In the last few days, my first AI Art collection gained two more new pieces.
Maria and Ximena are the latest images released in the Incendiaries collection.
Below I describe a little more about these two characters. I hope you enjoy them.
Ximena
European colonization in Latin American countries forced the native peoples to convert to Christianity and abandon their own ancestral beliefs.Women who were seen as healers and had enormous knowledge about the power of medicinal herbs came to be considered witches and were badly regarded.
"The process of erasing local cultures and stifling women's practices of care and healing has marked not only the history of Brazil, but that of most of the colonies. In the West, the domination of women and native peoples has its origins in the witch-hunts carried out by "civilized" Europeans," VALMORBIDA, Jessica in "Colonizing lands, women and knowledges" for Mina Art Magazine #6, 2022.
"Dominating women also required minimizing their knowledges. There was a great work of the Inquisition "to eradicate the magical and heretical beliefs" that constituted women's knowledge" VALMORBIDA, Jessica in "Colonizing lands, women and knowledge" for Mina Art Magazine #6, 2022.
The witch - as she was called by the Inquisition - "was a woman gifted with knowledge, she was a healer, the woman who today would be considered a doctor, and who by the way was very popular within her community," says Silvia Federici, in an interview for Boitempo Publisher.
Maria
For most religions, there are only two roles for women: the virgin or the prostitute.
Being concerned with people's sex lives is a fundamental part of the religious agenda around the world, and in Christian religions, for example, there is even greater concern in guiding these sexualities, which as we all know are so plural, according to their prescriptions.
According to the article "Sexuality, Christianity and Power", by Bruna Amaral Dantas, "in the first centuries of the Christian era, theological treatises praised female virginity and attacked marriage with the purpose of convincing women to avoid it. In their texts, theologians warned the female audience of the dangers of marriage and encouraged women's chastity."
Christianity holds the dogma of the virgin birth of Jesus, where Mary would have conceived Jesus miraculously by keeping herself a virgin, that is, without sexual intercourse. Why is it so important that Jesus was born of a virgin?
Why does the Church try so hard, even today, to control female sexuality and what is the threat that a free woman brings to its dogmas?
Let the labels of saint or whore turn to ashes
Incendiaries Collection
The Incendiaries collection is minted at Tezos Blockchain and if you are an NFT collector, you can check out the entire series here.