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Key arguments:

-Praxis in intersectionality.
-Care.
-Vectors of identity.
-Privilege is something that may define how we see and judge the world around us.
-Systems of power affect our work, thinking and bodies.
-There are different people, however there is a norm. This norm should be changed by decolonising the western normative body.

Dear creativity and inspiration,

It is true that you are vague conceptions, however I am looking for you and I found my way to do this. This particular way, or method if you may, I can relate a lot with a quote from "Decolonisation as Care" from Uzma Rizvi:
“The moment you touch a landscape, the moment you touch the soil, the moment you think about mudbrick, or work with mudbrick, you know it, and know it intimately.”

I connect with it because I really like to work with my hands - I like to put in the effort, I like to connect with the material and to feel the texture. The latter is very important to me and to understand what it wants me to do with it. During this project, I connected well with this. This inspires me.

Concerning my major - animation, I resonate within this text and this specific quote because I like to create stop-motion animations. I like to touch the material, to be behind the camera and to be part of the action. I was the director of our last major project and I loved this position. It gives a lot of opportunities to get to know yourself.

Reading this text I remembered people commenting on me not being very feminine and this has really marked me. Of course, I do not enjoy that and I know should not pay attention to what others are saying, but it really does touch a nerve. However, sometimes I look at myself and I understand why one would say it - I start worrying if what I am wearing is womanly enough. Then I realise again that I am made to think in this way and I should not!

Something that I find in the text and I relate to, is decolonising. I want to decolonise the idea that animation, for one - is only cartoons for children. I agree - it is one aspect of it, however it never started like this and has much more potential to be revealed. I am and I would like to be a part of this in the future.
Furthermore, I have come to the realisation that most people find an art great mainly if masters make it or if it is old-school, anatomically correct. They do not understand “simple art”. It takes a lot of attention to teach someone to appreciate modern art. I want to be a part of the movement that shows the greatness in simplicity.

Thank you for being such an important part in my life!