FEET.

Discover Your Body - Art Contest

I knew this would be a challenge.

I am very excited about this contest.
It is challenging personally as I battle an illness that has had my body let me down very suddenly.
I hope to learn to love it more as the weeks progress.

I was tempted to draw cute toes.
I went with the chunky long and weird. The real deal.

A feature of my connective tissue disorder is long fingers and toes. I grew up hating them. I don't hate them quite so much anymore but enough to crop them from the photos.
I have quite the journey of self acceptance ahead of me in this art challenge.

I have done a feet related post before actually which does give an ambiguous insight into why this one is hard.

It was over a year ago for @papa-pepper's tattoo contest.

This is the photo from the contest.

"The aim of this contest is to help artists to discover their body as a tool to create art and an inspiration for art."

I enjoyed the process.

I took a picture of the fish kissing too.

Just for giggles. 🐡
...although maybe they look like fighting fish.

My connective tissue disorder, although extremely painful, also makes my joints very bendy.

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You can check out the contest here

This contest promises to trigger everyone at some point with regards to looking at themselves and seeing themselves.

Stepping back and finding perspective among all the clutter in our heads that decides who or what we are without even looking first.

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I'm excited about this challenge.

Each week a different part of the body to study and embrace.

Next week lower legs!💃

Who's coming on a quest with me to love their cankles more. To thank them for all they do. To pay homage to them and acknowledge the fluid that pools in that interstitial space every day as you go about your day ignoring their wonder.

Next week.

Put them up 🛀 and wonder in all their thankless duties.
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Before then-

This week, don't forget...

Those distal phalanges on the end of them, with the metatarsal in between.

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Have a moment to acknowledge your feet.

create their portrait, and forgive them all their narliness, celebrate them, as they continue to diligently deliver you through this world.

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Thanks @yoganarchista.

I love the ideas you come up with. They always gift a piece of who you are, and challenge others to get to know themselves in a new way too.

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