“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
‘Woman On Top’ collage on canvas by Angela Zafiris
This is my humorous feminist collage that I know men (and some non-feminist women) will love so much 😉
Feminism is a subject that has been discussed a lot recently and it has unfortunately become controversial and even taboo for some people. I have heard so many varying definitions of feminism by feminists and anti-feminists and the majority of the definitions are really off and I find that they are made by very ignorant people like celebrities. My definition of feminism is that women shouldn’t be mistreated and discriminated against due to their gender. Throughout human history women have been treated appallingly, they were raped, tortured and suffered verbal and physical abuse at home. Women had no choice for their future, and no voice. This is why very few women made their mark in history. Today women are still suffering all over the world. It seems that only a little progress has been made.
Yesterday, I was looking at my bookshelf and I noticed that I had a book called, ‘Feminism For Beginners’ from my University years. I decided to read it again with different, older and wiser eyes. The definition of feminism (according to the authors of the book), for anyone who is confused about what it means is: “Women demanding their full rights as human beings.” Also, ‘feminism is about challenging the division of labour in the world that puts men in charge of the public sphere-work, sports, wars, government-while women slave away unpaid in the home, carrying the whole burden of family life”.
I believe that everyone should want equality of the genders, and I would hope that one day people will finally love and respect each and that feminism will not be controversial as it is today.
*If my collage was a little too ‘white’ for some people that is because I only have European magazines to work with.
‘Scylla and Charybdis’ Collage art on canvas by Angela Zafiris
I decided to republish my collage as I feel that it reminds me of the difficult situation in Greece right now. I feel that we had to choose between Scylla and Charybdis in the referendum , two terrible things. Scylla and Charybdis were the names of the sea monsters in greek mythology, They sank ships and drowned sailors travelling through the narrow strait. These ships had to choose, when travelling through the strait, whether to get sucked into a whirl pool or get hit by a rock. There would be fatalities either way. The idioms ‘a rock and a hard place’, ‘the devil and the deep blue sea’ and ‘between two evils’ all stem form this myth. This is what I feel about the vote whether it is a ‘yes’ Nai or a ‘no’ Oxi, it will still be a very difficult road ahead for us…
‘Back to Reality’ by Angela Zafiris 14 x 11 inches on canvas.
Back to the harshness of reality, but the daydream is better. For us creatives it’s a necessity, and no one can convince us that it’s wrong.
‘Everything starts as somebody’s daydream’.- Larry Niven (American Writer)
“Be Kind to Yourself’ collage on paper by Angela Zafiris .
My hand-made collage with images from magazines, text that I typed and printed, and a message attached to a yogi tea bag that I glued on to the woman in the framed image. Then, after I scanned the image on to the computer, I played around with photo shop, and I changed the colours from blue to yellow and put a heart around the image.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collage on canvas by Angela Zafiris
High heels
Red lips
She’s careful to never slip
Chin up in the air when she walks
The confidence in her talk
Her ‘multi-tasking’ ability
She’s mastered the code between women
Closeness to the creation
Her love of pretty things
Long hair shining in the sun
Her obsession with beauty
Critical of her body
A career, marriage and children
All happen so effortlessly
Her pride
Her ego
Are as strong as any mans’.
The modern woman, so much is expected from her. To be everything and to do everything. She is not simple, she’s very complicated.. I can go on and on about her. The discussion is never-ending.
FYI-The words in Greek are ‘Woman or child?’, ‘Goddess within’ and ‘fearless’.
‘She got burned’ collage art on cardboard by Angela Zafiris
‘Release Your Fears’ torn paper collage 24 x 34 cm
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‘Release Your Fears’ collage 24 x 34 cm on cardboard paper
My first post of 2015 and I thought I would post a new word collage that I made . I cut out a few words and sentences from magazines in different languages that are important and mean something to me. Then, I painted over the words with some acrylic paint. I had a hard time coming up with a title for it, but I think that ‘Meaningful Words’ is an ok title since they weren’t just random words that I used.
Για το πρώτο μου ‘post’ για το 2015 σκέφτηκα να δημοσιεύσω ένα νέο κολάζ που ειχα φτιαξει . Έκοψα μερικές λέξεις και φράσεις από περιοδικά σε διάφορες γλώσσες που είναι σημαντικά και σημαίνουν κάτι για μένα. Στη συνέχεια, ζωγραφισα πάνω από τις λέξεις με ορισμένα ακρυλικα χρώματα. Δυσκολεύτηκα να καταλήξω σε έναν τίτλο για το κολαζ, αλλά νομίζω ότι το «Λέξεις με Νόημα» είναι ένας καλός τίτλος επειδή δεν ήταν τυχαίες οι λέξεις που είχα κοψει.
Tiny artworks made from torn bits and pieces of paper from magazines. A beach scene on the left and an olive branch on the right.
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