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Anastasia Sierra Explores Motherhood, Aging, and Memory in 'The Witching Hour'

📰 Original title: The Witching Hour

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#culture #motherhoodphotography #familydynamics #emotionallabor

Anastasia Sierra Explores Motherhood, Aging, and Memory in 'The Witching Hour'

This interview features photographer Anastasia Sierra discussing her ongoing project 'The Witching Hour,' a cinematic and emotionally layered photographic series that explores motherhood, aging, and family dynamics. Sierra works with her young son and aging father as central figures, creating staged, dreamlike domestic scenes that blur the boundaries between reality, memory, and psychological space. The project evolved from her earlier work 'Bittersweet,' which focused on early motherhood and identity shifts during isolation, into a more complex narrative reflecting intergenerational coexistence under one roof. Sierra describes photography as a deeply personal and intuitive medium that helps her process mixed emotions that are difficult to articulate in words. Her work is influenced by cinematic storytelling and surrealist aesthetics, with carefully composed images created in natural light within her home. The series reflects themes of emotional labor, care, distance, and the passage of time, especially as her father’s aging intersects with her own experience of raising a child. A key emotional tension in the project comes from cultural and linguistic barriers between family members, as well as the physical and emotional distance shaped by migration and loss. Sierra also reflects on the death of her mother, her transcontinental life between Russia and the United States, and the war that has limited travel, all of which intensify the themes of separation and longing. Through photography, Sierra constructs a parallel world where intimacy, play, fear, and absence coexist. She emphasizes that the images do not aim to resolve emotional conflict but to hold and explore it. Ultimately, 'The Witching Hour' becomes a visual space where personal history, familial relationships, and subconscious fears merge into a shared, poetic environment.

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Anastasia Sierra Explores Motherhood, Aging, and Memory in 'The Witching Hour'

📰 Original title: The Witching Hour

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/anastasia-sierra-explores-motherhood-aging-and-memory-in-the-witching-hour.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social

#culture #motherhoodphotography #familydynamics #emotionallabor

Anastasia Sierra Explores Motherhood, Aging, and Memory in 'The Witching Hour'

This interview features photographer Anastasia Sierra discussing her ongoing project 'The Witching Hour,' a cinematic and emotionally layered photographic series that explores motherhood, aging, and family dynamics. Sierra works with her young son and aging father as central figures, creating staged, dreamlike domestic scenes that blur the boundaries between reality, memory, and psychological space. The project evolved from her earlier work 'Bittersweet,' which focused on early motherhood and identity shifts during isolation, into a more complex narrative reflecting intergenerational coexistence under one roof. Sierra describes photography as a deeply personal and intuitive medium that helps her process mixed emotions that are difficult to articulate in words. Her work is influenced by cinematic storytelling and surrealist aesthetics, with carefully composed images created in natural light within her home. The series reflects themes of emotional labor, care, distance, and the passage of time, especially as her father’s aging intersects with her own experience of raising a child. A key emotional tension in the project comes from cultural and linguistic barriers between family members, as well as the physical and emotional distance shaped by migration and loss. Sierra also reflects on the death of her mother, her transcontinental life between Russia and the United States, and the war that has limited travel, all of which intensify the themes of separation and longing. Through photography, Sierra constructs a parallel world where intimacy, play, fear, and absence coexist. She emphasizes that the images do not aim to resolve emotional conflict but to hold and explore it. Ultimately, 'The Witching Hour' becomes a visual space where personal history, familial relationships, and subconscious fears merge into a shared, poetic environment.

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Psychotherapy Commission ACPE May 10

The article examines how viewing empathy as a finite resource in romantic relationships is linked to depressive moods, showing that zero-sum beliefs lead to reduced partner empathy and heightened distress. It also explores two pathways: preemptive withdrawal and vigilant scorekeeping regarding emotional exchanges, both predicting greater depressive symptoms.

This topic is of interest to psychology readers because it highlights how cognitive frames about social resources shape everyday emotional behavior and mental health within intimate relationships, illustrating mechanisms of affect regulation and interpersonal dynamics.

Article Title: Keeping strict emotional score with a romantic partner is connected to depressive moods

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/why-treating-relationship-empathy-as-a-limited-resource-harms-your-mental-health/

#empathy #zero-sum #romanticrelationships #depression #interpersonaldynamics #emotionallabor #psychology #mentalhealth #relationships #cognitivebias

knizer May 6

Hi! CW because complicated holiday for some - a courtesy reminder that Mother's Day is SUNDAY, 10 May. The USPS is kinda slow these days, if you're mailing something, get sending today... And if this is a hard day for you due to loss or absence or whatever reason, I send hugs.
#EmotionalLabor #MothersDay

Tina Okoli-Azzalarab May 2

Wait… Are We Friends With Them Now?

Hey everyone, it’s Tina. Pull up a chair, grab a snack, and let’s have a real “heart-to-heart” about something that has been testing my blood pressure lately.

I saw a quote today that hit me so hard I nearly dropped my phone. It said:

“I was beefing with folks cause of YOU… now y’all cool? Ok 😂”

When I tell you I felt that in my soul! If you’ve ever been the “ride or die” friend, you know exactly the kind of betrayal-induced vertigo I’m talking about.

The Evolution of “Second-Hand Beef”

We’ve all been there. You have that one friend—let’s call her “Messy Martha.” Martha comes to you crying, or venting, or full-on screaming because someone “wronged” her. Naturally, as a good friend, I don’t just listen. No, I suit up. I put on my metaphorical war paint.

Suiting Up for a War You Didn’t Start

If Martha hates them, I hate them. I’m out here giving that person the side-eye at the grocery store. I’m deleting their number. I’m ready to write a 500-word dissertation on why they are the villain in the story of life. I am invested.

I’ve basically burnt a bridge I didn’t even build, all in the name of loyalty.

The Instagram Revelation

Then, two weeks later, I’m scrolling through Instagram and what do I see? A picture of Martha and the “Enemy” at brunch. Smiling. Toasting mimosas. Captioned: “Good vibes only! 🥂”

Excuse me? I’m sitting here still holding a grudge for a crime I didn’t even witness, and you’re over there sharing avocado toast with the person you told me was “dead to you” last Tuesday?

The “Bitter Friend” Trap

Now I’m the one looking like the bitter, crazy person because I’m still holding the energy Martha gave me, while Martha has moved on to the “forgiveness and healing” phase without giving me the memo.

I think we do it because we want to show our people that we have their backs. But honestly? It’s exhausting. It’s like being a defense attorney for a client who keeps firing you and rehiring the prosecution.

How to Handle Future Friendship Friction

Tip: Next time a friend comes to you with “beef,” maybe just offer a “That sounds tough” instead of a “Where’s my pitchfork?”

Because at the end of the day, people are going to do what they do. They’ll fight, they’ll make up, and they’ll leave you standing there holding a grudge for a situation that doesn’t even exist anymore.

Share Your Experience

Am I the only one? Please tell me I’m not the only person who has ended up in an awkward “wait, we like them now?” situation.

Have you ever “un-friended” someone for a friend, only for them to become besties again?
How do you handle being the “loyal” one when the story keeps changing?

Drop your stories in the comments—I need to know I’m not alone in this madness!

#Adultingrealities #accountability #bloganuary #EmotionalLabor #friendshipDrama #loyaltyInFriendships #personalGrowth #protectingYourPeace #rideOrDieCulture #socialBoundaries #storiesFromTina #toxicFriendships

Rana Apr 21

What's a patriarch's favorite paradox?
Women are too emotional to lead, but also responsible for managing everyone's emotions

#Feminism #Patriarchy #EverydaySexism #EmotionalLabor

Christian Albert Apr 12

As If Designed!

Installing What Blooms in Silence explored what happens inside one person when the protocol runs unchecked. This series examines the architecture that installs the protocol in the first place. The sorting begins before the first word. Blue onesie. Truck, not doll. A room painted and furnished along a template the child never saw. The mobile above the crib: rockets, not butterflies. The first blanket: cars, not flowers. None of this determines who the child becomes. It determines the […]

https://christianalbert.photography/as-if-designed/

Ms. Que Banh Apr 1

If any of you #men following me missed my mutuals' post - expressing gratitude for men who stepped up & helped take on some of the emotional labour than women have shouldered - please read it, first:

https://disabled.social/@vlrny/116325171044986558

Then - make your own decision on whether to be a silent enabler of misogyny or a comrade to women who have to deal with misogynist wankerbutternoodles here.
You also can choose to support anti-ableism by speaking out against it, in public (like many women already have!) or keep on silently enabling it by choosing to be friendly to ableists who are also misogynistic.

Many women & disabled folks are watching. We notice who steps up & who does not. You can do better than stay silent about misogynists - as men - that call has to come, loudly, from within the mens' arena. You can do better than silently enable ableism - that call has to come from non-disabled folks.

Stop being OK with letting women & disabled folks take more hits - because you lack courage to take some of the emotional labour off our overburdened backs.

*You're supposed to feel some discomfort reading this - if you've failed to use your privileges as men to do better than be silent enablers of your fellow men.*

#AllMen #PeopleWithDisabilities #StopMisogyny
#StopAbleism #BraveUp #GrowSomeCourage #EmotionalLabor #Intersectionality #DoBetterMen #Patriarchy #Enablers

Valerie Roney (@[email protected])

There've been a couple of cultural dust ups on fedi in the last few weeks and I just wanted to thank the men who've boosted and uplifted the voices of women calling bullshit, and especially those taking the time to talk to men individually trying to explain why they are out of line. Women often complain (justifiably!) about having to do all the emotional labour in social settings and it is just so beautiful to see men stepping up. Serious respect, mah dudes! 💪🧡 #tonicMasculinity

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