birth, the mother of the Valkyries that collect the best of the warrior to her table. Is the hidden warrior-girl behind the fragile sewing girl. The warrior girl that wants to come out and fight against her oppression. So one of my most favorite drawings of this theme is showing the explosion of the Reclamation in the mirror. It's a very modern interpretation of this old theme, the sewing girl is wearing good clothings. It's symbolizing the future of our kind after the rebellion. I dare to link to the picture here. If it's removed, let it go. But also you see the fairy-like aspect of the Sewing Girl in her appearance and rich symbolized surroundings.

It's a picture of fertility and future against senility and decay.

The theme of the Sewing Girl was painted by several of our artists, so you might find different ways the artists are approaching aspects of this theme. Some concentrate on the sex and romantic aspect, some of the class-fight, some on the critic aspect of the industrial revolution and so on. Some even concentrate on the aspect of fairytale and set it in a picturesque fantasy of a fantastic dream. Which means it concentrates on the unearthly symbol of the sewing woman, the idealized picture of the girl - the Sebiestor fairy so to say. It will vanish when you try to touch her.

The moment you'll break her concentration her body will be gone to mist and illusion, like you can not hold youth. If you try, it will be gone.

You may contribute your own favorite painting and explain why it's your favorite, motto: "Art I'd steal" And maybe somebody is understanding why Odelya will be the new Sewing Girl.

First of all it was her idea. Second of all you ever heard of the concept of irony? The whole idea of this "project" is so hilarious that I can't really imagine anyone will take it literally or serious or see it as an insult to Odelya. What we're working on is a way to visualize the madness of the concept of pornography versus art. And with this the madness of the assault of her family on her integrity. It's even not about her, it's about violence forced by society on the individuum. That a majority every time can sacrifice a minority for the greater good even by democratic vote. The idea of pornography is such an assault. It's a weapon of establishment against the individual rights of a person, that destroys them. Nothing else.

Even the most perverted idea of art can still be placed into culture. And this is not about Odelya as a person, which is a well respected capsuleer, this is indeed about the madness of the idea of pornography, which I am showing very much where it leads. It's leading nowhere.

But any path you chose leads to culture and art, if you dare to violate borders, insert new ideas and start to refer to culture there is. If you start connecting and building a context, the minds are opening. Art is not selling itself like the girls that sell their bodies for a cent of an isk at the next station, art may slamming you into the face. It is in itself subversive and aggressive. It's saying things that can't be said by other means. It's inventing new context, new state of minds and new point of views, finding a new path between the trenches of Yes and No.

It's showing what is. Our world is perverted. Not a simple girl. This is the idea behind the Sewing Girl, isn't it? The whole context is just this. I couldn't imagine someone doesn't get the picture.

Quite the contrary, I believe the entire announcement was intended to have this outcome.

Why risk having such an embarrassing political fiasco publicized when this could have just as easily been done in private behind closed doors? I believe their intent was to punish the girl by humiliating her in front of her peers (and superiors), and given Alicia's rather in-depth analysis of auto erotica I'd say it hit the mark. Whether Odelya's bloated ego even registers this as punishment is entirely another matter, but having experienced her arrogance first-hand I'd say it went cleanly in one ear and out the other.

Personally, I have no problem with her being a **** or a whore. I was a girl (immature...) once, and it's healthy to explore, but perhaps all of Heimatar might be a bit much.

xoxo

What the ******* ****.

It's certainly not how we Amarr use to handle those problems. But then, there are also so many ways to get to a capsuleer.