Ancestors hair recreation thread !
If i didn't found a couple of years ago this photo album that was featuring more than 100 African women with the hairstyles they were wearing prior to colonization, i would surely had never started ! #Thread#africa#pride
Hair played a major cultural function in pre colonial societies. Depending of the society, they used hairstyle to communicate on their religion, wealth, age, social class, tribe, ethnic identity, marital statut.
Hair had also a lot of spiritual connotation communicating on things like fertility, vitality (the more hair you have, the more fertile and strong, healthy, powerful you are supposed to be) and hair was for some a way to communicate with divine
Hairdressing in africa was for rusted friend or relative. Because of the strong spiritual connotation of hair, the hair in the hand of enemy could become an ingredient in the production of a dangerous “charm” to injure the owner.
African used to have a big variety of hairstyle. It wasn’t only limited to tresses, cornrows, and braided styles, the styles also included ornament like beads, gold, or cowries.
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Today is mother's day in my country and this is a thread of some of my artworks (hair sculpture and paintings) inspired my motherhood !
What is your favorite ??
Redoing some African Precolonial hairstyle. Thread !
For those who don't know, I started sculpting my hair a few years ago because I was inspired by a photo album that showed the kind of hairstyle our ancestors used to wear.
Today is menstrual hygiene day, a very important day for women all over the world.
The day is the 28th May because menstrual cycles average 28 days in length and women menstruate an average of five days each month. (May is the fifth month of the year.).
Menstruation is and will always be a part of women's life. However, no matter how biological and natural this phenomenon is, menstruation is a taboo, like everything related to the intimacy of a woman. it can condition her socially, especially in rural areas.
for a lot of people, a menstruating woman is considered as impure, even almost “cursed”. This explains why in some countries, it is not recommended for the woman who is in her period to cook, touch certain things or people, pray, or to undertake some activities.
I take advantage of this day to share this painting which celebrates the biological capacity that women have to give life. I have never yet felt the desire to have children but I remain admiring and fascinated by our bodies and their abilities. #Thread
their strength, their endurance, their ability to adapt and transform. The way nature made us is perfect. Even if society pushes us to be ashamed of all these attributes ("dirty period", "perverse breasts") we regain a lot of power when we manage to love every aspect of it.
However, for motherhood to be the beautiful thing it represents, the mother need to wish it. Carry a pregnancy to term should never be an obligation and i am full of anger to realise that in so many countries women don't have the freedom to have sovereignty over their own body.