Bosnian woman with children.
Credit: Rudolf Bruner-Dvořák
Bosnian woman 1902 by shakescenery on Flickr.
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Isabelle Eberhardt: Swiss Explorer, Sufi Adventurer || Muslimah Media Watch
Isabelle Eberhardt’s extraordinary life is the stuff of legends – and movies, and operas. Song From the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt, Missy Mazzoli’s multi-media opera, which premiered this spring, explores the unconventional twists and turns of Eberhardt’s short, “operatic” life. You can see the trailer, the Kickstart video, some excerpts and a shorter earlier performance here.
The New York Times review describes the work as ”Crackling Vignettes From an Adventurer’s Life”:
a 19th-century Swiss adventuress who blazed a headstrong trail before perishing prematurely in Algeria at 27, there surely is a saga worthy of operatic treatment. Eberhardt learned Arabic, converted to Islam, dressed as a man to travel freely, survived an assassination attempt and died in a flash flood after saving her Algerian soldier husband from the same fate.
Mizzy Mazzoli describes her as a female T.E Lawrence:
There are photos of Eberhardt in boys’ clothes with a sailor’s hat, and in several North African male outfits. Just picture Lawrence of Arabia (who was a contemporary of Eberhardt’s), only with a woman wrapped in the draping clothes.
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Watercolor and ink work by Colleen Parker.
Frans Klerkx
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Fossilization: an Introduction (by Diane Savona)
Georgia O’Keefe with Juan Hamilton’s pots.
Dan Budnik.
Fritillaria ~ Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1915
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Donna Ruff burns, cuts books and graphics to make patterned drawings that refer to calligraphy and natural forms.
by Jennifer Collier
