#Redefining Boundaries

[clioartfairartistsreviews]

When Creativity Meets Innovation: The Birth of Clio Art Fair Artists Reviews

Down in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, amidst towering skyscrapers and busy streets, lies a testament to the transformative power of art. Just over a decade ago, a group of forward-thinking individuals set out to redefine the experience of viewing art exhibitions, which later became known as The Clio Art Fair. It was founded in 2014 when a group of artists decided that they wanted to create something new instead of just following what the galleries usually did.

Clio Art Fair Reviews - A Call to Fame Named Clio Art Fair

Starting from its humble beginnings, Clio Art Fair captured the imagination of artists and art enthusiasts alike. Unlike most other players in the art industry who mostly catered to well-established names and blue-chip galleries, Clio provided an alternative way. Here, emerging talents had their voices heard while their works were celebrated side by side with those of veteran artists. Almost immediately, this fair became popular for its focus on inclusivity as it accommodated different kinds of artists.

Clio Art Fair: A Review Long 10 Years

As time went on, however, Clio Art Fair grew into a global cultural phenomenon. Its reputation as a springboard for up-and-coming artists continued to rise, resulting in influxes of people seeking what could make them famous among groups like these. With each subsequent edition emerged freshness and thrill when visitors got exposed to various types of art, from paintings to sculptures and photographs to so forth.

But perhaps what truly differentiated Clio was how it managed to build meaningful connections between artists and collectors amid an industry oftentimes more inclined towards profitability margins and exclusivity. This event valued community spirit over everything else, hence ensuring that all participants worked together harmoniously.

The Impact of Clio Art Fair: Transforming Perspectives and Redefining Boundaries

Throughout the past decade, the Clio Art Fair has had an indelible impact on the art world as it has ushered in a new era of contemporary art. By providing opportunities for marginalized voices and underrepresented artists, Clio has challenged conventional ideas about what art is and created space for more inclusive, diverse artistic expression.

In addition, Clio’s pioneering spirit has opened new frontiers in the field of art exhibitions. Over time, this fair used unorthodox locations and immersive experiences to push boundaries, thereby compelling visitors to reevaluate their previous understandings of art as well as its place in society.

Looking Ahead: The Next Chapter for Clio Art Fair

With the Clio Art Fair about to celebrate its 10th anniversary, there is a lot of enthusiasm in the air. It started as an audacious experiment that has grown into a revered institution that is loved by artists and art lovers alike. The fair keeps changing every year, expanding frontiers and re-imagining how 21st-century contemporary art exhibitions should be done.

As we anticipate the next chapter of this rich Clio’s history, one thing remains clear. Its legacy of originality and integration will persistently inspire and hold captive people’s imaginations for years to come. In a world where change is constant, and creativity knows no bounds, Clio Art Fair stands as a shining example of what can be achieved when passion and vision collide.

[rikebe]

i'm on a lotr kick so i felt like redrawing this old doodle! the point still stands, these two are always my number one deep down <3

and some bonus dancing! height differences are hard

[stellamancer]

as much as i love the idea of my halloween fic I AM EXCITED TO GET TO THE FAKE DATING FIC I'M DOING AFTER. HEHE.

[genderdryad]

i feel like i shouldn't have to plaster "mspec/male 'lesbians' dni" all over my page but here we are

[giorgio52fan]

Helping Teens Reduce Self-Imposed Pressure: A Comprehensive Guide

In today’s fast-paced and competitive world, teenagers often find themselves under immense pressure to excel academically, socially, and in various other aspects of their lives. This self-imposed pressure can lead to stress, anxiety, and even burnout. As parents, educators, and mentors, it’s crucial to provide guidance and support to help teens navigate these challenges and learn to put less…

[mister13eyond]

still relationship ranting forgive me (it's all positive, more or less?)

it's also why it is really funny to me that people constantly talk about like 'i want to be in a relationship but i don't want [one specific part]' and it's like

you can just... you can just NOT do that part, then.

you can NOT cohabitate, if you think living with someone would take away your comfort with your living situation. you can not have sex if you don't want to have sex. you can use or not use any label, you can use or not use any terms of affection, you can choose your level of consistent contact you can choose your level of physical affection you can choose whether you want to make any long-term decisions like pets or marriage or children. you can choose whether you want to be exclusive or monogamous, you can choose whether you have multiple people involved, you can choose whether you make plans now or talk it out later, you can have an ongoing, long-term conversation where you check in periodically to see if anything has changed or if you want to change something.

like! i know the cishets tell us 'you fall in love with ONE person and you will KNOW when you are in love and you will ONLY ever love them FOREVER unless you FALL OUT OF LOVE and then you will be DOOMED TO A TRAGIC BREAKUP OR CHEATING'

but like in my personal experience... it's more like.... 'you will meet someone and you will feel like you are really connected to them and you get along well and you are attracted to them. you can then either nurture that feeling by spending more time together and testing out whether your initial connection is sustainable or you can let it pass through you and simply let things go wherever they go. then you can tell them how you feel, talk about what you think you'd like or not like, decide whether you want to prioritize your relationship and your time together over other, more casual connections in your life, and try it out. and you can talk about this any time something feels off. and you're not going to fall out of love spontaneously and for no reason when you were happy before; most of the time you'll notice that there's more distance between you and you're not as close or communicative as you were previously pretty early along that path. and you can THEN decide whether you want to say 'hey let's do more things together to help us bond and feel close and open up to each other' or you can say 'i think we've probably changed in a way where we're no longer on the same page with our relationship, do you want to figure out what we both need and adjust accordingly?'

which is like. it sounds so sterile and clinical but it's actually GREAT? feelings aren't this great big overpowering beast that you cannot wrangle; love is not a thing that will just spontaneously stop one day despite your desperate desire to still feel it. the more time you spend with someone and the more you support each other, the closer you will feel. the less time you spend and the less you support each other's needs, the further you will drift. you can 100% grow that garden to your own specifications and you can simply choose not to include sex or cohabitation or monogamy or labels or WHATEVER else and it's great because it's YOUR garden.

there is no one hard definition for any relationship and there is no one specific way to have a relationship. it's literally just seeing what feels right and then describing it in whatever terms feel right.

[alcorian-cycle]

alrihgt. jesus christ. no more cosmic horrors at 1 am 

[atlasbeetles]

had an absolute Moment earlier over some bullshit im going to vent Vaguely about it so i feel normal :

because why are you gonna act pressed abt what time of day i ttalk to you if youre going to be soooo upset no matter what. if you didnt want me reaching out why did you not block me EVERYWHERE and not just fucking social media. and then have the gall to be like "i dont wanna burden anyone the way he burdened me" achievement unlocked your a moron dipshit. "oh this ruined my whole morning" it woudltn have mattered. you're a pussy and no better than me because you wanted to pretend to give me a chance to reconcile. god almighty

[sludgeguzzler]

man honestly. fuck romance and sex man i chahnge my mind from now on everything i do is platonic and i want DISTANCE from this conventional shit

[dental1234]

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[buddhistmusings]

Every time I post something referencing the very real humanitarian crisis in Palestine, my "for you" page changes and becomes filled with recommended posts that contain the most vile antisemitic shit.

It makes me so sad, because it reminds me of what an awful job that a movement that was supposed to be about advocating for Palestinian lives has done with boundary maintenance. It is so compromised that social media algorithms don't appear able to differentiate between advocacy on behalf of Palestinians and antisemitic content. The crossover between the two has become enough that a user who engages with content of one kind is recommended content of another. People who are not educated on antisemitism and the covert symbolism it uses might not recognize it right away, so we are seeing an entire group of people, convinced that they are participating in a civil rights advocacy movement also being indoctrinated into a separate hate movement, under the impression that these two movements are the same.

With such poor boundaries being maintained between these two ideally separate movements, and such overlap growing, how long can I honestly maintain that these are two separate movements?

Meanwhile, innocent Palestinians are being bombed, children are starving, far-right governments on both sides of the conflict are gloating in the support they get from American conservatives and leftists respectively, and functionally, I hear nobody advocating for peace anymore, only the destruction of their enemies. Palestinians are being so incredibly demeaned, by both the people who want to destroy them and their sovereignty, and the people who claim to be supportive of them.

Sane, rational people who are advocating for peaceful solutions are disregarded and voices on the fringe are centered. People are witnessing what they interpret as a genocide unfolding and in response are advocating for a counter-genocide. Can they not see how this actively impedes the peace process? They give legitimacy to (false) far-right Israeli nationalist claims of Palestinian statehood as an inherent danger to the safety of the Jewish people, and demean the Palestinian people by suggesting that what they want is revenge and not to live their lives in peace. They've made questions about the legitimacy of Hamas, an evil terrorist organization, central to the movement, instead of what should be the priority, that innocent people are suffering and that this is unacceptable. They have redefined and reappropriated Jewish words to use as antisemitic slurs and convinced their audience that using these slurs is not antisemitism.

Meanwhile, capitalizing on the above mentioned antisemitism, those who want to harm the Palestinian people, deny them statehood, are using the words and actions of these activists as ideological ammunition to fire up their anti-Palestinian base. Donald Trump literally called Joe Biden a Palestinian at the presidential debate as a slur. Republicans are using the word "Palestinian" as a slur. Netanyahu (possibly one of the worst people involved in this entire situation), in his speech to congress, was able to point to the very real antisemitic actions of activists to further cement support for him personally. By the way, saying how antisemitic activists harm Palestinians shouldn't have to be the rhetorical point we resort to. The fact that antisemitism hurts Jewish people is enough to make it a bad thing and is enough to make us avoid doing it, right?

I'm tired of turning in one direction and saying "You should NEVER say something like that about Palestinians" and then turning in the other and saying "You should NEVER say something like that about Jews". It should not have to be said that condemning the very existence of one of two ethnic groups in their shared homeland is unacceptable, and yes, it is their shared homeland, because they both live there and are both from there. It should not have to be said that you should understand what a word means before using it to insult people. Here I am in fact talking about the word Zionist, because that is a family of various movements, some of which are worthy of condemnation, but frankly, the basic premise of Zionism does not demean or degrade Palestinians at all, because it simply is the belief that Jewish people have the right to return to and form communities in their homeland.

I'm kind of opening myself up to get a lot of criticism here, but I wanted to get these thoughts out, because I have been finding them enormously frustrating. My heart breaks for all the innocent Palestinians who are suffering and have a lackluster movement advocating on their behalf, and my heart breaks for all the Jewish people who have lost friends to antisemitic conspiracy. My heart breaks for the victims of 10/7 and their families, as well as the Jewish community who was interrupted in the mourning of their losses. My heart breaks for all of the Palestinians who have lost friends and family in the subsequent destruction in Gaza and the immense violence and famine we are seeing.

Please root your activism in peace and compassion, not hatred and destruction. Please think before you speak about entire groups of people. Learn about what words mean before you use them to condemn others. Learn about Jewish people, Palestinian people, their lives, their cultures, and why they both feel such a strong connection to the land. Make this about healing, love, and reconciliation, and not about being right.

[tobiasdrake]

Like, getting political for a moment. A thing a lot of people need to understand is that, ultimately, rules only exist if they are enforceable. The mechanism of enforcement is what determines the realness of a rule.

If you're playing Monopoly and you decide that being in Jail sucks so you move your piece to Go and call it a tunneling loophole, there's nothing built into the game to actually stop you from doing that. Other players yelling at you and banishing you from the table is how the rule is enforced. But if they don't, if they let you do that, then I'm sorry but that's just how the game is played now. If you're allowed to do it then it's not against the rules.

We all instinctively understand that when you're running track, you're not supposed to cross the lines into someone else's lane. But the lines are not a wall. They're not physically preventing you from doing anything. If you decide you want to run into the lane to your right and jump-kick the other racer, you physically can do that.

The line on the ground is a social construct. It's part of the magic circle; A thing that takes on special meaning, even psychological power, so long as we exist within its play space. But it's not real, and it only has power if somebody comes over and drags you off the field for striking that other racer.

At the highest echelons of power, a lot of what "can" and "can't" be done are actually just the boundaries of a magic circle with few real enforcement mechanisms. The President can't do that. But. Like. Who's going to stop him if he does?

The biggest thing we learned during the Trump Presidency was just how many restrictions on government power are illusory. Trump spent his four years in office testing the limits of what he can and can't do. Stepping over the lines of the magic circle to see which ones had enforcement mechanisms and which were merely decorative. And revealing that an alarming number were decorative.

Because the thing about the highest offices, about POTUS and SCOTUS and Congress, is that they're the highest offices. There's nobody above them. The only check on their power is each other and, contrary to what high school social studies might tell you, those checks aren't very strong at all.

Trump wants to redefine the game rules to be dictatorial. The magic circle says he can't do that. But the only factor that truly decides whether he can or can't is whether the other players at the table will let him do it. And if you listen to the way Republican Congressmen talk, it's not reassuring.

There are no executive super-cops who will arrest Trump if he breaks the rules. The Avengers are not going to show up and stop him from continuing to reconfigure the magic circle to his liking. The only thing, the only true restriction on his power, is the vote. It's the fact that we, as a population, get to make a choice as to whether or not he even gets to sit back down at the table to play again at all.

In a democracy, voters are the enforcement mechanism. Let's try and remember that when November comes around.

[stellamancer]

I've come to realize there's something I'm more nervous writing Suguru than I am writing Gojo.

[intermundia]

"Anakin's relationship with Palpatine eclipses his relationship with Obi-Wan," Christensen remarks. "But he doesn't really have a clear devotion to one or the other. Anakin as he will be played is—I don't want to say naïve, but his belief system is still open. He still isn't exactly set in his devotion to the Jedi or to Palpatine. He is looking to see how he can get more power, but his ideas of good and evil are not black and white."

reading about hayden's understanding of anakin's psychology in revenge of the sith is so illuminating. his fall is not about his moral convictions or about loyalty to a mentor. he's selfishly looking for ways to increase his own power to resist change, without regard for any ethical boundaries, he simply doesn't care about that. he's apolitical, amoral; it's all about what he wants.

anakin just doesn't love obi-wan and the jedi more than he loves being important and having control over the world around him. he doesn't love freedom or justice more than he loves license to do and have whatever he wants. it's really what makes him so dangerous, such a malleable weapon to be wielded. he doesn't have ethical boundaries or convictions to keep him steady.

lacking firm definition of what is good and what is evil allows anakin to redefine those terms to suit his needs. it's what allows him to kill innocents and still not think of himself as evil. it's what allows him to tell obi-wan that the jedi are evil, despite it being an obvious self-delusion. he's lost because his moral compass doesn't point north, but spins freely to face whatever he wants.

[dracoj]

shauna shipman is redefining the toxic girlbestieship game. “codependent” cannot even begin to describe shaunajackie, and we’re starting off wrong by implying they’re even distinct enough to use that label. are you codependent with your stomach? your liver? death tore them apart permanently - jackie frozen eternally young and impossibly perfect - but in doing so, eroded all the other boundaries between them: emotional, mental, physical. you’re with her boyfriend. you’re playing sleepover games with her corpse. eventually you’ll bury yourself in the life she might’ve had, in the way you’ll never bury her. you can’t. she’s in your head. she’s in your mouth. and once you digest her, she’ll be in your baby too.

[nibeul]

Lesbians of color, specifically mascs, butches, n studs, I'm currently writing a paper on masculinity as a lesbian and would appreciate if anyone would be willing to share their experiences/thoughts either in comments, rbs, or through asks (can be anonymous). My sources atm are Pretty Butches, The Watermelon Woman, Women, Race & Class, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, and some academic papers I've collected from the library. Here are some of the questions I'm looking to answer: How do lesbians of color navigate gender expression and identity, particularly masculine presentations, as people who exist outside of the established (Western) gender binary? Is presenting masculine a way of further deconstructing the gender roles that have been assigned to non-men of color despite us not being “participants” in the Western construction of womanhood? Or is it a way of disregarding them entirely?

And my very rough thesis atm is, masc/butch lesbians of color and studs use masculine gender expression as a way of redefining masculinity as a whole, creating a “new” masculinity that completely decenters men and traditional Western gender boundaries altogether. The questions here are very broad but I intend to go into further detail, particularly on hypermasculinization and hyperfeminization, among other things.