casimira: sunset

This morning I painted with watercolors and discovered I painted the sunset...

“To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.” - RUMI

relax, reflect, rejoice

...message from a park bench

casimira: luna

what do you thirst for?

take in tonight's full moon and tell her your dreams

"Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection." - RUMI

casimira: authenticity

"My aim: never copy.  Create a new style, light, brilliant colours, and sense the elegance in your models."
- Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980)

It is one thing is to be influenced by other artists, designers.

It is quite another thing to copy.

To copy is to have no shame and no self-worth, worse yet – no voice.

How can you be proud of yourself if you copy?

Authenticity matters to me.

casimira: a tree

"I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree."

-Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918)

casimira: art is air

el rey azteca se vistió de mis sueños

cantó de cristales y piedras con sedas y palabras

el arte es aire

...art is air...

exceprt from a short story

casimira: Picasso

excerpt from a series of writings featuring Pablo Picasso; the stories always come to me through Spanish dreams


un día de sol
Palo de Limón
se enamoro de Rosa Linda

con sus espinas ella le saco el jugo
con sus perfumes lo hipnotizó

después de mucho tiempo
con un poco de azúcar negra prestada
el finalmente la conquisto

una noche de luna
vestido de Toro-Cura
Picasso los caso con pluma, oro y luz

de esta unión
nació Pez-con-Alas-de-Mariposa

tu crees en estas cosas?
son maravillosas...son milagrosas



one sunny day
Lemon Tree
fell in love with Rosa Linda

and her thorns began to squeeze his juices dry
while her perfumes hypnotized him

after some time
with a bit of borrowed brown sugar
he finally won her over

on a moonlit night
dressed as Bull-Priest
Picasso married them with feather, gold and light

from this union
Fish-with-Butterfly-Wings was born

do you believe in such things?
marvelous and miraculous things...

originally published in 2007

casimira: embrace the entire world

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

how do we limit ourselves?

let us embrace the entire world...

casimira: RUMI

Rumi whispered a sweet song to me early this morning:


"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don't go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.

Don't go back to sleep."

casimira: fairy

ribbons in her hair

a flower tucked behind an ear

rubber bands as bracelets

mother’s pearls - what pleasure

a crown of paper and a feather

oh nymph - oh fairy princess !

casimira: awake

universe breathed


LIFE


wind whispered


CHANGE


spirit signaled


FREEDOM


I sense it all...I am awake...

casimira: mujer

te pinto mi alma

en acuarelas de sueños


te cuento mis secretos

en murmullos celestes


te invento de recuerdos

en las paginas de mi ser


soy esa niña hecha mujer

casimira: song of my soul

my 2-year-old's art

life is made up of many little choices

each moment

every breath

offers a choice

little by little

I recognize nature’s melody

the song of my soul

today, I choose happiness...again and again


originally published in January 2007

casimira: surrender

...to live life with nobility, grace and elegance

casimira: gypsy

mi ojo

soy guerrera de otros siglos

soy reina desde antes

soy gitana bailando

soy esa que grita su verdad en silencio

soy mujer

casimira: thank you family & friends



 ...for always supporting me

casimira: Tio Alberto

contemplating the ephemeral, fragile beauty of life...the sacred cycle of birth, death and rebirth...

remembering beloved Tio Alberto

casimira: peace through smiles

"If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace." - Thich Nhat Hanh

smile today and blossom

life is too short to carry around low energies that weigh us down

just smile

feel the sunshine on your face

breathe in the moment

casimira: moon to sun

I am goddess of pearl
born daughter of moonlight and stardust

he who seeks me
finds me not

until I say – my way
I need neither sun nor gold

and I never do as I am told
should you see him today

tell him you gazed upon me
making a wish in his name...

excerpt from a short story written many suns ago

casimira: love the whole world

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.
- Buddha (563-483 B.C.)