Unveiling the Vulnerability in Art

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In “Cultivating the Self”, Alta Starr quotes Audre Lorde to confront the way some people live “outside themselves”, meaning that they rely on external directives only, rather than their internal knowledge and needs. Through embodiment and somatic work, one can deconstruct traditional structures that often limit and distract creative processes.

In the video, the narrator reads Charles Bukowski’s “Bluebird”, which is a poem about Bukowski’s relationship with emotional vulnerability. The bluebird in the poem represents a part of ourselves that is mostly untouched, untold to anybody else. This made me reflect on how when we want to create something meaningful, we have to practice introspection to access the vulnerable part of ourselves. Bukowski expressed how we should protect what lays bare when we are stripped free from social constructs and conventions. Our experiences, intentions, sensitivities, and truths are unique to us, and only we can translate them into a form of art.
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