THE PERIOD PIECES....
"I am trying to make something beautiful and utilitarian out of something that which in the past has only been a painful useless burden." Lani Beloso
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."
— Pablo Picasso
"Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art."
— Pablo Picasso
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."
— Pablo Picasso
"Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art."
— Pablo Picasso
COMING SOON
By Artist Lani Beloso
The Canvases
A year long endeavor, The Period Piece, is a collection of menstrual mixed media paintings by the artist. Each piece incorporates the entire product of the artist's cycle.
From Conception to Fruition
As a long sufferer of dysmenorrhea, the artist often remarked that it was astonishing that she did not bleed to death each month. Curious to the amount of blood that actually came out of her, she set out to sit over a canvas for the entire period. The first piece in the series is that first attempt in which she sat over a canvas for 12 hours. Now, she collects the entire product and then utilizes it within each piece. Each piece reflects the mood, location, feeling and setting of each ones creation.
The Artist
Lani is a Florida native and an only child of immigrant British and Filipino parents. Childless, she has held a life long fascination with beauty, the female form and the inner workings of the human body. Lani worked as a model while attending art school as a young adult and later went to college for nuclear medicine. She is currently both working photographer and retains a license in Nuclear Medicine. She is versed in taking photos of the human body both from the inside and out. Now in her latest project she physically and mentally leaves a piece of herself on the canvas.
