Menstruation 

6 creative works found

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  Sky Over Fire Pool With Two Trees
  by Elena Ray

  Abstract mixed medium painting; acrylic and watercolor on paper with inked Chinese character for “sky”. Original 8. 5×11”. Created after a particularly present and powerful yoga practice from which I promptly began to menstruate. At the moment it felt to me the most profound painting I had so far produced. I value the brief process of producing small paintings and collages. They are finely “Now”. It’s complete. I’m fulfilled. I move on. It felt incredible to create directly from my own dynamic moment; blood and opened cellular energy; the feeling that my attained balance and cleanly spinning connection was becoming unhinged by the heat and hunger of the incoming biological process. My first true landscape as a painter, an inner landscape composed of ancient alchemical symbols, which came without intention. It evolved just from the physical act of my hand moving the brush, the inner events, the intense energy generated.

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  identity?
  by Bloody

  its a taboo social subject, and some consider an image of a woman who is having her period to be obscene or disgusting. Is it because seeing the red or the blood reminds people that she is capable of getting pregnant; therefore she is built for more than pleasuring men, and a degree of sexuality is removed? of course, thats just one possible explanation. Others find it offensive for different reasons, and many dont find it offensive at all. there are numerous classic paintings of breastfeeding (at least until formula was developed and the breast turned into such a purely sexual piece of flesh that even women find it offensive) but menstrual blood has always put people off. I like that it makes people uncomfortable. / (i apologize if my discriptions aren’t stellar, I’ve never been a fantastic writer)

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  The Menstrual Cycle ...The Mind Boggles!
  by taiche

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  Wicked Crazy
  by Thur

  It’s true.

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  First Period
  by Tama Blough

  When I first saw this I knew I had to add this. My quilt guild had a challenge for its 10th retreat. We had to make 10” square quilts with the theme of 10 (the number) or ten (like kitten). I remembered that I had started menstruating at age 10 so I did a quilt, “I Started My Period When I Was 10”. It won the most votes in the “Most Creative” category, which was a thrill. We do not leave with the quilt we came with, and the woman who “won” my quilt (amongst much hilarity) had it framed and gave it to her daughter. It now hangs in the gynecology department of a hospital, where her daughter works. Picture quality not good due to 2.5 pixel camera and bad light.

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  The Cycle
  by jon daly

  only women bleed…