THE WARRIORS WITHIN COLLECTIVE

This image is about a journey of transformation from Maiden to all-seeing Mother, or the Life/Death/Life Cycle of being, of manifestation, of transcendence. The thread of life, that which links this world to the other world and all beings, links consciousness to the thread of one's soul and to one's body ...

This piece is actually a self-portrait and is a visual representation of the battle that I sometimes go through in dealing with social anxiety, having to compose myself on the outside while screaming on the inside to get out of some of the environments that may make me feel uncomfortable. This has also reached a broader meaning when it comes to living as a black person in America, especially in the wake of our current social climate. We all have to go about our days and carry on but inside we are all frustrated and angry about what is happening and has continued to happen to our people of color.

Each episode of the VAST series will be centered around one or more related conditions or aspects of ADHD. While bringing these into awareness, I am equally aiming to show that while everyday life may be that much more difficult, the rewards can be equally that much more sweet. My hope within the series is to embrace the good, the bad, the ugly, and the brilliant parts of my own VAST brain; and of yours too. I hope that everyone...

The Hatchling series was a project that ultimately took over a year to come to fruition. In part this was due to prop creation; the egg featured in the series was created from scratch, fashioned from chicken wire, cardboard, and paper mâche. However, I first conjured the idea for the series during a time in my life that was marked by significant trauma and loss....

 "A vast landscape steeped in secrets and mysteries populates the art of Catharina Suleiman."

Through her gaze, the language of the human body leaps to the eye, revealing different forms, senses, gestures, and appeals of the soul. Any notion of truism is put on the sidelines. It is important to know...

 As a child, when I watched films about people with cancer, I thought "no, this will definitely not happen to me."  It seemed to be something that happens only in films, permanent, not amenable to treatment, and taking away all the beauty and vitality...

 A lot of my art is geared towards women. We are Goddesses and I want for us to wake up and realize our worth physically, mentally, sensually & spiritually. I want to help you embrace your divine femininity. And as I create every piece of art...

 By being womb carriers, we are blessed with the sacred ability to create new life from scratch. Whether we chose to or not, or in aligned health to do so or not - that's another story - but the divine fact is...

 Through the superimposition of images that digital work offers me, I question what is "fashionable or not" and the sense of appropriation that this culture has, which is constantly changing. I am not only based on the image culture from fashion, but I am also interested in ideologies, studying lifestyles and social groups, where social networks have become the most...

 I love portraying powerful women that are in touch with their instincts, in harmony with nature and everything that surrounds them. When it comes to art, my deepest desire is ...

 I’m a female Belgian artist who explores what spirituality means and can mean in our modern western society. From a personal point of view, I notice that I am not the only one who is not satisfied with current neoliberal rational thinking. A lot of people miss something: meaning, connection, or maybe magic? In my art practice...

 When you hit 40 it seems like the world tells you that you also no longer hold sex appeal because you have aged. I am not sure when sensuality ever went out of style for women at any age - we just forget that we have to nurture ourselves as much as we do our families, our spouses, and our jobs. Loving yourself and your body is not only natural but it is important for your mental health as well.

I started doing these shoots to remind women...

 You don’t search for something you already have. 

You cannot be who you truly are until you can remember, what you already know. Upon the remembering, the ancestors will be able to intervene in all the good ways they can.  That includes helping you with all the things you cannot know about until you have allowed yourself to be swallowed in the awakening of remembering, your wildish sacred nature, a  woman. The wild woman is an endangered species, and more necessary now than ever.  Remembering means...

 My surrealist language is free from reason and it takes the photographic medium out of its conventional objective role, offering bizarre realities that often invite interpretation. With visual delicacy, dreamy atmosphere, and disturbing charge as ingredients, I distort and bend the idea of beauty, fusing it with a sense of the grotesque....

 As the rocks are washed, a little more is shown to us. The women before us have taken the harshest waves and we can see the lines, we can see the way, now to go the way with compassion and trust. This is the present woman’s healing. To deepen the lines of love for future women. 

Whilst we carry many forms of passed-down energy in our present adult lives, we are born worthy, ready,  full of creation and magic...

I am a huge nature lover and I would describe my expression on the canvas as reflections derived from my subconscious mind, collected impulses I am finding in nature.  I used to spend a pretty significant amount of time in the forest and in my garden. Sometimes...

 I interact with landscapes and include my body in them as an element of the composition.

I use digital processing, combining several images of myself, made from one point, into one. But all of them are real phases of my body during this long-term movement...

This piece is called Moon Child. It represents divine strength as well as the gentle listening of our spirit, our higher selves. The antlers in this painting represent the beginning of a cycle of growth and change. They symbolize the tools needed for perseverance and protection on our journey. The extra set of eyes and the third eye represents...

 These photos were taken during the creative course at the Marusina Workshop. When the assignment was given, strange pictures began to occur to me, and I am happy that I have a model ready to support any crazy idea. For me, these photos are about the desire to free myself from the shackles of...

 As the world undergoes this massive transformation, it is important that we dive deep into who we are, the warriors within us (holding our greatest powers), and the creative resources that help us navigate them. ..

 In many countries, the problem of domestic violence is widespread and usually occurs in married couples.  In these cases, a woman finds herself in the position of a victim. She is often not even protected by the law.  In my country, this problem is especially acute.  Looking at this difficult situation, as an artist and a woman...