by Ivana Filip | stu 1, 2021 | Animals, Cats, Compassion, Home, Inspiration, Nonhumans
“We stand for our rights and we roooooooooar!” — From the Manifesto of Catopia, by Ivana Filip and Catpeople Free roaming cats are cats who were once pets, but were lost or left outside and cats born outside, with no or very little contact with humans. Authors...
by Ivana Filip | lip 7, 2021 | Animals, Cats, Compassion, Creative Exercise, Creativity, Eco, Everyday, 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 | svi 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 | svi 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...