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URTICA 

ARTISTS STATEMENT
I have gathered many messages and thoughts about my body throughout my life. Some of these have been positive and supportive, but many have been very negative and harmful. Staying away from the media's portrayal of the "perfect" or "ideal" woman is a difficult thing to do while living in civilization. While growing up, many of those images and messages seeped into my brain, left to do their damage. This idea of the perfect, prototype body is so unbelievably fucked up, and I hate that it's poison made it's way into me. It breaks my heart that I used to hate my body so much, that so many women hate their bodies. I have healed so much. I love my body. I know and feel that I am beautiful. So here I am. This is who I am beneath my clothes, and I am not ashamed of any of it.

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human_animal
Urtica 'human_animal'
25 Nov 10
Photos
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dream_space
Urtica 'dream_space'
03 Mar 11
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gloaming
Urtica 'gloaming'
30 Jun 11
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staccato_1
Urtica 'staccato_1'
07 Sep 11
Video
staccato_2
Urtica 'staccato_2'
14 Sep 11
Video
organicism_1
[other artist] 'organicism_1'
22 Jan 12
Photos - Duet
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organicism_2
[other artist] 'organicism_2'
29 Jan 12
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wild_lace
Urtica 'wild_lace'
26 Apr 12
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ARTIST PROFILE
birthplace: A mobile home.
currently living in: The mountains.
occupation: Witch/warrior.
age: 20.
starsign: Leo.
biggest passion in my life: Healing, reclaiming wildness inside and outside of myself, creating space for that with the ones I love.
I like to listen to: the rain, birdsong, laughter, my friends making music with me, streamsong, the wind.
I like to watch: the sun rise and set, the moon, the stars, creatures playing, seeds sproutin' in the garden.
I like to smell: moss, cedar, friction fire, tree pitch, my lover's skin, decaying leaves on the forest floor.
I like to taste: wild plants, fruit and meat, raw honey, food from the garden, fermented and living food, tea.
I like to feel: alive, warmth, passion, my lover's body next to mine, nettle stings, my full range of emotions.
favourite part of my body: Hands, hips, heart.
Why i shot myself: I wanted to take the chance to show my naked body how I want to show it, not how others (necessarily) want to see it.
Most outrageous thing I have done: Deciding to remove myself from this death culture...
Bands I like: CocoRosie, Blackbird Raum, Mariee Sioux, Dystopia, Joanna Newsom, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, Skarp, Fern Knight, Bjork, Detestation.
Books I like: Woman and Nature, Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, The Continuum Concept, Cunt, books on herbs, mushrooms, plants and permaculture, books that teach me how to do things.