t.seguritan.abalos
"Do you know what's happening?"
Sometimes I write not to be creative or to sound interesting or like a writer, but to process life & realize how we can still move...
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"Deeply insightful and beautifully written... Every young musician & artist will benefit from reading your profound reflections."
~ ALBERTO ALMARZA, Flutist & Professor at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music
This blog is an open window into my journey as a creative, a platform to feature fellow artists, & a space to explore diverse topics.
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t.seguritan.abalos
- Oct 31, 2022
- 3 min
visualizing the work of memory
Recently I found a digital album of childhood photos I'd compiled for a high school project, then became obsessed with matching them with...
t.seguritan.abalos
- Oct 27, 2022
- 8 min
"but isn't that the job — to still have a voice?"
Yesterday at my retail job, one of my coworkers — a friend I often talk to without thinking — commented on a James Brown song on the radio:
t.seguritan.abalos
- Apr 25, 2022
- 4 min
sights in April
Living in Pittsburgh has made me hyper-conscious of my race, and the reality that however limited (even arbitrary) racial constructs are,
t.seguritan.abalos
- Feb 28, 2022
- 6 min
That time I almost left my food service job
As food service workers, we're positioned to absorb the anxiety, frustration, & grief everyone has been navigating since 2020
t.seguritan.abalos
- Jan 14, 2022
- 4 min
Navigating scarcity, shame, & validation as a creative
Photo by my friend CeCe. Beneath the surface, the same insecurities that fueled this feverish approach still affect my creative process
t.seguritan.abalos
- Dec 31, 2021
- 4 min
What eyebrow makeup, visiting home, & the ocean have in common
Many of us grow up idealizing dark eyebrows as an elusive prerequisite to beauty. We equate the natural density of our eyebrows with "less
t.seguritan.abalos
- Dec 18, 2021
- 4 min
Why I love getting tattooed
A year and a half ago, I associated getting tattooed with a lack of direction, of decency & respect for one's body
t.seguritan.abalos
- Sep 26, 2021
- 5 min
On boundaries, limitless content, & the audacity to create
I write about the boundaries I've set (& reset) with social media, why I maintain them, and why I believe we're all storytellers.
t.seguritan.abalos
- Sep 1, 2021
- 5 min
"How do you have a disordered relationship with cooking?"
To heal my relationship with food, weight acceptance hasn't been enough. I need to confront my neglect of cooking.
t.seguritan.abalos
- Jul 2, 2021
- 4 min
Lessons learned from running a Patreon
Yes, it is dizzyingly vulnerable to invite others to support your work financially. And it’s important to cherish what a privilege it is.
t.seguritan.abalos
- Jun 19, 2021
- 2 min
Happy Juneteenth!
Art by Korey Edmonson, Pittsburgh-based artist. Here I share the work of four Black writers/artists/activists who have inspired me deeply.
t.seguritan.abalos
- Mar 26, 2021
- 3 min
Tunes for spaces left in silence
Why would you label a piece of art with a tragedy? Tragedy opens a wound in our collective consciousness, and something is bound to come out
t.seguritan.abalos
- Mar 15, 2021
- 5 min
A year & 52 posts later
To celebrate a year of continuing to create amid overwhelming uncertainty, here are some highlights of my blog.
t.seguritan.abalos
- Jan 15, 2021
- 3 min
Girl struggles with disordered eating, works at bakery counter
"Disordered eating” acknowledges that even if the struggle to eat is invisible & immeasurable, it can still thrive in the mind.
t.seguritan.abalos
- Dec 7, 2020
- 3 min
What a portfolio career looks like for me
When I launched a Patreon, people asked me, "Why don't you focus on teaching flute & tutoring writing, instead?" After all, these are...
t.seguritan.abalos
- Nov 3, 2020
- 3 min
A dream program / a dreary week
Three days ago, I collaborated with oboist Alaina Chester to record the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera's haunting “Pastorale," as...
t.seguritan.abalos
- Sep 1, 2020
- 5 min
Some pointers for my college-freshman-self
I felt guilty about being privileged enough to study music — flute performance, of all things — when it did nothing tangible & measurable
t.seguritan.abalos
- Jun 22, 2020
- 5 min
a lot of updates, a lot of questions
“Do the inner work so you can be the truth in your artistry, performance, writing…” ~ Nathalie Joachim, Grammy-nominated flutist,...
t.seguritan.abalos
- May 10, 2020
- 10 min
My senior capstone!
between the performer’s fragmented cultural identity and the hegemonic force in which classical performance implicates her racialized body
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