maria

@theliminalcompass.bsky.social

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diaspora code-switcher 𖤓 myth, poetry, plants ⸙ un-wombed, immigrant, queer 𖧧 ✒ healing through story Rodos, South Aegean 𓊝 https://msha.ke/theliminalcompass

Blue sky and sea, a lifeguard tower to the right and some umbrellas to the left. A couple of boats in the water. Zephyros beach, Rhodes, South Aegean.
Stencil on the ground of a robot android taking a selfie with text above and below that reads: smile for the ego blackhat TV. Los Angeles, California, 2015
Blue sky and the Aegean with a white house on the cliff in the distance. Mediterranean flora.
Tobias Fünke of Arrested Development sobbing in the shower.
Me and gazelli looking into the camera. I've got my hair up and glasses and a green dress on, gazelli looking off with her third eyelid drawn over her eye. Gazelli is a tuxedo cat with a half white nose and mustache and white whiskers.
"The Disability Pride Flag is a charcoal grey flag bisected diagonally from the top left corner to the lower right corner by five parallel stripes in red, pale gold, pale grey, light blue, and green. The Disability Pride Flag comprises several different elements, each symbolizing various aspects of the disability experience." read more at https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/awareness/pride-flag.php
Tabby kitty sleeping amongst vintage my little ponies of various colors
Kids Incorporated logo, from the 90s US tv show. Block letters with blue red and yellow.
Collage in mostly lavender purples and blues of a sparkly black cat holding a sparkly daggar with mushrooms behind it. Water tones and bubbles as background with mountains as sunset and a decorative flower at the top centre of the collage
Night sky full of start background, painted flowers in blues red yellows and pinks, evil eye talismans floating behind the flowers. Digital collage via shuffles.
Bag of nuts and a cider along with purple plant
ripening the fruit is ripening slowly you can smell it's sweetness as you pass by smells telling you it is time to taste its beauty but before this a flower must become a seed a seed must be buried watered, fed from the darkness become a network roots must sprout a tiny being become a tree or a bush will grow then the fruit comes patience, you smell will become sweet too when it is your time to fruit
Gazelli looking at the camera while lying sideways on her stripey cushio.
Maria with a hat sunglasses and bathing suit, Aegean behind her
Democratic Republic of Congo arriving at the airport for the world cup. They are in black suits with leopard printed decor across their chests, a leopard brooch, and carrying leopard garment bags.
Scene from 30 Rock: Jack in a blue suit says 'please have a seat' Tracy on a yellow shirt and blue vest says 'no, thank you. I prefer to lie down.'
Maria with sunglasses on smiling at the camera, evergreen trees behind her to the right, blue sky to the left
A view of a sandy beach with blue skies and blue sea, folks sitting around and swimming. Zephyros Beach, Rhodes, South Aegean, Greece.
Tuxedo cat Gazelli with her belly turned up. Her white whiskers prominent, her green eyes looking off into the camera. She lies on a stack of colorfully striped cushions, with grey wall behind her.
Man at the door with short hair and a olive green military suit nods and smiles. Behind him yellow-green foliage. Giancarlo Esposito as Tom Neville in tv show Revolution.
Blue skies and blue Aegean sea, a heavy fog layer over the water obscuring the islands and Turkiye across the way. White washed Greek homes in the foreground and along the cliff near the horizon line
Gazelli the tuxedo cat sitting inside a paper bag
Indigo morning glories amongst their vines and green leaves
Harold Perrineau and several other men in pink suspenders and tiny pink shorts, wearing milkman caps that say MILK STUDS on them with a big crowd in a darkly lit pink room. Scene from Claws.
Stelios and with smile and a bloody Mary. Miss you Baba
Gazelli a tuxedo cat since in an assortment of desk detritus.
Meme of an orange pill bottle lying on its side. At the top centre it says in black type antidepressants. There are many little cats strewn about the page. The antidepressant pills are cats! Meow!
A black satyr in thigh high pink stilettos holding a pink trident. rainbow flag behind them. text underneath reads PRIDEMONTH, the letterd DEMON in red, the others in pink. find the print here: https://www.billcrisafi.com/products/pridemonth-fine-art-print
Gazelli, a tuxedo cat, in her favorite bag.
Digital collage of Greek women through the ages from ancient statues of gods, to byzantine representation, to more modern folk costuming. Collage by me
Gazelli the tuxedo cat looks out from her red and brown paper bag
Poem: ambush illness hit me like an ambush the signs were there before the fall I just never learned how to listen now as my body speaks I understand that she did not betray me my mind didn't either they are not at fault language not of words language of knowing to live authentically not as others wished but as I needed to be
Painting of an oracle at Delphi sitting over the vapors. Colors dark deep browns and the oracle is wearing a dark red shawl. The text reads: one cave at Delphi please. Extra vapors @theliminalcompass
Rocky beach with a small wave. All blue sea and sky with Turkish mountains at the horizon. Aegean, Ixia, Rhodes
3 still shots from a scene from Motherland Fort Salem where two characters are sitting at a bar and talking. The text reads: Sometimes I feel like I'm in-between worlds, without belonging to any of them. Response: sounds familiar.
blaack cursive text on lined paper: real life lives in the nuance
Black background with white lettering. In the centre the official symbol of the Pontic Greek Genocide, a G created from white outlines of men women children symbols and buildings, all leading up to a tree with yellow. Underneath in Greek & English it says: Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus, 1914-1923.
background art: black and white of a woman floating in space who has a full moon for a head. Artist credit: so this is how Émile-Antoine Bayard 1870, text: What does the moon witness in you that no one else sees? How can you honor that part of yourself? @theliminalcompass
A collage with a background of blue and white tiles with a crescent moon. In the centre a black and white photo of maria callas in a large metal headdress of flowers and a dark top with similar embellishments.
A Greek field in spring covered in yellow and white daisies with ancient ruins strewn about. An audience in coats and hats of red yellow blue and green watches a goddess with a beige robe and giant blue flower headpiece. She's surrounded by shields of sacred hearts adorned by flowers.
A digital collage in blue tones of water, ice and water spirits and nymphs.
rupaul in a white updo with a silver dress and orange with pink background saying don't fuck it up
street art in los angeles circa 2015. Yellow wall with black letters tha read LA. Underneath black and white tiled paste up of the same lettering.
A poem called Yalini a crust on my skin itch all over the salt of the sea dried after swimming in the waters of the Aegean my ancestors felt it too a crust, sealing the therapy under blue skies of blue waters we call this blue yalazio the word for calm, yalini the waters of the Aegean salt of blue waters healing generations across time yalazio brings yalini -maria stenos
Waves against a rocky shore. Blue sea, blue sky. Rhodes, South Aegean, Greece
Beige paper, black text of a poem called Blossoms the scent of spring upon us orange blossom first geraniums then the jasmine comes the wild world speaks of welcome and renewal smells carrying wild knowledge ancestors sending messages the earth mother reminding us of connection one sense at a time - Maria Stenos
ancient grecian columns against a blue sky
Selfie of me in large round black rimmed glasses brown hair messy bun grey headband and silver earrings off white top. In a dark hallway, sign to the right for a store called Peach Please
Clip of the Anthesteria parade on Rhodes island today where a group of women and young children in white wearing flower crowns and carrying garlands in a procession towards the city centre. This is an ancient tradition which has lasted through religious changes. The pagan roots never left this lands of Greece they are still alive and well.
A picture of the Δημαρχείο Ρόδου, Rhodes Town Hall in the city centre. Banners covered in flowers which say Ανθεστήρια Anthesteria a festival of flowers held yearly in spring in Greece since ancient times. Originally a holiday to honor Dionysus and the return of spring, a parade of groups from all over the island shared their local traditions. In the city center shown here, you see people walking around, speakers, a DJ, and first aid services. Some garlands high above at the top of the building, blue sky, and Greek & regional flag fly above in a blue sky.
Collage of witchy themed goddesses, books, fire, crystals, plants, books, plants, evil eye, and a pearl metal spider brooch. Colors in purples blues oranges beige.
My rose geranium on my balcony. Little pink flowers with large leaves.
#memes #ancientgreece #dionysus #greekgods #greekgodsandgoddesses #greekdiaspora #diasporavoices #greekmemes #greekmemes #theliminalcompass
A collage of womb themed art with a bright orange red background and on top flowers, sun's rays, depictions of the womb as flowers, snake, and cosmos. Moon motif at the bottom accompanied by statue of Daphne becoming a tree from the metamorphosis. Colors are primarily warm and earth tones with some blue and green accents.
A collage of art inspired by the moon and the moon goddess Selene. Colors are dark blues, purples and earth tones.
black background, beige text that reads: POEM TO SELENE She shines down upon my head amongst the olives and figs, she shines down in the dawn as the crickets begin to chirrup, she shines down as the gusts of winter wind send chills down my spine, she hides in the shadows of the clouds as the mighty lightning of divinity illuminates the skies. Even when she is hidden, we know her strength. Selene is a witness to darkness. -Maria Stenos @theliminalcompass
Yiannis Tsarouchis Study for May 1966 A young man with Mediterranean features looks off into the distance. He is clean shaved and has short hair, and he is wearing a flower crown made of red cloth and white and yellow flowers.
Tan background with black drawing of a priestess dancing during a Bacchae celebration. She holds a branch and a cat by the hind legs, with a snake around her hair
a poem, white background, black print that reads: the trees still remember the trees speak to me in words you can't understand because they don't speak in words, they speak in meaning long forgotten by those with ears the trees speak to me and tell me their secrets of how to live well when we live slowly of how patience can turn us away from fear of places deep within that remain unseen for those of us who have forgotten we have roots, too the trees speak to me of times gone by when electricity didn't charge the air so of times before, when the stars told their stories in our night skies with ease of times when totem was honored by community and ceremony the trees are still speaking to those who have the ear the ear we lost to progress and competition when we sacrificed community and balance for convenience the trees remember, they send stories through their branches like we do through our networks on the ethers they keep the myths of the earth the songs of the dyads, the laughter of the nymphs the trees remember when Pan's magic still ruled when Dionysus' frenzied orgy carried screams into the night and dawned with catharsis when the goddess was one and hierarchies were matriarchal in tune with the rhythms of earth and of sea of the cycles of the moon the trees still remember and speak the histories into the winds - Maria Stenos
A picture of a wooden wall or partition, faded pain, with the word MARIA spray painted in green large in the middle. The I is dotted with a heart. There is a square cut out of the wall where grasses and weeds and the daytime sky shows through. Birmingham, UK