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~ 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
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
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
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.

A daughter's open letter to her parents about her tattoos

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...

on seashells, mourning, & a tattoo I won’t get (just yet)

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.

In the arts, do we have to tell our own stories?

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

When you look nothing like your headshots (& other vignettes on beauty)

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.

It isn't about beauty (except for when it is)

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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