BRAVE - For the Unclaimed People

Bravery isn't something a person experiences. It is the compliment given by others, along with those that reflect courage and fearlessness. It's the subjective description, usually retrospectively, made by an observer or even a stranger. Bravery is not the experience of the individual (or group) referred to. The drive of the brave, triggered by events; experiences of seemingly insurmountable odds, is fear.

Brave people are scared. Bravery-courage-can transcend the seemingly insurmountable silence of enforced righteousness, because bravery is an act, in this case, of making noise. Of faith.

Faith is spiritual. It is mystical. It is communion with sky. Breath. Inter-species integrity. Most brave people are cowards who risk everything for love.

Following Witch - For Those Who Are, BRAVE is de Angeles' latest in a collection of bardry, this time a little different. De Angeles reveals a life of, and recovery from, a youth of white slavery; the seemingly-benign adoption system, set in place by an antiquated church and state, whereby a human being can be bought, for a price, with ramifications that inflict an often overlooked intergenerational trauma.

BRAVE exposes the struggle necessary to avoid capture by an enemy that claims right, by might, a human being's identity, and the unparalleled joy of living unusually, ancestrally-recognized, freely but with blunt-force honesty whilst also pointing the finger at the continued blind-eyed acceptance of the slave trade, worldwide.