t.seguritan.abalos
art as abundance & social media
Wondering out loud about visibility, growth, and creativity. A danger of social media is less what we're shown, more what we're left to...
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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
- May 13, 2022
- 2 min
why I'm (still) getting tattooed
I learned the hard way that I'd changed this body in hopes of escaping what it was. I thought the changes were healing
t.seguritan.abalos
- Feb 8, 2022
- 3 min
thoughts on body image
Editing my Instagram profile, I caught myself replacing a recent picture of myself with one from over a year ago — when I weighed less
t.seguritan.abalos
- Oct 27, 2021
- 6 min
Wearing a face after a year of masks
Self-portraiture is a way to witness myself on my own terms. I had given all power of seeing & conferring worth to a white, heteronormative
t.seguritan.abalos
- Jul 16, 2021
- 4 min
Three small acts of bravery
I write about stepping away from social media, improvising, & healing from disordered eating.
t.seguritan.abalos
- May 14, 2021
- 2 min
A daughter's open letter to her parents about her tattoos
Photo by my friend Grace. "Half a year and a half-sleeve later, I wonder if you can look at the woman I’ve become without seeing a failure."
t.seguritan.abalos
- Mar 3, 2021
- 3 min
a woman & her freshly-shaven head
How could I explain to them, that to be a woman is not simply to be seen in her body? Two men snickered as I walked by. One young, one...
t.seguritan.abalos
- Feb 3, 2021
- 4 min
on seashells, mourning, & a tattoo I won’t get (just yet)
The other day, I noticed a pull towards sadness so I followed it to its roots and found three reasons
t.seguritan.abalos
- Dec 27, 2020
- 4 min
savoring the bitter & the sweet
"To be seen is a protest" ~ atiya jones, multidisciplinary artist. A year ago, if you told me I would shave my head & get tattoos in 2020,
t.seguritan.abalos
- Nov 22, 2020
- 5 min
some thoughts on femininity
Usually, I maintain a strict divide between this blog and my personal writing. Today, one spills into the other so this is some raw...
t.seguritan.abalos
- Oct 11, 2020
- 2 min
Why body image?
One of my dreams is to be a writer in an anthology on belonging, body image, & cultural identity. To some, body image may seem out of place.
t.seguritan.abalos
- Jul 16, 2020
- 3 min
In the arts, do we have to tell our own stories?
My presence — my creative decisions, my body as a performer — carries a story that deserves to be told, just as much as the timeless, transc
t.seguritan.abalos
- May 29, 2020
- 4 min
When you look nothing like your headshots (& other vignettes on beauty)
I tend to revise creative writing long after I think it's finished. So if you return now & then, these vignettes might look different.
t.seguritan.abalos
- Mar 14, 2020
- 4 min
It isn't about beauty (except for when it is)
"To perform is to place my body onstage. And to place my body onstage is to insist I have something worth being seen and heard"
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