Category Archives: ARTS AND POETRY

FLORIDA STATE!

Please join me to welcome our new pencil sketch that is entitled as Florida State! Florida State is a continues from the themes from THE GREAT SEAL OF FLORIDA. I began this sketch on August 3rd and completed on the 12th of August 2022. I look forward to creating the color version, but for nowContinue reading “FLORIDA STATE!”

INTER-AMERICAN WEEK FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE!

I would like to wish everyone that takes part and celebrates Inter-American Indigenous Week all the very best as you celebrate and commemorate the indigenous peoples within the 35 countries that are included in the Organization of the American States. This year’s theme is the importance of women, their contributions to family and communities. IContinue reading “INTER-AMERICAN WEEK FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE!”

DAME OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN.

I would like to take the time to reflect upon the life of Dame Olivia Newton John who passed away on the 8th of August 2022. Also known as Olivia Newton John and for the famed character of “Sandy” from the American Musical film entitled as, “Grease.” The film was very famous, and many adaptationsContinue reading “DAME OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN.”

ONE COMMUNION!

I have often tried to describe the union of the soul, spirit, the binding of human love, as the physical and spiritual form to that of a Godly form, that elevates the human form, beyond the reach of the Earthly forms – as a holy and spiritual communion. Body, flesh, mind and spirit. This isContinue reading “ONE COMMUNION!”

A Life Kiss!!

I would like to take the time to share my recent art-work that I completed on April 13th 2022 that was inspired from my sketch entitled: A Life Kiss! The painted art is a growth of the sketch, that desires to reveal the World / Universe that is within us, that is perceived through theContinue reading “A Life Kiss!!”

THE ELEGANCE OF PEMBERLEY.

…… As I cordially invite you into the branches of the soul that intertwine as the Cerebral veins, that give life to what is presumed as our thinking and feeling, the garden of elegance, the beautiful mind, brain, the sensory perceptions, that give and receive with our loving heart.….. Shazia. A reflection from the novelContinue reading “THE ELEGANCE OF PEMBERLEY.”

DR. MARY JANE MCLEOD BETHUNE.

In honor of the statue unveiling of Dr. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune at the Washington Capitol, National Statuary Hall, Washington D.C., USA. I am proud to join you to offer my congratulations upon this historic moment. Dr. Bethune’s statue is named as the first “Black” American in the Statutory hall, where I would also likeContinue reading “DR. MARY JANE MCLEOD BETHUNE.”

PATRIA y VIDA

On July 11th 2022 it is the 1 year anniversary of the socio-political movement that stemmed from Cuba, known as Patria y Vida and that also included the many voices, opinions and all who supported this movement with SOS Cuba also with the hashtag: #SOSCUBA. Patria y Vida is translated from Spanish as Homeland andContinue reading “PATRIA y VIDA”