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This is the entrance to the Palais de Justice in Brussels, one of the biggest and most imposing buildings in Europe, and the place where you go when you are very, very bad. I’ve been there, but got lost in all the maze of padded courtrooms and archive offices… then slipped out the back door before anyone could find me. Very Kafka. Taken on Kodak T-Max, neg scanned to digital.
This woman is a victim of a seemingly never ending war in southern congo. She has suffered sexual violence (rape) so severe it has rendered her incontinent. She now exists purely as a result of a courageous charity called Heal Africa, and indeed her own inner strength and faith. I asked her if I could take her portrait and she stood up (which must have been painful), straightened her back and stared straight down the lens. No stopping to straighten her scarf, no preening, no fear. Just an honesty so raw, so uninhibited and so rare, I caught my breath and thought I’d never breath again. I was totally overpowered by her intensity. After I took the shot and showed it to her she smiled and thanked me. It still gives me a shiver to look at it now. HEAL Africa calendar available now!!! CLICK HERE. /
I caught these guys at Parklife 2008 (a music festival in Melbourne, Australia.) they absolutely rocked the shit out of it.
Lady Justice framed art print, poster card and laminated print. Lady Justice has been given a face lift, body lift and new wardrobe for the 21st century. The double edged sword represents reason and justice, the scales are to measure the strength and oppostion and the blindfold shows she is without favour. Image copyright © 2008, Shanina Conway. / Reproduction, displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited
Self Portrait 2008 / Pashmina silk scarf from Thailand. Series / Part II Slow Breathe
“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” Mark Twain Liberty requires the blood of innocents. FEATURED by C.O.R.E. FEATURED by Art Action Union FEATURED by Underground USA Go here to read about Bringer of Liberty / MCN:CCBC9-9556E-CDDAC Excerpt from Active Art CLICK HERE to read more So many have died for Liberty; or so we’ve been told that is why they died. © 2008 Helen Bascom Digital Collage composed of Public Domain Images / From Library of Congress and other Sources Statue of liberty public domain image Lynching images public domain Without Sanctuary Images of Nagasaki The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett Click Here for the rest of the story
In honor of the efforts of Kathleen and her groups’ Art Blog for Peace, where we blog our hearts out for 2009 in Peace, here is my contribution… “Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity or quietism.” Dorothy Thompson My Peace Blogs: PEACE CANDLES Writing4Peace Alliance for a new Humanity Tribute to Peace MUSIC Happy New Year – 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HAVE A DREAM / THAT HIS DREAM WILL NEVER DIE / THAT PEOPLE OF ALL COLORS, ALL RELIGIONS / WILL BE AS ONE / I HAVE A DREAM / THAT KENNEDY, BIKO, MALCOLM X, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. / DID NOT DIE IN VAIN / I HAVE A DREAM / /
Lilith still reigns as a symbol of independent, life-loving, justice-seeking women who have been depicted in art, history and literature as sexual predators, demons, evil spirits and harlots. She may have been considered both warrior and seductress; I view neither of these as negatives. If she is shown as one who tricked men, I believe it was to teach them lessons; if she was blamed for inciting their lust, so have all women taken the blame for male desire in a world where sexuality is held sinful. / If we are to believe she kills mortals, can we not view her as we do the male god, as one who ‘giveth and taketh away’, who ends human life as He, divine ruler, deems necessary, or simply to maintain the balance of the Universe? Why do the qualities we admire in a male god make so little sense to us when embodied by a female deity that we demonize her? Why are they so threatening? Written by Deborah Grenn-Scott, M.A., Women’s Spirituality, is founder and director of The Lilith Institute. Painting using acrylics, pigment and gold leaf / 100×42 cm / Music / Metamorphosis One – Philip Glass 13th September 2008
Featured in The Divine Feminine and Painted Ladies groups Acrylic on 9×12 canvas board – a little inspiration from my favorite artist, Erte! She is a sky goddess, guardian of the stars and night sky, she’s the one that makes the sun set and the moon rise. She also stands as Justice one of the Major Arcana cards in a tarot deck. The two most important laws governed by Justice are really two sides of the same coin. First comes the law of cause and effect, stating that all events are connected and each present state is the result of all past states. This is a such strange idea to get your mind around because sometimes seemlingly meaningless actions will have great ramifications. Justice shows that every action you do will eventually have an effect, someday, and you really have no idea of knowing what that event is until it happens. Often the figure on the Justice card is pictured sitting in front of a curtain; this curtain hides the machinations of the universe that bring about these final results. From the law of cause and order develops the law of Karma, showing that all your actions will return to you eventually. They will be modified slightly, and they are often strengthened over time, but the lesson is still the same. As you sow, so shall you reap. This is really a simple elaboration of the law of cause and effect. Under this new law, not only will everything you do have an effect, everything you do will have an effect on you. This is where it becomes critical to be mindful of your actions, because everything you take will come back to you eventually. Before Justice, you have to answer for all your actions, right and wrong. Life, if nothing else, is fair. She raises her curtain to start a sunset or to bring on the night, all the while, behind it, the universe stirs. She is cause and effect embodied, Every sunset she makes sets into motion the timing for the next day. She governs the laws of the universe.
This was a lot more cheery and colorful before uploading it onto RedBubble. (i’m not sure why the colors are sooo off over there!) The inspiration behind this new series (as if I needed another one, I know, I can’t help it!) is the tub, toilet, and sink in my new house. This house was built in the 50’s and let me tell you, it shows. My bathroom pieces are this funky robin’s egg blue….way retro. Anyways, I was trying to think of a creative way to keep the funky blue stuff but somehow decorate around it so…I’ve been dooding a series of my family in different bathroom scenes (sorry y’all, no real nudity!) with the colors of my bathroom. There you have it…my inspiration. In the print that I am going to buy of this one, the bathtub is a cheery yellow and the bubbles and parts of the shower curtain are that retro blue…as if you cared to know that! :D
The Sheriff Court Haddington East Lothian. This is a reworked image previously posted here on the bubble. Refreshed as it were. /
“It is not about punishment, good, bad, right or wrong. It is about adjustment. The sword suggests that sometimes this won’t be pleasant. Justice pares things down with that sword so that the scales end up equal. The message is to do what’s necessary, no matter how hard, how disagreeable, in order to gain, or re-gain equilibrium. It is not a nice card, but in its way, it is a very wise card.”
And the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. / And the city had no need of the sun, / neither of the moon, / to shine in it: / Revelation 21:18 & 23 Fractal rendered in Apophysis (in all humility).
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