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Showing posts with label in memoriam. Show all posts
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in memoriam
beloveds,
it has come to our attention that iya adunni (susan wenger) has passed on.
iya adunni came to nigeria from germany, became a priestess of osun, and is renowned for the artwork that led to osun's grove being designated as a unesco world heritage site in 2005, one of the few traditional african centers of spirituality to have that distinction.
from the nigerian guardian:
iba ara t'orun, iya.
iba osun
iba orisa
may osogbo and the world always prosper and be protected by the love and power of our sweet mother, the source.
ase.
it has come to our attention that iya adunni (susan wenger) has passed on.
iya adunni came to nigeria from germany, became a priestess of osun, and is renowned for the artwork that led to osun's grove being designated as a unesco world heritage site in 2005, one of the few traditional african centers of spirituality to have that distinction.
from the nigerian guardian:
The late Wenger was born during the First World War in 1915 in the town of Graz, Austria.
She studied art in Graz and Vienna where she was part of the famous Vienna Art-Club. After the Second World War, she travelled to Italy and then spent some time in Switzerland where she had exhibitions together with the most famous artists at the time in the gallery Des Eaux Vives in Zurich. In 1949, Susanne went to Paris, where she met Ulli Beier, a German linguist who accepted a posting in West Africa.
They got married and in 1959 arrived in Nigeria. From Ibadan they moved to Ede where she "very quickly became part of their culture." This was where Susanne Wenger met Ajagemo, a powerful Obatala priest and her guru who initiated her to the traditional Yoruba religion - the world of the Orisha.
From a very early age, Susanne Wenger had been strongly attracted by nature and specifically by trees - in which she recognised "the images of sacredness".
And it is in the Sacred Groves of Osogbo where she had integrated her art into nature and where her art is now protecting nature.
iba ara t'orun, iya.
iba osun
iba orisa
may osogbo and the world always prosper and be protected by the love and power of our sweet mother, the source.
ase.
12.26.2008
in memoriam
the shack would like to take a moment to mark the passing of a bastion of sensuality, eartha kitt.
her talent allowed her to turn a strife and rejection filled beginning into a life brimming with elegance, glamour and class.
enjoy your rest, mama eartha. may you be welcomed in the next realm.
12.12.2008
in memoriam: bettie page
one of the iconic pinups has made her transition. bettie page left this plane on december 11th after a december 2nd heart attack left her on life support.
from her la times obit:
Page, whose later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state mental institution, died Thursday night at Kindred Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been on life support since suffering a heart attack Dec. 2, according to her agent, Mark Roesler.
A cult figure, Page was most famous for the estimated 20,000 4-by-5-inch black-and-white glossy photographs taken by amateur shutterbugs from 1949 to 1957. The photos showed her in high heels and bikinis or negligees, bondage apparel -- or nothing at all.
Decades later, those images inspired biographies, comic books, fan clubs, websites, commercial products -- Bettie Page playing cards, dress-up magnet sets, action figures, Zippo lighters, shot glasses -- and, in 2005, a film about her life and times, "The Notorious Bettie Page."
Then there are the idealized portraits of her naughty personas -- Nurse Bettie, Jungle Bettie, Voodoo Bettie, Banned in Boston Bettie, Maid Bettie, Crackers in Bed Bettie -- memorialized by such artists as Olivia de Berardinis.
"I'll always paint Bettie Page," De Berardinis said Thursday night . "But truth be told, it took me years to understand what I was looking at in the old photographs of her. Now I get it. There was a passion play unfolding in her mind. What some see as a bad-girl image was in fact a certain sensual freedom and play-acting - it was part of the fun of being a woman."
"The origins of what captures the imagination and creates a particular celebrity are sometimes difficult to define," Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner said Thursday night. "Bettie Page was one of Playboy magazine's early Playmates, and she became an iconic figure, influencing notions of beauty and fashion. Then she disappeared. . . . Many years later, Bettie resurfaced and we became friends. Her passing is very sad."
In an interview 2 1/2 years ago, Hefner described Page's appeal as "a combination of wholesome innocence and fetish-oriented poses that is at once retro and very modern."
rest well, and stay beautiful.
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