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“Waxing & Waning”Pencil on Illustration board
Image size 22” x 30” after framing 34” x 42”
This is actually a two part project the drawing which is shown here completed, and a forthcoming, constructed frame will heighten the feel of this drawing. The frame which is a wood construction, painted and given the illusion of weathered, rusted steal will be completed within the next few weeks.
Waxing & Waning. Life itself is a continuum of birth and death, something that was made very clear when my mother passed away during this drawing. At the hospital in the waiting room as I sat in grief, a family awaited the birth of a child to their daughter, laughter and pride filled the room as I sat choking down my tears.
Waxing & Waning relates to a series of drawings called “neo-fossil” that I have been working on for some ten years. This drawing was conceived and started way before my mother’s brief illness but it turned out to be very fitting. There is so much symbolism here that I don’t want to divulge, I am more interested to how it’s translated by others then what inspired me to draw this. Making art is always a journey and the destination only becomes clear when the viewer finds truth with their own unique interpretation.
Thanks for looking
Armin
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Simply amazing, the detail is superb 
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Armin,
I have been away from my favorite art sites way to long!
I knew something was calling me back! Glad I found it!
Wonderful piece my friend. It's like eye candy for people
with no color receptors!*lol* So much to look at so little
time to look at it. I'll be back!
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oh my... god... thats incredable. when you draw people its amazing but when you go all creative and crazy on us it's just... awe inspiring!
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incredible shading ! A true masterpiece
I'm sorry not being able to express everything this piece evoque to me, in english 
I'm not even sure I understood well your title. I've just check with a translator and it makes me find something totally different in meaning. So I'll study your work again
Thank you for sharing this fantastic artwork ith us
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Thank you Aimelle! Waxing and Waning are the fazes of the moon, regular and constant. Just like being born and dying. A natural process. I used the moon for many reasons aprart from this aspect.
Armin
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ohhh thank you so much for taking the time to light me up !
I really admire the fact that you are creating from very significatives symbols. And even though they have their own universal meaning, I always find pleasure in finding the ones I have for them coming from inside of me.
A pleasure to discover your gallery... will come back when time permits more
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What a beautiful piece. Such wonderful detail and skill.
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Absolutley Astonishing, I haven't quite seen anything like this. Your incredible Armin, - Gerald
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that's a very sad story related to the timing of the work, it seems appropriate that the repeated "earth mother" goddess symbols of the moon are present here! i see a little bit more of the "waning" in this image, the tree branches cut off, the lion skull and the clock-like gearsall seem to pont more to the later stages of the cycle (though it all starts over, i guess that's suggested by the one living leaf). the moon and the gears show a real sense of time slipping by to me, the whole piece seems very meloncholy and reflective. i feel like i am missing the signifigance of the lion's skull (it looks like a big cat to me, i may be wrong) but i think it might have to do with a more personal symbol-? maybe a totem creature for yourself or your mother? or a more broad interpretation having to do with the nature of the beast? i love the image overall. i always think skulls are really fabulous subjects, very loaded imagery!
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Its actually a small cat, a cougar or wild cat, the skull I barrowed from a nature preserve. Even such an independent creature, meat eater, alpha male its still not immured to the death cycle.
Thank you so much for your in-depth comment!
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it is my pleasure. i very much admire your skill and comittment to your work.
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i'm not a believer in god as many people are, i am rather an atheist and what i
see in this symbolism is the true nature of all. I do believe, just different.
The basics of life. where we come from. The soil of our mother earth. The
roots that give "birth" to something wonderfull, life itself. Roots are
connected to the soil, like the connection of the unborn child in the mothers
womb, that eventually grows into a beautifull human being. But to all comes
an end like the symbol of the skull, leaving us with a memory (above the skull)
what a wonderfull human being it was...
i also wrote my interpretation dedicated to my Father and Grandma who "left" me
recently. They were my "roots", they gave me the greatest gift in life: The chance
to become a beautifull human being myself. And the circle is completed...
The way i see it.
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for a moment i thought it was a photo--of course i should know better since it came from you. wonderful details as always
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I'm amazed by your drawing skills.
I'd comment more on all your works that have caught my attention, but I have to get back to studying philosophy for my exam in two days.
You're added to my devwatch 
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Thanks for taken the time! Good luck on your test.
/\\\
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Not a test, but a questioning. And thanks for the good wishes, I passed it!
Now I'll be free to comment on people's works like I used to.
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Armin,
I am very sorry for your loss. The passing of a parent is hard. Your experience in the hospital conveyed alot of deep emotion and irony.
"Waxing and Waning" is such an appropriate title for this emotional experience and for this stunning work. I have been studying this drawing for several minutes and will look some more at all the intricate details and symbolism.
Again I am very sorry for your loss.
Sincerely,
Craig Fleming
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thanks you Craig that means a lot!
Armin
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I've never taken art interpretation classes or anything like that, nor did I read the previous comments (in case you listed what everything symbolizes), but from what I see (I am a layman), it is life or growth from the roots that lead to an inevitable death (the skull). I'm not sure on what to make of the background. An earthy side and a side that seems almost mechanical. Possibly nature and technology becoming part of the cycle of life?
I really don't know and now I'm thoroughly confused.
I'm sure there are different ways to interpret this, but in the end, it might not be the right one - the right one being the intention of the artist.
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et your heart and mind translate this in your way, that’s art interpretation. Thanks you so much
Armin
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Just let your heart and mind translate this in your way, that’s art interpretation. Thanks you so much
Armin
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Your artwork is amazing. This one especially. Excellent shape and shading. Very well composed and a great idea too. Sorry to hear of the death of your mother. When a relation of mine died several years back I walked along the beach and there was the sound of children playing - that sense of renewal does help - I think.
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It's beautiful. I love the almost human/living roots.
Life and Death ... bittersweet. I send you some energy for your mother.
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Armin,
I have spent the last 30 mins sitting here, typing and deleting my messages back and forth, back and forth, trying to type out my thought yet no word seem right to describe the feelings I'm having right now. Life is a continuous cycle. A beginning leads to an end, an end leads to another beginning. One action leads to a consequence and that consequence leads to another action. Life and death, a never ending cycle, a never ending story... Thank you for posting such a personal piece. Seeing your work, always opens up my eyes. You remind me what I lack in my work. Truth to be told, I'm going through a difficult time. It's a time, I no longer feel the pride in my work, I feel lost, tired and deeply disturbed. I feel that I'm starting to lose direction. Your work keeps my passion alive, because you remind me exactly what I should be striving for an what I want with my art . It was your technical abilities that inspired me years ago, but now it's your determination, your passion for art, your creativity and most importantly your feelings & thoughts which are all so apparent in this piece. So Powerful and so full of twists.
On a side note: I'm so sorry about your mother. I know I'd be absolutely devastated if I lost mine (as I love her more than anything in this world), but that would be inevitable one day, I dare not to think of. I've been worrying about you since our last chat on the phone. How are you feeling really? And, is your back still hurting? I wish nothing but your well being!
ps: I've got a full time day job now, can't be online as much. Now I'm still adjusting to my working schedule, my previous (years of) crazy life style has been taking a toll on me
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I just wrote a letter to you and then I see this comment, I sent you a note on art life and bullshit. Thanks for the great comment my friend as always, I am very honored by your words!
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Wow. It's hard to believe how absolutely amazing this is. How wonderfully everything is shaded and blended and works together... it's saddening that my screen makes it so small, I'd like to get up close and observe all of the details in that way. I'm most captivated by what's inside that circle, because I rarely see drawings done in a style where there are detailed 'layers.' One thing I'm getting from the piece (in my own interpretation) is how life seems to be holding up and supporting death, or I guess...what's left behind after death, which in this case is bones but I'd also say we leave behind memories, and those memories are what people have of us later. I see a leg-like form in the roots! But I might just be imagining that. 
Now I'm rethinking this roots thing, because there's a leaf... leaves grow on branches, not roots... and I basically start going into a whole spiral of thoughts when looking at this.
I see that you live in Michigan... is there any way for us to find out about shows your art is in? I'm looking at your website, but if there's something there on that, I must be missing it. I'd live to come see your work in person.
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Thank you Heather for your in-depth look at my work, I love your translation of it! I will put this on my website if you don’t mind, it gets people thinking.
A far as upcoming show at present I am in a show in Ann Arbor at the Gallery Project gallery
Armin
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This is beautiful. I see the use of circles as a symbol for the circle of life, and the various sizes and the overlap of the circles representing how different lives are at different points of the circle. One life may be close to birth as another is near the end. The tree branches as a pedestal for life make me think of how so much of life is spent avoiding death that it actually becomes the focus. Faved.
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thank you great traslation!
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i always believe that the artist is the one who draw from his imagination and not from reference pic like the amazing artist m.c. escher... ur work already put u right next to him man...
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This is an amazing work. you captured the light and shadows wonderfully!
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Armin,
I've been sitting here staring at this image and I am unsettled.
The most emotional part of the image, for me, is the base. The roots. They are anthropomorphic. I see them move. Heave. Breathe. And there is nothing "alive" there... I can gaze around the image, and enjoy the different textures, and journey through the metal and rock and bone... but those roots haunt me. I see arms and legs and thighs and... parts! Human parts. Disconnected and intertwined. And alive.
And I promise I'm not smoking anything either!
It's way cool. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Regards,
-Theresa
PS: My condolences to you and your family.
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I see more human parts all the time, strange. Thanks for your input!
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I had that same feeling about the roots. Different body parts.
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