#feministfriday episode 24 | ART

Good morning,

I love this visual explanation, by Ellen Forney, of how you imagine being depressed when you are not depressed:

This is from her book Marbles. It is uneven but has some great stuff like the above in it and also, NB, a lot of pictures of naked ladies, if that is your jam or an aspect of your jam.

These billboards showing the reasons people live in/leave London are great:

[A]s part of the "London is Changing" project, Ross has been collecting anonymised, individual testimonies of why people are leaving or arriving in London. She's using the billboards to highlight her research into the personal stories behind London's migration patterns.

http://www.citymetric.com/horizons/these-billboards-shed-light-why-people-are-moving-london-and-why-others-are-leaving-763

The billboards themselves:

http://www.citymetric.com/horizons/26-more-billboards-which-show-why-people-are-moving-and-within-london-774

 

Older examples of public art by women (maybe):

"In most hunter-gatherer societies, it's men that do the killing. But it's often the women who haul the meat back to camp, and women are as concerned with the productivity of the hunt as the men are," Snow said. "It wasn't just a bunch of guys out there chasing bison around."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131008-women-handprints-oldest-neolithic-cave-art/

 

Enjoy your weekend,

 

Alex.