💟 solidarity from the peoples of brazil to the people of palestine—
last year, @fairuzfan suggested that people make art in support of palestine. i planned something that was supposed to be posted on the last strike, but it took me longer than expected.
it's finished now! this is in solidarity with palestinians, including palestinian-brazilians, who have been working tirelessly for justice in brazil as well.
i chose to highlight aspects of the land that are important to palestinians and the palestinian cause: the olive trees, jaffa oranges, the figs, poppies, faqqua irises and the palestinian mountain gazelle. the figure of the woman itself is wearing the traditional thobe and headwear of ramallah, which i found! so beautiful!
for the brazilian figure i asked my grandma what she used to wear and what our family used to plant decades ago, when she lived in the northeastern countryside (she is way more familiarised with the land than me). had some help from friends of the region as well, so i drew a jaguar, manioc roots, corn, cashews, sweet potatoes, a carnaúba palm tree and mandacaru flowers.
some of those, such as manioc roots and mandacaru cacti, remind me of resilience and the sustaining of life in difficult times, and what they may allow to flourish and to go on:
vida e não apenas sobrevida. that is, "life and not only survival!"
may palestine and it's people live! live free from every form of oppression that allowed this genocide, this nakba to take place.
inspirations & sources bellow the cut.
inspired by the art of sliman mansour and dana barqawi, as well as palipunk & orangeblossombitch @ tumblr and nadasink @ instagram.
the books recommended by @palipunk (much thanks to you for making them available)
♥️ palestinian costume por jehan rajab
♥️ palestinian costume por shelagh weir
♥️ traditional palestinian embroidery and jewelry por abed al-samih abu omar
al-jazeera documentary about the preservation of palestinian thobes (i do not understand arabic yet but! it allowed me to have a closer look at the coins and headwear):
sites about tatreez
♥️ https://www.folkglory.com/ (i based the chest pannel on this item from their shop here.)
♥️ https://www.tatreezandtea.com/
♥️ https://tirazain.com/archive
and the palestinian museum digital archive!
♥️ https://palarchive.org/
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Flowers from the Child of a Flowerman and a Human
(Drawn in MS Paint. Scanner HUD and text added with Photopea.)
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Art Commission for JessuFay,
Thanks for your support! (^人^)
link to the story!!! (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
Water you doing? by JessuFay
Battle Scars by JessuFay
Mind to check the tags ヾ(≧へ≦)〃
Gem/Reader belongs to Jessufay
Dream by Jokublog
Leviathantale Au by Sku
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09/12/23
gorgug. i believe you to be the greatest wizard of this age
NOTE: this one took awhile for me to finish, both cuz of uni and cuz i had just so many problems with this piece lol. gorgug and ayda are so friendship :]
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