Face 19 and 20

Face 20

Face 21

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Karla

Face 9

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Girl holding flowers

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

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Karla

Girl breathing flowers

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

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Karla

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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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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Yes!

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Balzer Designs

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My Wish / Meu Desejo

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Close your eyes / Fecha os olhos

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For Love / Por Amor

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

This is one of my favourite quotes ever.

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Truly, Madly, Deeply

All the windows of my heart I open to the day. 

~John Greenleaf Whittier

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Metamorphosis / Metamorfose

The soul is a butterfly...there's an instant in which a voice tells us that the moment of a great metamorphosis has arrived.

Rubem Alves

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Here are more pages of the book I have been altering. I still have a long way ahead.Hope I can finish by December. Rubem Alves is one of my favourite writers. He's Brazilian like me. He passed away this year. I guess he must be playing in heavens.

Estou alterando um livro, transformando cada página em algo só meu. Ele está recheado de citações, desenhos, pinturas, colagens, pensamentos e preocupações. É um pouco de mim em forma de arte.

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Karla

The Awakening

Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time. 

 ~Deborah Chaskin

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Girl at the window

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” 
― Coco Chanel

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T stands for Friends

Hello My Good Friends!

It's been awhile since I joined you for T stands for Tuesday. Paint Party Friday and also Show your Face. So many sad things happened. I lost my cousin who was like a brother to me. How difficult it's been to face the fact he's not here anymore. We are still in mourning and it will take long to get over our pain and sadness. We are devastated. Time will heal us. Time always heals. 

I made a journal page and I want to share it with you.

I think art journaling is a therapy. It keeps my mind off my problems and helps me to cure my heart.

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” 
― Anne Lamott

Have an inspiring week!

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Karla

Samira & Samara

Face 25 - Samira

Face 26- Samara

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Karla

Daisy

Face 24 - Daisy

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