Issue 1 – Celebration of Women Gallery – ASLI MAGAZINE

The Body Journey Project

The Body Journey Project

By Jacklyn Janeksela This is the index finger. it does many things like help me open cans and write. it does many things like judge and hate. it can smooth on lip gloss to make me pretty, then point to a bulging belly. it can twirl a piece of hair, then laught at what i wear. this is the index finger i point at myself. how to make the index more compassionate. how to make it hush its mouth. how to make it more positive.

“Childhood Dreams Grow” by Tina Struthers

Queen Different by Clarisse Pastor-Medina

The Body Journey Project

Everlution By ZARA SLATTERY plays on the theme of the ‘Evolution of Man’, and briefly draws on my life as a woman, from infant to a one-legged survivor of Necrotizing Myositis. The white dress represents the steadfastness of self throughout the different stages of womanhood.

Dancer Ruby Al-Faqir,28 , Dubai, UAE.

NO HARD FEELINGS! 2012 Size: W.17 x H.17 x D.14cm Medium: Box-cast clear glass, metal, wood, faux-fur & LED lights

By Jacklyn Janeksela I have used this fork so i will eat less. i have used this fork so i look more feminine and dainty. i have used this fork to punish myself. eating is not bad, calories are not bad, sugar is not bad. bad is what i do with these concepts in my mind. bad is how i allow them to transform my body. i deserve to eat. i deserve calories and sugar. i deserve a bigger for

NO HARD FEELINGS! 2012 Size: W.17 x H.17 x D.14cm Medium: Box-cast clear glass, metal, wood, faux-fur & LED lights

A faded poster of Klimt’s, The Kiss, hangs on the kitchen wall – an idealised symbol of desire and intimacy, bought and displayed in ones youth. Klimt Soup challenges Klimt’s representation of womanhood, reclaiming her and his depiction of the older woman. By ZARA SLATTERY

Love & Hate 2012 Size: Life-size knuckledusters Medium: Lost-wax cast pink glass, rhinestone crystals, metal, lacquer & wood

Dancer Ruby Al-Faqir,28 , Dubai, UAE.

Suzana Barbosa Lumanova

Dancer Ruby Al-Faqir,28 , Dubai, UAE.

By Jacklyn Janeksela Art Merge

BROKEN PROMISES 2012 Size: Life-size knuckledusters Medium: Lost-wax cast clear glass, metal, lacquer & wood

Tahmineh Monzavi and Marjan Vahdat on the rooftops in Tehran, Iran

Natalie Raven Live Artist and Researcher “Body-Cloth” Photography by Steven Paige

Leah Casey

The Secrets of the Forest by Clarisse Pastor-Medina

http://www.zaraslatteryillustration.com/#!/welcome

Tahmineh Monzavi

Lumanova – Suzana Barbosa, Mike Dell and Randall Savoie

By Charlotte Farhan

Imogen Hudson Clayton

Artist Gonny van Hulst

By Jacklyn Janeksela This is not the devil-it is your mind that creates negativity from an inanimate object and whispers bullshit. this is a long piece of plastic or cloth with printed numbers used for measurement. that’s all it is. it is not an instrument to compare you with a younger, slimmer you; to compare you with certain shit standards of beauty. you are beautiful, your body is beautiful-don’t let this object decide your beauty.

The Body Journey Project

Deloria ManyGreyHorses and her Daughter

Ruby Al-Faqir, India DIWALI FROM US TO THE WORLD – Creating colored sand Mandalas.. expanding our Consciousness.. connecting to the universe

LAURA GRACE WELDON and her dog Winston

Natalie Raven Live Artist and Researcher “Body-Cloth” Photography by Steven Paige

Artist Tina Struthers

“I would like to thank your organization (ASLI) for noticing and selecting my art piece for this campaign. It is a great honour to participate in such exciting project.” http://www.ildikonovaart.weebly.com

-title: Roma Girl – size: 9″x 11″ or 23 cm x 28 cm -media: watercolour on watercolour paper -year: 2009 -description: a portrait of an anxious, sad Romani Girl -comment: 2nd Prize Winner of the City of Toronto Frankly Bob Award, 2009

Casey Bruce

"Childhood Dreams Grow" by Tina Struthers www.tinastruthers.com Education for girls and young women. The hearts of all children are full of dreams, and the magic of all the possibilities in the world. We need to take responsibility to help nurture and nourish the dreams of all young girls, to help them to develop and grow into woman that can be independent, make their own choices, and ultimately make a difference to the world! Woman that will weave together our society, and makes it whole, woman that hold families together and thus transfer and protect the incredible wealth of diverse cultural heritage around the world, for future generations. By empowering girls and young woman with education, and skills, we give them an opportunity to be, to grow wings, and to take flight. Mixed media textile instillation: The instillation portrays a young girl ( universal), pulling her dreams with her. With education the world becomes a truly is a magical place.

“Childhood Dreams Grow” by Tina Struthers http://www.tinastruthers.com Education for girls and young women. The hearts of all children are full of dreams, and the magic of all the possibilities in the world. We need to take responsibility to help nurture and nourish the dreams of all young girls, to help them to develop and grow into woman that can be independent, make their own choices, and ultimately make a difference to the world! Woman that will weave together our society, and makes it whole, woman that hold families together and thus transfer and protect the incredible wealth of diverse cultural heritage around the world, for future generations. By empowering girls and young woman with education, and skills, we give them an opportunity to be, to grow wings, and to take flight. Mixed media textile instillation: The instillation portrays a young girl ( universal), pulling her dreams with her. With education the world becomes a truly is a magical place.

Artist ZARA SLATTERY

Art By Angela O’Kelly

Lumanova

Change is Beautiful by Clarisse Pastor-Medina

The Lover – Imogen Hudson Clayton – Photography by Samuel Black Photography

Shell Dooley

Photographer Daniella Fishburne

Lumanova

Art By Angela O’Kelly

A Kiss From Your Lips – Still

Lánre Photographed by Jendella

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Natalie Raven Live Artist and Researcher “Body-Cloth” Photography by Steven Paige

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Miriam Ross – Creator of The Body Journey Project

Ruby Al-Faqir, India DIWALI FROM US TO THE WORLD – Creating colored sand Mandalas.. expanding our Consciousness.. connecting to the universe

Imogen Hudson Clayton – Photography by by Sipke

Lumanova – Suzana Barbosa, Mike Dell and Randall Savoie

Natalie Raven Live Artist and Researcher “Body-Cloth” Photography by Steven Paige

http://www.artsaveslivesinternational.com

SILENT GUILT, QUIET ACCEPTANCE: The Story of a Stillbirth Survivor by Clarisse Pastor-Medina

Alison Tate

The Body Journey Project

Mandirigma in Stilettos (Warrior in Stilettos) by Clarisse Pastor-Medina A coffee painting done in collaboration with Rex Gatdula (tattoo design) This is part of my coffee painting series called BIAK: Explorations of Filipino Heritage, Identity, Immigration and Assimilatio

Struggle by Clarisse Pastor-Medina

“Consumed by Sadness” by Daniella Fishburne

Artist Coralie Girard

The Body Journey Project

Natalie Raven Live Artist and Researcher “Body-Cloth” Photography by Steven Paige

The Body Journey Project

By Charlotte Farhan

Karen Kobel

A Kiss From Your Lips – Still

Erin Jack Art

MOO | Monika Mori web http://www.mori-art.at

Dancer Ruby Al-Faqir,28 , Dubai, UAE.

By Megan Amelie Jack Age 7 Manchester, UK

Jennifer Vogel

“Frauenrechte” – Women´s Rights – stands for the reduction of women to a sexual object and that women aren´t allowed having an opinion and a point of view of their own in a sarcastic way. 2014 – Collage on paper – Size 21 x 30 cm