It's been a long time since I've had a peek at your work, but I can see you are as amazing as ever.
This is a truely powerful peace which can affect a part of everyone except those who choose to remain ignorant. I can't express how amazing and powerful this is.
Beautiful work dear

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My mind is milk spilt across your pristine bleached floors of sanity... Don't cry over it.

Beautifully moving. Big to you for your pain.

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"I came here to chew some bubble gum, and kick some ass.....and I'm all out of bubble gum" - Rowdy Roddy Piper

You have to start looking at the positive and not dwell on the crap. That said it's an amazing piece with huge impact.
As a man it brings out that whole helpless and protective emotion, can't help it, I'm old fashioned.

Anyway to make you feel better and certainly to make me feel better as well here's a

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Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time, but now that it's the opposite, it's twice upon a time. - Moondog

This is beautiful. In a heartbreaking way, but it is beautiful.



~Strength and love~

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i hear ya loud and clear. awesome job, i doubt any would get misinterpritation

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OR 'Emotionally beaten by pieces of shit'!!
Tho you are submitting this picture for it's own reason, I really think this is a perfect and essential part of the trilogy.
Going back over Damned and Echoes
it's hard not to see the series of emotions, as they occur, imo anyway..
Damned is full of anger and hatred, which builds up to an explosive feeling of frustration and insanity, as seen in Echoes.
This one to me, represents all that is left..
When we are just so fucking tired of fighting the fight, and feeling like we are getting nowhere fast, we go into our little black hole. We take with us nothing but silence, tears and thoughts.
I see it as a time of contemplation, where we still feel all that anger and hurt, but ponder over a million and one rhetorical questions. I don't think we ever find the answers, just a place to leave the hurt long enough to find some strength and carry on living.

This piece is utterly painful sweetie, my heart is aching at the thought and sight of it.
I can feel the lump in your throat from here, and the quiver of your lips, as you try to fight back the tears from your swollen and tired eyes.
I feel quite fucked, in thinking that I want to celebrate your amazing talent, but I don't dare.. knowing that what you produce is as real and painful as it often gets, is no cause for a celebration.
So instead, I will celebrate the fact that I have you and your work in my life, to remind me that life can be an absolute asshole, but I'm never alone in thinking so.

Emotions will repeat themselves until the message is actively listened... It's a message from you to you... a message that talks about how you built yourself and gives you the opportunity to see that you can change it...

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I hope you feel better soon.

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Disclaimer: The following is in no way a personal criticism of you, it's just my take on recurring badness. In truth, I'm really just putting my two cents worth towards your own comments on the art, rather than commenting on the art myself.

I've noticed a certain viewpoint on emotional hardship that seems most prevalent amongst (but not limited to) Americans... the concept of "dealing with" things, as if there is somehow a way to neutralise them out of your life and make it "okay" that a bad thing happened. I'm not sure it's a healthy or realistic goal.

Feeling pain is part of being alive. Trying to stop it or run away from it is a futile battle. Fighting it is dwelling on it. Bad things happen, they hurt, you feel it, you move on, and you continue to feel it, and that's okay, as long as you keep moving on, and don't put your life on hold trying to "deal with it" before allowing yourself to move on.

Why do I say it's an American concept? Two reasons.

#1: It's woven throughout all modern American storytelling culture. The hero can't just save the day, he has to "fix" his own personal problems in the process. At the end of the show, not only are the terrorists dead, the nuclear codes recovered, the drugs off the street and the aliens repelled, but the hero has learned to deal with his guilt over that self-defense shooting that made him quit the force, or some crap like that. It's in every single US film.

#2: One word: therapy. The culture of trying to cure the human condition. Gah. Is there a word for fear of emotions? There should be.

Anyway - the culture of this mentality is dangerous, because it enforces the notion that you cannot move on with your life until you no longer feel pain. (It also makes squillions for a massive industry feeding off people who don't want to feel.) "Self-help" in thsi context is such a misnomer - apparently you can't help yourself without expensive professional guidance now.

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