{"id":16159,"date":"2023-05-04T19:09:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T19:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/?p=16159"},"modified":"2023-05-05T00:51:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T00:51:33","slug":"disposable-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/disposable-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Disposable Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where are my sisters and comrades?\u00a0 Where is the beautiful lady without head or legs below her thighs who instead offers a torso nude and smooth red curving into a svelte waist clinched by a lovely but lethal belt of black?\u00a0 Where is her aesthetic soulmate naked and sensually blue save for elegant feathers and an ominous black vest as she prepares to march?\u00a0 Where is the intrepid lady in a chic gray and white plaid civilian uniform chastity chained around the waist and guarded across thighs by a grenade hanging in front.\u00a0 Where are the other <em>Disposable Bodies <\/em>of Laila Shawa?\u00a0 I must be the only one left from our group.\u00a0 There\u2019ll be others of course.\u00a0 They\u2019ll read about us but there won\u2019t be much left to see.\u00a0 I want my picture taken today before I march.\u00a0 I\u2019m resplendent in gems red purple turquoise and white enhanced by bullets belted gold around my neck and waist from which hangs a golden grenade protecting me in a troubled land between river and sea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=shawa%2C+disposable+bodies+4&amp;hl=en&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sxsrf=APwXEddf8Uo-f6Db4eIu34IdL_VCem2tUQ%3A1683227497357&amp;source=hp&amp;biw=1725&amp;bih=850&amp;ei=aQNUZMuWFIzSkPIPlaa56A0&amp;iflsig=AOEireoAAAAAZFQReYl_MWoo7ioxqKPc6aqJHJ0c_meC&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiL77eIr9z-AhUMKUQIHRVTDt0Q4dUDCAY&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=shawa%2C+disposable+bodies+4&amp;gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoECCMQJzoICAAQgAQQsQM6BQgAEIAEOggIABCxAxCDAToGCAAQCBAeOgcIABAYEIAEOgkIABAYEIAEEApQAFibMWDZNWgAcAB4AIABTogBuAySAQIyNpgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1n&amp;sclient=img#imgrc=Azmu8xN2al7V4M\"><em>Disposable Bodies <\/em>is a series of mannequin torsos by Laila Shawa.\u00a0 One of the works appears in <em>Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond <\/em><em>at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.\u00a0 <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Paint-Blue-George-Thomas-Clark-ebook\/dp\/B00UKXD22A\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=38FX0ZMYNJE12&amp;keywords=paint+it+blue+clark&amp;qid=1683242697&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=paint+it+blue+clark%2Cstripbooks%2C155&amp;sr=1-1\">George Thomas Clark authored the collection <em>Paint it Blue<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where are my sisters and comrades?\u00a0 Where is the beautiful lady without head or legs below her thighs who instead offers a torso nude and smooth red curving into a svelte waist clinched by a lovely but lethal belt of black?\u00a0 Where is her aesthetic soulmate naked and sensually blue save for elegant feathers and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,387,113,329,84,1291,119,114,335,2042],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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