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As an extension of my soul, Art as Expression is a petal unfolding through my discoveries, experiments, and the expression of my soul as a form of art itself.
Here you'll find my writings and other forms of art, such as drawings, paintings, and whatever else touches me. Alongside these, you'ĺl avigate through photography — another passion — and content inspired by the work of others, like exhibitions and masterpieces that have moved me, both through my lens, my mind, and my soul.
I hope these spark a light inside you too.
Toujours avec l'amour et la lumière,
Z
​Because of that, this rebirth carries also the energy of the eagle who tears away her own feathers to live anew. It is a choice to transform rather than remain bound. It is the same force that Aphrodite carries when she emerges from foam after rupture, the same force Amphitrite carries as she tempers Poseidon’s power, the same force Xangô carries when he restores balance with thunder.
I see also in myself the winds of Iansã (Oyá), goddess of storms, change, and movement, and the deep maternal sea of Iemanjá, queen of waters and mother of orixás. In Greco-Roman myth there are no direct equivalents, but Amphitrite and the Nereids echo Iemanjá’s oceanic essence, while winged messengers like Iris and goddesses of swift power like Nike echo Iansã’s energy, for me. Across cultures, the archetype repeats: the sea as womb and memory; the wind as transformation; justice as the lightning that restores balance.
These are not distant myths to me.
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My connection to these archetypes-beings did not came from reading a book or learning a story simplement. It was a recall.
The Nereids did not appear to me as characters on a page but as living presences, lifting me from the depths back to the surface, like sisters pulling me upward while in my own life, I was burned, sunk, and nearly dissolved. But like the Phoenix — the bird of fire who dies and rises from her own ashes — I was reborn, but from the waves.
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The sea in ancient myth is never just water: it is life, memory, and transformation.
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Among its deepest mysteries dwell The Nereids, the fifty daughters of Nereus, the “Old Man of the Sea,” and Doris, daughter of Oceanus, the mediators between mortals and the ocean’s living power.
From among them rises Amphitrite, queen of the sea, with her crown of foam, coral, and pearls - a symbol of sovereignty and balance - and Aphrodite (Venus), the foam-born goddess of love and beauty. In Hesiod’s Theogony, she rises from the sea after Uranus is cast down, welcomed by the Hours, clothed in radiance. If Amphitrite represents the queenly ordering of the sea’s realm, Aphrodite embodies its creative force — beauty, desire, and renewal endlessly surging from the depths.
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Moreover, in Greek thought, divine gifts are always balanced by justice - not as abstract but personified: Themis, Titaness of cosmic law, seated beside Zeus, and Dike, her daughter, the personification of human justice. Themis guided the order of the cosmos; Dike, often portrayed with scales, guarded cities from injustice. In Roman culture, this figure became Justitia, the blindfolded goddess of fairness we recognize today.
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In Afro-Brazilian cosmology, this principle of balance lives powerfully in Xangô, the orixá of justice, thunder, and truth. Like Zeus, he wields lightning; like Themis, he represents the cosmic order that restores balance when chaos seeks to dominate. To me, Xangô embodies the living current of justice — not vengeance, but clarity and equilibrium — the same current that flows through the myths of Themis and Dike.​
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The Nereids are the echoes of my own nature and soul. Amphitrite is the sovereignty I aspire to over my own depths. Aphrodite is the transformation born from fracture into beauty. Xangô, Themis, and Justitia are the guardians of my boundaries and my truth. Iemanjá and Iansã are the Atlantic-Mothers echoes of sea and wind within me. And the Phoenix is my eternal rebirth, the representation of le choix, mon choix.
Together, they form a constellation of meaning that continues to guide me — a living myth of waves, winds, and fire, always rising, always returning to balance, always ready to shine.
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I hope my experiences and shares spark the light in you too and through resonance, we build a better World - a beautiful one, filled with light, love and abundance.
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Toujours avec l'amour et la lumière,
Z.
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