a cold bath, lulu ???

© luisa brehm

Baby, helppppp !!! i’m melting !!!

For Illustration Friday

well, to tell the true clean doesn’t inspire me at all,
i was here breaking my head drawing deleting drawing nana, i said .....
i had this one from Diary of Lulu, i guess it’s clean enough ;-)))))))
and i wanted to post it here anyway while it's tooooo much hot ……

While there is a lower class, I am in it;
while there is a criminal element, I am of it;
and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

- Eugene Debs -

Bush to Open New Maximum-Security Jail at Guantanamo
Check out this article from Truthout

heart of fire

© luisa brehm

We are .........

We are part fire and part dream.
We are the physical mirroring of Miaheyyun,
the Total Universe, upon this earth, our Mother.

We are here to experience.
We are a movement of a hand within millions of seasons,
a wink of touching within millions and millions of sun fires.
And we speak with the mirroring of the sun.

- Firedog -
Cheyenne Nation

toni aging

© luisa brehm

to reach the sky .....

Nebraska rejects electric chair challenge
Check out this article from CNN

Detainee Abuse Charges Feared

On Prosecuting Detainees
Check out these articles from The Washington Post

Dream Variations

To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me--
That is my dream!

To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Till the quick day is done.
Rest at pale evening . . .
A tall, slim tree . . .
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.

- Langston Hughes -

murmur of tears

it could be a cloud, it could be a star ..... or only tears .....
from kids who lost their parents in fucking wars,
parents who lost their kids in the electric chair or hanged
somewhere ..... from the forgotten, the oppressed ones .....
who knows their names ???
my ocean has the whole cry within !!! including mine .....

© luisa brehm

When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood,
the thickest and most interminable, and, to the citizen,
most dismal swamp.
I enter a swamp as a sacred place-a sanctum sanctorum.
There is the strength-the marrow of Nature.

- Henry David Thoreau -
Walking, 1851

the burden

© luisa brehm
for Illustration Friday

the world walks on us night and day day and night
not the opposite .....
( it's big but i'm not able to upload a little now ;-))))))) )

A very great vision is needed
and the man who has it must follow it
as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.

- Crazy Horse (Tashunka Witko) -

Grandma’ house

i grew up here feeding lizards and playing with bees .....
there is not a such beautiful place anywhere
all is gone now
i never understood why time makes webs if it’s only a tear
well, may be it is the webs of memory .....
the heart keeps everything alive, isn’t it ???

© luisa brehm

Child

Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
I want to fill it with color and ducks,
The zoo of the new
Whose names you meditate ---
April snowdrop, Indian pipe,
Little

Stalk without wrinkle,
Pool in which images
Should be grand and classical

Not this troublous
Wringing of hands, this dark
Ceiling without a star.

- Sylvia Plath -

nite, Baby !!!

© luisa brehm

from Diary of Lulu, an illustrated book with legends,
still under construction .....
this is lulu with her huge cheeks and toni the cat ;-)))))))
the diary is dedicated to my Baby Love,
because i began this story for him.

Resistance

We want to be free of a value system
that is being imposed on us.
We do not want to participate in that value system.
We don't want to change that value system.
We want to remove it from our lives forever.
We must never underestimate our enemy.
Our enemy is committed against us twenty-four hours a day.
They use one hundred percent of their effort
to maintain their materialistic status quo.
One hundred percent of their effort goes into deceiving us
and manipulating us against each other.
We have to devote our lives, we have to make our commitment,
we have to follow a way of life that says we are going
to resist that forever ... a resistance:
something that we can pass on as strength to the coming generations.
A resistance where organizational egos don't get in the way.
A resistance where individual egos do not get in the way.
A resistance where the infiltrators and the provocateurs
and the liars and the betrayers and the traitors, they do not get in the way ...
a resistance of consciousness.

This is our obligation to the earth.
And only by fulfilling our obligation to the earth
can we fulfill our obligations to the people.

- John Trudell -
"STICKMAN" - 1980

Behind Bars, He Turns M&M’s Into an Art Form
Check out this article from The New York Times

step by step

© luisa brehm

we build a new world .....
this one just stinks !!!

sacrifice in blue

 
© luisa brehm
for Illustration Friday

The Tao exists in the crickets ... in the grasses ...
in tiles and bricks ... and in shit and piss.

- Chuang Tzu -

My cocoon tightens, colors tease,
I'm feeling for the air;
A dim capacity for wings
Degrades the dress I wear.

A power of butterfly must be
The aptitude to fly,
Meadows of majesty concedes
And easy sweeps of sky.

So I must baffle at the hint
And cipher at the sign,
And make much blunder, if at last
I take the clew divine.

- Emily Dickinson -

fate is a butterfly

© luisa brehm

Ride a wild horse with purple wings
striped yellow and black
except his head which must be red.

Ride a wild horse against the sky
hold tight to his wings before you die
whatever else you leave undone-
once ride a wild horse into the sun.

- Hannah Kahn -

night light

© luisa brehm

naaa, it's not a lunar eclipse .......
it's just fireworks in the city ;-)))))

Protest says ‘Free all U.S. political prisoners!’
Check out this article from Workers World

animation

Defect
by Ed Beals

a fantastic flash animation !!!

two eyes

© luisa brehm


typical portuguese houses .....
on top, interior north,
below, in the edge of the ocean .....

Human Rights Council approves the
Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

The declaration goes now to the UN General Assembly for final adoption in the fall.
June 30, 2006