Showing posts with label Freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freedom. Show all posts

I Thought I Was Free...


Is this where the sexy get free?
Or does the freedom make them sexy?

     This Wednesday, I went to a paradigm altering event known as "Estatic Dance".  It would be considered a dance club, if you subtracted the need to impress and establish value.  My fly gear was useless and my dance moves were far too calculated.  The dancing was free form and chaotic.

Some jumped
Others channeled their ancestors
Some just waved their arms in a hippie-like manner
A few got naked

     I thought I was free before this moment.  But I realized that I was chained to the rhythm...I was bound to this need to feel sexy...My two-step made me feel like I had cement shoes on.  Watching them gallop around and make waves from their bodies, I soon got with the program. I felt compelled to jump and skip and make love to the walls.  (Those walls oozed with sexuality.)

They call it "Contact Improv"
I call it...
Slippery
Sloppy
Dance Sex

Which took them to the floor and back to their feet...

I'm still grappling with all that happened, but I'll be back next week...
Hopefully, I will be able to explain better...
Stay tuned.

"Rectangles & Squares" by Brian Biedul


 
Get me out of here!
The world is driving along with me in the fucking trunk!
Hoping that someone who cares' within earshot
I continue to SCREAM
Keep kicking and banging my elbows

Get me out of here!!!

I'm trapped in this fucking economy!
This dumb ass machine's forcing me to count beans!
 My priceless contributions add up to WORTHLESS!

I'm locked in this bullshit body!

I'm bigger than black!
I'm too crooked to be straight!
I'm too fertile to be gay!
I'm too versatile to be singular!

Get me out of here!!!








     Artist, Brian Biedul, hit the nail on the head with this collection.  I feel like this everyday, all day!  Painting the human form pressing against the confines of the canvas' edges; he captures the tension and stress.  He conveys the fervor and frustration in great detail.  God!  This is why I love art!  Whenever I run across someone's work that perfectly translates my feelings into an image...it reminds me that I'm not the only one.
     Looking at his collection reminds me why we press against the unmovable.  Because it's beautiful.  Because it makes us brilliant.  The struggle strengthens us.  It builds us up so we can experience freedom FULLY.


Here's a question: 
Who's more free?
The free man born without shackles?

OR

The freed slave who has studied his bondage, 
thus mastering his freedom? 

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