by Ivana Filip | Jun 21, 2021 | Animals, Compassion, Creative Exercise, Dogs, Everyday, Home, Nonhumans, Storytelling
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.― Ralph Waldo Emerson This very short story is from my upcoming book that contains short stories and poetry inspired by animals in my life. Not all of...
by Ivana Filip | Jun 7, 2021 | Animals, Cats, Compassion, Creative Exercise, Creativity, Eco, Everyday, Home, Nonhumans, Performance
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. – Rumi Recently I read the book Urban Animals: Crowding in Zoocities by Tora Holmberg about the close coexistence of humans and animals in urban communities. She selects...
by Ivana Filip | May 25, 2021 | Animals, Cats, Compassion, Everyday, Nonhumans, Photography, Storytelling
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”- Martin Luther King Jr.I wrote this short story / biographic note in 2016 for the final thesis while preparing my final exam at the art academy.And the story goes…I saw the opportunity to take my two cats to a...
by Ivana Filip | May 17, 2021 | Animals, Compassion, Eco, Nonhumans, Performance, Storytelling, Video, Works
I wrote “Olgica aka Why do you take it so personal?” short story in 2015 while studying fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie where I enjoyed my second studies and my second youth. I found myself lucky to get accepted to study there as I was, even in my 30ies, so...
by Ivana Filip | May 10, 2021 | Cats, Compassion, Creativity, Eco, Everyday, Home, Nonhumans, Photography, Storytelling
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were...