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The story so
far:
AmazingAmazone was born on a wall: she was only a small
tag. It wasn't satisfying enough for her creator to write on walls
so the grafittiname lasted a short life and the owner decided to
dedicate her energy to another hip hop element: DJ-ing.
That
owner am I, Esmée Laclé. Indeed there is native South American blood
(Arowak)
(mixed with French blood) gushing through my veins, but my tribe -
the
Caiquetio
- are original from the Orinoco
basin in Venezuela, and not from the Amazon delta. Amazons
are mythical. They are first referred to in ancient Greek and Persian mythology and art. Conquistadores in South-America were told there existed an alike tribe of female warriors living somewhere in the Amazon area. Nobody has ever seen them in post-Columbian times or
knows what truth underlies this story. The army of Dahomey(Benin) used female warriors too. Of all of these tribes it was
said that the women were fierce and courageous fighters, more so
than their men.
The moment I chose my
name I was only fooling around with my skateboard and occasionally
with a snow- or surfboard and rode my bicycle. That was all. I was
taking great liberties naming myself an amazone, especially an
amazing one. Still I decided to keep it for the wheels
of steel.
Now I've earned my drivers' license, learned to ride Icelandic horses,
snowboarding, surfing and diving, so in that sense I fulfilled my
name: I've become a versatile amazone.
Versatile because my skills are very diverse: only this year I've been researching the quantitative input for a youth trend workshop and -report, given a reading on a case study for a workshop on diversity marketing and was researcher and assistant to the producer for the youth series Couscous and Cola for Dutch television broadcaster BNN, on location in New York (City and State). All this next to my regular jobs at Motivaction and Imagine IC
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