Face 16

Hello everybody! Hope life has been treating you well. It's been a long time since I linked up with PPF.It's a pleasure to be with you again. 

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Karla

Poetical me

Hello my lovelies.  How are you today? Hope life has been treating you well. Although it is summer here and needless to say it is steaming hot and unbearable most of times, I have been painting flowers. I decided to create journal pages using watercolor. to adorn my poems and affirmations.. It is going to be my visual poetry book. Why watercolor? Because it is a challenge for me. The right page was done using watercolor pencils but the left one was pure watercolor and it was fun to use brushes to paint. I finished altering a book and it took me three years to do that. I started in october 2015 and finished this year. It is a mix of everything but there is no watercolor in it so this one is just for my studies in watercolor. Therefore right now I am creating two books. One is just for cut and paste collages and oil pastels drawings and the other is just for watercolor and poetry/ affirmations. I don't know if I will have time from February on to dedicate myself to my watercolors because I will start work. I am on holidays. What a bless! Besides poetry is so demanding. It needs so much from me. Words are so complex to weave but I love them as much as I love painting, drawing and digital art.

I have just found a quote to celebrate poetry:

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. 

― Dennis Gabor

I have been plucking at my heartstrings with my art and poetry.

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Karla

Your majesty. the pig

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” 
― Winston S. Churchill

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Karla

Girl and Bird

Dear Friends!

I am sorry I haven't had time to leave comments because it's the end of term here and I've been correcting tests. Even the lady above is an old creation. As soon as I have time I will be visiting you. Thank you!

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Karla

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Face 9

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Girl holding flowers

“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.” 
― Heinrich Hein

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Thanks so much for your visit and comment!

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Karla

Girl breathing flowers

“I must have flowers, always, and always.” 
― Claude Monet

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A little bird

When I created my girl, I had no idea I'd find a quote to match it. But then voilà! The quote reflects what I've been through too!

I used oil pastels, acrylics, ink pens and stamps.

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Karla

She moves in mysterious ways...

Here is another song whose lyrics are quite inspiring and one of my favourite ones. I don't know why the chorus reminds me of a geisha. Maybe because they are fascinating and delicate.

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Karla

Balance

It's been awhile since I created something for Paint Party Friday and Show your Face. Sometimes life pulls the rug from under our feet and we get lost. It is weird when our creative juices can't flow because we are disconnected from our own selves, because  we are forced to leave our comfort zone and accept unwanted changes. Yet, life does go on whether we are prepared or not for the challenges ahead. I guess all we can do is to pray to have strength and carry on.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. -Shunryu Suzuki

And yes, I can't accept the truth of transience. But I am healing. It's just a matter of time.

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Faith

Hello My Lovelies!

This year's been quite tough in so many ways. But I've learnt that faith is like air. It has kept me breathing and strong. My faith is unshakeable. I know life is a hard mission and we all have our crosses to carry.So if you are being tested, don't lose your faith: there's always light in the end of the tunnel.

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” 
― J.R.R. Tolkien

Acreditar Sempre = Always Believe

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Karla

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Be an angel

Angels have no philosophy but love. 
~Terri Guillemets


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Klara

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King, Jr 

Racism as Expression of Group Dominance

The most important and most far reaching forms of social inequality today are related to group relations based on gender, class and ethnic background. [Inequality on the basis of age, sexual orientation, and physical or mental handicap also plays a role.] Gender, class and ethnicity are influential concepts of social organization and processes of signification. Historically, specific mechanisms of group dominance have produced and reproduced these forms of social inequality. Racism is a typical expression of group dominance (Van Dijk, 1993: 18-48). Racism as a system of social inequality implies that social groups do not have equal access to and control over material and immaterial social resources. At the material level, these resources include employment, income and housing. Immaterial resources, however, are of equal concern, including education, knowledge, information and access to the social networks and means of communication instrumental in public debates (such as the media, politics, the judicial system, the educational system and the welfare sector). Discourse occupies a central position as far as these immaterial resources are concerned. Discursive representations imbue social practices with meaning and thus legitimate social inequality and the daily organization of dominance and exclusion. This also implies, among other things, that ethnic groups do not have control over their representation in public discourse. Few professionals working in the field of communication such as journalists, opinion makers, writers, politicians and teachers are from ethnic minorities. With a few exceptions, ethnic minority groups are represented in public debate, in the press, in politics, in scientific literature and in schoolbooks by opinion makers originating from the majority group (Van Dijk, 1993). Crucial for understanding the phenomenon of racism is the observation that racism not only refers to overt and violent forms of social domination and exclusion but also to more indirect and subtle forms expressed in daily practices, including through discursive practices. It should, however, be stressed that racism is not considered a mental property of individual persons, but rather a dynamically changing dimension of social practices.

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Snowflakes and roses

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Blue /Azul.

It is weird to think of snow when it is so hot here. It is summer and it's been sunny during the morning and windy in the evening. I used oil pastels with turpentine to colour the girl and the bear but the snow was added digitally. 

A neve foi adicionada digitalmente. Usei óleo pastel e terebentina para pintar a menina e o ursinho.

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Choice / Escolha

“ You Chose 

You chose.

You chose.

You chose.

You chose to give away your love.

You chose to have a broken heart. 

You chose to give up. 

You chose to hang on.

You chose to react.

You chose to feel insecure.

You chose to feel anger.

You chose to fight back.

You chose to have hope.

You chose to be naïve. 

You chose to ignore your intuition.

You chose to ignore advice.

You chose to look the other way. 

You chose to not listen. 

You chose to be stuck in the past. 

You chose your perspective. 

You chose to blame. 

You chose to be right.

You chose your pride. 

You chose your games.

You chose your ego.

You chose your paranoia. 

You chose to compete.

You chose your enemies.

You chose your consequences.

You chose.

You chose.

You chose.

You chose.

However, you are not alone. Generations of women in your family have chosen. Women around the world have chosen. We all have chosen at one time in our lives. We stand behind you now screaming: 

Choose to let go.
Choose dignity. 
Choose to forgive yourself.
Choose to forgive others.
Choose to see your value.
Choose to show the world you’re not a victim.
Choose to make us proud.” 

― Shannon L. Alder

Here we go, my friends.More one creative year.Let us dissolve our emotions in colors and images in magic.Happy New Year!

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 Karla

My Wish / Meu Desejo

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Close your eyes / Fecha os olhos

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Faith / Fé

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