Defend Amazonia

updated oct 2, 2014


This blog is created by Pit Becker paintmyblues as a support to protect the Amazonia region. 
The paintings are created by me. An Exhibition "Amazonia" is planned.

 Amazonia

September 2014, MonotypePainting / Collage. 42x29,7 cms

For further information about the rainforest, the rivers, the indigenous tribes,
the plants and animals, about life in Amazonia and its destruction and genocide
I added some links to articles/press release/videos. 


 
 

Amazonia birds rising.
!!! KEEP THE OIL IN THE GROUND !!!

September 2014, MonotypePainting / Collage. 42x29,7 cms

El petróleo amenaza pueblos amerindios
http://bit.ly/1sXGTlA by DW espanol,
24 sept. via twitter by @Yasunidos, Ecuador

There are still works in progress.

 

Genocidio En La Selva, #Yasuni:
http://bit.ly/1sXHrrw
Documental Discovery Channel en Espanol
24 sept, via twitter by @Yasunidos, Ecuador

Defend the Amazon region
against destruction!

 

May 12, 2014, MonotypePainting/Collage, 100x70 cms

Resistance, defend Amazonia!

- dedicated to the Indigenous Peoples in Amazonia,

and to Verena Glass and Erwin Kräutler -

 

May 8/9, 2014, MonotypePainting, 68x94 cms

Boletín de prensa Yasunidos
Quito, 30 de abril de 2014
http://www.yasunidos.org/2014/04/30/1273/
by Yasunidos, Ecuador


Justiça ordena que Norte Energia cumpra condicionante 
de Belo Monte para proteger Terras Indígenas
http://www.xinguvivo.org.br/2014/04/15/justica-ordena-que-norte-energia-cumpra-condicionante-de-belo-monte-para-proteger-terras-indigenas/
by Movimento XINGU Vivo para SEMPRE, Brasil
Publicado em 15 de abril de 2014


Bianca Jagger:
Deadly Sins in the Brazilian Amazon
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bianca-jagger/belo-monte-dam_b_3076501.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Published 04/16/2013, The World Post/The Huffington Post

 

 

There are still paintings in progress.

 

Bianca Jagger:
The Belo Monte Dam: An Environmental Crime
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bianca-jagger/the-belo-monte-dam-an-env_b_1614057.html
Published 06/21/2012, The World Post/The Huffington Post

December 24, 2013
Voices of Xingu: Xikrin Kayapó Courage
http://amazonwatch.org/news/2013/1224-voices-of-xingu-xikrin-kayapo-courage

In September 2013 I worked at a lake where I created collages.



December 21, 2013
Amazon Watch:
The Battle of Belo Monte
All about the third largest dam in the world
Source: Folha de S.Paulo
http://amazonwatch.org/news/2013/1221-the-battle-of-belo-monte

 Defend Amazonia, July-August 2013
MonotypePainting, Collage on plastic plate, 98,5x70 cms

Stop the Belo Monte Dam! October 2012-2013
Acrylic/Collage in sketchbook, 55,5x35,5 cms

It's up to everyone of us,
to speak out and to defend Amazonia,

to defend the Amazonas River, the Xingu River ... 
to defend every river in Amazonia ...

to defend all creatures who live in Amazonia,
all the indigenous tribes, all the animals and plants ...

to defend all life in this beautiful part of Mother Earth, 
this planet's largest tropical rainforest.

Water is life.

   

     

 PARE Belo Monte, STOP Belo Monte, June 3, 2013,
Graphite, coloured pencil and pastel crayon, drafts in my sketchbook.

DAMOCRACY

The Movie (English)

http://youtu.be/vnMD4e6nLms by Damocracy TV via YouTube

 

"Look what you are doing to my people. For the love of God. ...
Brazil refuses to show respect.
This is an affront to humanity. An affront to nature. ...
We shall not give up our rivers! ...
...

We have to unite. Definitely, that's the word: Unite.
And we have to continue to fight.
People need to understand that they hold the power.
We employ the government.
The government works for us.
We call the shots in this country.
They have to comply with our wishes.
That the Amazon is preserved, and our rights are respected!"

Source: DAMOCRACY the movie (english) by Damocracy TV

Amazonas I, 2012,
MonotypePainting on paper, 147x74 cms.

Inspired by poem "Amazonas" by Pablo Neruda,

part of "Canto General", published 1950.

Nota de soliddariedade dos Kayapó à ocupação de Belo Monte
http://www.xinguvivo.org.br/2013/05/31/nota-de-soliddariedade-dos-kayapo-a-ocupacao-de-belo-monte/
by Movimento XINGU Vivo para SEMPRE
Published May 31, 2013
Follow Movimento XINGU Vivo para SEMPRE on Twitter: @xinguvivo
homepage Movimento XINGU Vivo para SEMPRE: xinguvivo.org.br  

Amazonia, 2013,
MonotypePainting on paper, 147x74 cms.

URGENT: "We will die. We will not leave without being heard."
http://amazonwatch.org/news/2013/0529-urgent-we-will-die-we-will-not-leave-without-being-heard
v @AmazonWatch
published May 29, 2013
Follow Amazon Watch on Twitter: @AmazonWatch
homepage Amazon Watch: amazonwatch.org 

 

Amazonia, detail, 2013,
MonotypePainting on paper, 147x74 cms.

Brazilians Denounce Dirty Belo Monte-Euro Connections
http://amazonwatch.org/news/2013/0501-brazilians-denounce-dirty-belo-monte-euro-connections?utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer3985b
v @AmazonWatch
published May 1, 2013

Amazonia, detail, 2013,
MonotypePainting on paper, 147x74 cms.

Brazil tribes occupy hydroelectric dam project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxJtSUBPvyI
by Channel AlJazeeraEnglish via YouTube
published June 28, 2012

Amazonia, detail, 2013,
MonotypePainting on paper, 147x74 cms. 

'The Future We Want'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bianca-jagger/the-document-adopted-at-r_b_1627736.html
by Bianca Jagger via HuffPost Green
Published June 27, 2012
Follow Bianca Jagger on Twitter: www.twitter.com/BiancaJagger @BiancaJagger

Amazonia, detail, 2013,
MonotypePainting on paper, 147x74 cms.

BELO MONTE - Concentration Camp in the Rainforest - censured information
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDy0e_gYldM&feature=youtu.be
Channel leleuch via YouTube
published April 10, 2012

Amazonia, detail, 2013,
MonotypePainting on paper, 147x74 cms.

 
A Last Stand for the Xingu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvbOTrczxAA&feature=relmfu
Channel AmazonWatch via YouTube
published June 1, 2011

Amazonia, detail, 2013,
MonotypePainting on paper, 147x74 cms.

 

Defending the Rivers of the Amazon,
with Sigourney Weaver
http://youtu.be/K-seAAIsJLQ 
Channel AmazonWatch via YouTube
published August 29, 2010

Amazonia, detail, 2013,
MonotypePainting on paper, 147x74 cms.

The Xingu River and Its People
http://amazonwatch.org/work/xingu-river-and-its-people
by @AmazonWatch

Amazonas II, 2012,
MonotypePainting on paper, 147x74 cms.
Inspired by poem "Amazonas" by Pablo Neruda,

part of "Canto General", published 1950.

  Defend Amazonia
the largest tropical rainforest on earth

October 27, 2013
Collage in sketchbook, 35,5x55,5 cms

Xingu Vivo, Brasil
Stop the Belo Monte dam, salve o rio Xingu
http://www.xinguvivo.org.br
at twitter @xinguvivo 

Yasunidos, Ecuador
Unión de jóvenes, artistas, organizaciones y demás personas, para proteger
al Parque Nacional Yasuní y sus comunidades indígenas, del extractivismo
#SaveYasuni
http://www.yasunidos.org
at twitter @Yasunidos

BiancaJagger
Human Rights activist
Founder & Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation
http://www.biancajagger.org/
at twitter @BiancaJagger

Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights
of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin
http://www.amazonwatch.org/
at twitter @AmazonWatch




Copyright © by Pit Becker paintmyblues,
PIT BECKER ARTwork, 2012, 2013, 2014. All Rights Reserved. 


Vielen Dank, Claudia, für die Aufnahme der See-Fotos!

Canção para a Filha do Rio Amazonas

versículo 1

versículo 2

 

versículo 3

versículo 4

versículo 5

Canção para a Filha do Rio Amazonas

versículo 1-5, September 2012,
MonotypePainting on paper, 69x42 cms.

Dedicado a A., a Filha do Rio Amazonas.

Copyright © by Pit Becker paintmyblues,
PIT BECKER ARTwork, 2012. All Rights Reserved.

Atelier

Warm regards to my friends at twitter
from my studio' work.

paintmyblues

 

Atelier - to my friends, Collage, Tuesday 4 September 2012.

Dedicated to my friends at twitter.

Copyright © by Pit Becker paintmyblues, PIT BECKER ARTwork, 2012.

All Rights Reserved.

Yemen

Yemen. Far away country. I've never been in Yemen.

1991, in the night of 5th to the 6th January, I found in a magazine a photograph of Sanaa.
I viewed it for a while - and I wanted to know more about the country, its people and its nature.

Then I made this little sketch of it. First I colored the paper of my sketch-pad with black tea,
then I made the sketch with felt pen.


In the following years I saw wonderful photographs from Yemen, wonderful nature, beautiful people,
gorgeous handicrafts, magnificent architecture ...
but
but at the same time I learned about the misery


A lack of water ... High unemployment ... death by starvation ... death because of poverty  ...

and then
the people protested peaceful, marched for their demands ...
it was shocking to see the answers by the regime:
ignorance, oppression, violence - and death ...

and
another evil: Death by drones ...

 

...

Yemen. I still was not there.
Far away country, but in-between it is so close to me.

Let us break the silence. Support Yemen - For Freedom, Justice, Dignity

31 August 2012

Feel free to visit these blogs for more information about Yemen.

http://supportyemen.org/ 

http://womanfromyemen.blogspot.de/ by WomanfromYemen
http://notesbynoon.blogspot.de/ by NoonArabia

Sanaa, 1991, Felt pen and black tea on paper, 34x50 cms.
Copyright © by Pit Becker paintmyblues, PIT BECKER ARTwork, 1991, 2012.
All Rights Reserved.

The Spirit of Freedom

 

The spirit of freedom is like the free wind - nothing and nobody can stop him!
Storm Mountains, 2008, Acrylic on canvas. 



Copyright © by Pit Becker paintmyblues, PIT BECKER ARTwork, 2008
Lyric © by Pit Becker paintmyblues, PIT BECKER ARTwork, 2011, 2012
All Rights Reserved.

My Poems Nightblue

 

My Poems Nightblue 

MonotypePaintings on paper, August and September 2011

by Pit Becker paintmyblues, PIT BECKER ARTwork

She loves to sit at the coast
                         in the middle of the night. . . 

. . . watching the Sea . . .

 She loves the sounds of the night, when dancing waves sing their blues

Seabirds fall in love with nine chords in B-Minor

    

   

An ancient wooden boat comes passing by, groaning under the moon, 

             searching for men

                                                             some screaming seagulls

 

             and there were signs, written in the sky

                                                                       sent with the wind from a far away friend 

and she hears the Sea cries . . .

the Sea cries for the fallen . . . at distant shores there is a revolution . . .

.

 

. . . She loves this endless nightblue sky . . .

                                                   and when the moon turns green . . .

Painting and text by Pit Becker paintmyblues.

© by Pit Becker paintmyblues, PIT BECKER ARTwork, All rights reserved.

"Why don't we think a little more, eh?"

Una mujer chilena habla -
A Chilean woman speaks


Source/Copyright: "Mujer de Chile habla a Policías del Mundo - English, Italiano"

by channel "99thminer, published 15.06.2011, via YouTube.
The words are cited from the english subtitles in the video.

Valparaíso, Chile, 21 mayo 2011

"Why are you always with the governments? Why are you always with the strong?
Is it that you were born rich? Is it that you were born powerful?

 
If you are here, it's because you were born as poor as we are.
And you are there to earn a meal. Meal that we all pay for! 

 
Why don't you think a little?

 
We are poor. People are angry. They are outraged!

 
And you are sent here to crack down and to provoke so the stones come out.
And it shows to the world. And you feel happy... in the defense of the traitor governments!
Since all these governments we have had... are traitor governments, gentlemen.
They have betrayed us. They promise us and then they deceive us and laugh.
And they live like princes, all these rulers.
They live like kings, while we are suffocated with debts and problems.

 
And you, you defend the powerful. My God! How sad! My God! How sad!

I have reached old age and I'll die with this sadness inside me.
This sadness of seeing how they put Chilean against Chilean... poor against poor.

My God! My God! Why don't you react? Why don't you think a little?

You are being used in the same way they are using us.

Here a banner puts: "stop violence"
Pacific, quiet people wanting to manifest themselves and say: We're angry;
we're not accordant with what they are doing.
The powerful are doing whatever they want! They take from us, they abuse us and they steal from us.

Can we stay happy? We have to go out. And we want to go out by peaceful means but you...
you are sent here to provoke us. 

Do you feel angry? What should we do? My God! My God!

Why aren't we a little more humane? Why don't we think a little more, eh?

 
Political parties don't matter here, political parties don't matter here.
Colors and flags don't matter. What matters is that we are non conforming.

 
I can say: "I don't need a meal... I don't need a bed nor need I a roof". But I was born in a garage.
I grew up and I was educated among stumbles.
And I don't want anything else than a meal, a roof and a clean bed
And I want to die in peace. But I feel angry, like many other...
... who were born in poverty and will die in poverty and in repression.
And that's not fair, gentlemmen. That's not fair.

 
And you, you too, most of you were born as poor as I were...
and now, thanks to those uniforms that are paid by all of us...
Because those uniforms and that, and this, all this gentlemen... comes out from our taxes.
Because we the poor work. Because we live like the poor... in shacks, in garages like I did for ten years...
to pay for this, and this, to pay for the tear gas... to pay for the police cars. 

My God!"


¡Muchas gracias!,
mujer desconocida en Valparaíso, para - actuar - y para tus palabras!

Thank you so much,
unknown woman in Valparaiso, for - take action - and for your words!

¡Muchas gracias! thank you unknown "99thminer" for publishing this video inclusive subtitles at YouTube! 

Mi hija - My daughter

Dedicado a las madres y las hijas de Ciudad Juárez, que perdió a sus seres queridos -
Dedicated to the Mothers and Daughters of Ciudad Juárez who lost their dearest.

para - for

Cristina, Barbara. Consuela, Rosaria, María, Irene, Josefina, Marisela, Lilia, Miriam, Edith, Guadalupe, Alejandra, Ana, Gloria, Alma, Irma, Conchita, Érika, Silvia, Claudia, Dinora, Isabel, Daniela, Adriana, Veronica, Griselda, Julieta, Samanta, Hilda, Liliana, Marisol, Elena, Catalina, Marta . . .

paintmyblues, Lunes, 25 de octubre 2010

Mi hija

Oigo su risa
Huelo su fragancia
Los oigo hablar
Los veo sonriendo
Oigo cantar
Los veo bailar
Siento tu abrazo

Tenía los ojos hermosos
Ella prefería las rosas
Ella respeten la naturaleza
Ella quería ser médico
Ella cantaban todos los días
Ella hicieron bien en la escuela
Ella bailó siempre, ella le encantaba bailar

Buenos días, mamá!
Hola mamá!
Buenas noches, mamá!

Mamá, necesito zapatos!
Mamá, este es un bonito vestido!
Mamá, voy a jugar con Rosaria.
Mamá, lo cerca que la Luna es hoy!
Mamá, eres tan hermoso!
Mamá, mira, he pintado hoy en la escuela.
Mamá, Tengo que ir a trabajar! Hasta luego!
Mamá, estoy mucho en mi cumpleaños!
Mamá, vamos, soy ayudaré!
Mamá, ¡felicitaciones!
Mamá, ¡Te quiero!

Oigo tu risa
Huelo tu fragancia
Oigo tu voz
Te veo sonreír
Te oigo cantar
Te veo bailar
Siento tu abrazo

Mi hija,
cuando cierro mis ojos, te veo
y
Te veo con los ojos abiertos
todos los días
siempre

Mi hija,
siempre estás en mi corazón

Mi hija
Te quiero

My daughter

I hear her laughter
I smell her scent
I hear her speak
I see her smile
I hear her sing
I see her dancing
I feel her embrace

She had beautiful eyes
She loved roses
She respected the nature
She wanted to be a doctor
She sang every day
She did well in school
She danced always, she loved to dance

Good morning, Mom!
Hi Mom!
Good night, Mama!

Mama, I need shoes!
Mom, this is a pretty dress!
Mama, I will play with Rosaria.
Mama, how close the moon is today!
Mom, you're so beautiful!
Mama, look, what I have painted today at school.
Mama, I have to go to work! See you later!
Mama, I'm looking forward to my birthday so much!
Mama, come on, I'll give you a hand!
Mama, congratulations!
Mama, I love you!

I hear your laughter
I smell your scent
I hear your voice
I see you smile
I hear you sing
I see you dancing
I feel your embrace

My daughter,
when I close my eyes, I see you
and
I see you with open eyes
every day
always

My daughter,
You are always in my heart

My daughter
I love you

Meine Tochter

ich höre ihr Lachen
ich rieche ihren Duft
ich höre sie sprechen
ich sehe sie lächeln
ich höre sie singen
ich sehe sie tanzen
ich fühle ihre Umarmung

sie hatte wunderschönen Augen
sie liebte Rosen
sie achtete die Natur
sie wollte einmal Ärztin werden
sie sang jeden Tag
sie lernte gut in der Schule
sie tanzte immer, sie liebte es zu tanzen

Guten Morgen, Mama!
Hallo Mama!
Gute Nacht, Mama!

Mama, ich brauche Schuhe!
Mama, das ist ein hübsches Kleid!
Mama, ich werde mit Rosaria spielen.
Mama, wie nah der Mond heute ist!
Mama, du bist so schön!
Mama, schau, das habe ich heute in der Schule gemalt.
Mama, ich muß zur Arbeit gehen! bis später!
Mama, ich freue mich so sehr auf meinen Geburtstag!
Mama, komm, ich helfe dir!
Mama, herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Mama, ich habe dich lieb!

Ich höre dein Lachen
Ich rieche deinen Duft
Ich höre deine Stimme
Ich sehe dich lächeln
Ich höre dich singen
Ich sehe dich tanzen
Ich fühle deine Umarmung

Meine Tochter,
wenn ich meine Augen schließe, dann sehe ich dich
und
ich sehe dich mit offenen Augen
jeden Tag
immer

meine Tochter,
du bist immer in meinem Herzen

meine Tochter
ich liebe dich

Lyric and Painting by Pit Becker paintmyblues



 
Copyright © by Pit Becker paintmyblues, PIT BECKER ARTwork

Profundo Sur

Profundo sur - tu sonrisa ...

Collage, 9-10 de abril 2011
dedicada a C.

Painting by Pit Becker paintmyblues

Copyright © by Pit Becker paintmyblues, PIT BECKER ARTwork, 2011