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. /
Digital recreation of a silkscreen print from the show at Fort Gondo in St.Louis.
There seems to be a storm brewing up over Belmont in Lincolnshire. This amazing field full of poppies is supposed to be a field of oil seed rape, the supplies to the farmers allegedly top up the rape seeds with the cheaper poppy seeds.
i have been trying to work on more postive paintings …..but it seems the more postive I go the wose I feel…..kinda like someone rubbing your face in their happiness when you are feeling down …. so sometimes getting that little bit of crazy out makes me feel a whole lot better….
“If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.” / ~ Rene Magritte
Photo taken some years ago on the Lincolnshire Wolds. In the UK, this crop is known as oilseed rape, though it does have other names elsewhere in the world.
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This painting was created with interior house paint on canvas / H26” x W50” / Black Matte Gallery Frame / 2007 / 1800.00 “Faceless,” is dedicated to all the woman and girls who suffer injustices all over the world, and remain faceless to world. Although I created this image in 2007, and had titled it “Girls,” I didn’t fully realize what it meant until just this week. In the news, a husband kills his wife, by placing a plastic bag over her head, hangs her, and flees with the three children after countless please for help to local authorities. A father is convicted of keeping his daughter locked up as a sex slave for 24 years. Daughter now 42. Many females are enslaved, murdered, raped, tortured all over the world, and many more will remain faceless to us. Stop, think, and listen.
Oilseed rape field in full bloom on the outskirts of malvern, Worcestershire, England.
“Nobody see my misery ? / Nobody hear my cries of distress ? / Free me from my fears, / From those dark moments… / Free me from my own prison” / Aimelle©2007 (translated from my original french text -see below) Child abuse awareness work. / I wish so much abuse and (sexual or any violence) stop for them ! :( —> DSLR Sony A-100 + 18-70mm lens uploaded for Images & Ideas group challenge “your best photo conveying an idea” — “Personne ne voit ma détresse ? / Personne n’entend mes s.o.s ? / Libérez-moi de mes peurs, / De ces sombres heures… / Libérez-moi de ma prison intérieure” / Aimelle©2007 Pour la conscientisation du problème d’abus d’enfants (sexuel et toute violence) / J’aimerais tellement que ça cesse pour tous les enfants du monde ! :(
Glorious sun rays bursting across a field in Oxford.
Statue by Jean de Boulogne (Giambologna) / Piazza della Signoria / Florence / Italy. More information…
Taken on Wednesday 4th June 2008. West Lothian, Scotland. Experiment using External Flash to light the Yellow Rape Seed Flowers. BEST VIEWED LARGE
Wörlitzer Park, Germany. A wonderful place and very worth visiting. April 2008. SONY DSC-S90. Please, view more of work here: Photo Gallery / Fine Art on Cards and Paper New Work Blog / Journalize Featured / “Weekly Theme Challenges” / “Dimensions” / Challenge Top Ten / “Typical German” in “German Artists”
Dedication to the Suffering ones,those decimated,raped,tortured,in their own countries, by” whites”in the name of GOD/MONEY/POWER / To the CIVILISATIONS SAID TO BE “UNCIVILISED”who in fact have been more CIVILISED THAN MANY ! / / / Copyright:All Rights Reserved / Registered:Sun Mar 22 17:10:31 UTC 2009 Title:FLORA DE SANGRE / Description:COMPOSITE OF FLORA ON ROCKS / MCN:CCBCB-F8AC0-E7C77
Rapeseed field in rural Austria
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Main scene cropped from The smiling monster This drawing is about a confusing situation of rape by a seemingly good guy, who had no clue it was rape… / The victim is scarred for life, as all victims of sex abuse are. Violent rape by a stranger is more traumatic in one way, but when you are raped by someone you trusted, the damage can be even greater, at times. It’s NOT A PENCIL DRAWING – it’s a pointillistic INK drawing, like all my other drawings.
I took this within minutes of taking this one The circumstances are the same. My profile / / /
Location: / Kingston, Kent, England Map: / Google Maps Date and Time: / 22 April 2009, 3.12 p.m. Camera details: / ISO 200 : f/9 : 1/160 second : 18mm : Nikon D40 : Nikon 18-55mm lens Shot narrative: / Just outside of Kingston on a glorious spring afternoon.
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