Nest

Nest

300 x 300 x 50 mm

Redscape

Redscape

800 x 1200 mm

Oil on stretched canvas

Hadimu Boy

Hadimu Boy

700 x 600 50 mm

Oil on stretched canvas

Ha-di-mu (My Boy)

Rose Street

Oil on stretched canvas

600 x 700 mm

I am the same person

as before this came

I don't feel different now

as before this came

I hope for a miracle

and live positive

Barrack Street

800 x 800 x 50 mm

Oil on stretched canvas

I do not know what it means

in reality

I do not fear what it does

to anyone

I do not remember how it came

into my body

I do not want it affecting

my life

I do hope to live positive

Jamieson Street

600 x 700 x 40 mm

Oil on stretched canvas

I was hurt then

they took me in

said I'm positive

It's my thing now

they can't take me

it might kill them

It gives me hope

to be safe

on the street

Here I live positive

Initiation Triptych

Tryptych of 3
each 600 x 800 x 50 mm
Oil on stretched canvas

Initiation, the traditional rite of passage ceremony, marks the entrance or formal admission to adulthood in a community. In an extended sense it can also signify a transformation in which the initiate is 'reborn' into a new role. What the initiate experience while taking the initiation ceremony can be very traumatic and very much compared to that of a newborn baby.

Mane Eyes

800 x 800 mm
Oil on canvas

It was those eyes that captured me.

Inner Journey

Oil on stretched canvas
800 x 800 mm

“The inner journey is a passionate inquiry into our own soul, our own personal field of experience. It’s not enough to be passionately involved in a subject or pursuit that we are interested in learning more about; we have to be passionately involved in our own process. We need to inquire into and study our own state, our own soul; our inquiry has to be about what is relevant to us personally.” – A. Hameed Ali. This journey is just starting for Gaulimee, who lives with thousands of others on the streets of Brazil. Support CARF at http://carfwebnet.blogspot.com/.

The Memory

Oil on stretched canvas
1000 x 1000 mm

"Like a bird singing in the rain,
let grateful memories survive
in times of sorrow."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Dedicated to Claudiney, tragically killed while living on the streets of Brazil at the age of 11.