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Published: 2005-02-24 11:49:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 26311; Favourites: 474; Downloads: 1713
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I wanted to try and show Cancer as an emotion and concept. This is what I came up with.Well I guess an explanation is needed... The marble represents a spot. The whole face is the person (Familial unit, group, friends) is the before, the torn face is the after. Cancer is a deceiving thing. On the outside everything looks great, on the inside it's not. The before and after pictures of a family group going though this with a loved one is an ominous thing. Sometimes you can't even recognize them...
Hope this helps a bit...
Enjoy...
Dave
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Can I use the image as a reference for an oil painting (full credit will be given of course)?
Thank you.
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I love it, as I do most of your work. I went through cancer when I was 15 and it was hell and I'm still suffering from it. They don't warn you about all the long term affects it can have and you're often ending up more devastated than when you received the news. Too bad they can't capture that on film..
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Lost an aunt tot his disease, and am about to loose a close family friend to it. That sums up what this disease does. In so many more ways than just this one.
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Sorry to hear it. Yeah, it really, really does suck. Again, I'm sorry to hear about your loss...
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It's ok. It happenned many years ago, so I've put it behind me. It has to happen some way. The thing I hated most about that disease was the fact she never looked sick until it was close to the end. It's just so decieving.
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Thank you. It means alot to people who have Cancer...I for one experiencing this disease am thankful that there are people like you who care about those in need. This phenomenal concept had great execution, and it reAlly drains out the meaning of the visual. I give much plaudit to this. And again, thank you. (:
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Yeh, it is very deceiving, mi dad just developed cancer and is in hospital now.
Well done
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I think its great image - the neatness shows the surface appearance of cancer (actualy the non-apearance) - at least in early stages.
How is you dad doing?
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Oh my gosh! I love this! It means so much 2 me. My friend was diagnosed with AML Leukemia and I havn't seen her in months because I can't get 2 where she is staying and becasue she is in PICU. I know that when she gets better and can come back here to where she lives that she will not be the same person and this is exacly how I feel! Love this!
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honestly, that is a breathtaking concept. an awesome shot, but with so much thought behind it. very well done
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I like your take on this touchy concept. I thought maybe the marble represented something like the tumor, sometimes being so small we look right at it and still just go on living like its not there. Of course I dont mean actually looking as this throbbing tumor on your arm or something hhaha but like a whole family so oblivious. Well thats my take but I love yours. Great shot :]
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Brilliant. I love the presentation.
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i just want to add something to your description.
"On the outside everything looks great, on the inside it's not." sometimes, that is the case. but when they have had cancer for a while, you can definately see a change. my uncle looked like a skeleton and his skin was very pale and he hair was very light.
thats all.
i like it though.
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To be truthful, I could have gone without the explanation... It was as if you tried to pick your own art piece apart... The picture (in my opinion) spoke for itself...
Why do I say this? Well, mainly because I perceived it completely different from you... And what do I see... I see family, a friend, or loved one standing in the background... I see a 14 year old child staring down to his father, broken and destroyed, yet not dead... And the Red... The thing that was there yet seemed so harmless until now... Cancer, the word itself almost seems like a branding in itself, something that the likes of you will never see, until your father falls off from a roof, and popping one of his lungs in his chest like a balloon... No, your father is made of steel, he even gets up and brushes the dust from his shoulder, and walks it off... His weezing and pathetic breathing hints to the mortality of this man carved of wood... But no, this didn't kill him... Later the doctors would report to my mother that the lung had litterally collapsed, and the blood needed to be drained... But this was not the worst of news... He was already dead, though he hasn't died yet... The collapsed lung had been so easily destroyed due to the growing of cancer, which had spread to his other good lung... His survival rate was -1%, he should be dead yesterday, the doctor says... A child watching his father, tough and stern, turn into nothing but dead weight, bed-ridden mass, the haunting wheezing of death around the corner of our rooms, feeling as if the man you knew was already dead, but Satan just wants to torture him and his family first... It was a blessing we had so much time afterwards to say our goodbyes, except for the fact that my mother was robbed of all of her money as she tried desperately to keep up with the bills of the to-be-deceased man- like a chiwawa chained to a moving vehicle... She ran as much as she could, but when she fell, it hurt... I remember us huddled around the kitchen sink, underneath it where we stored our backup canned foods... I remember pulling out the very last can of green beans, and staring up at my mother... Tears were in her eyes, but she wouldn't show it... Three hungry kids, a mother trying to work full-time, bills beyond comprehension, and a single can of green beans, not even family size...
I'm 23 now... Though it seems like it was yesterday, the worst thing of the story is today... Of all the horror, and sadness, and crying, the most heartbreaking truth to it is that I cannot even remember what my father looks like, all I can remember is the pain...
Regardless, this is about your artwork... I perceive it as someone in the background watching their friend or loved one being destroyed by this miniscule thing that seems almost pathetic in it's size... Cancer... It reminds us that everyone is made of glass, even the smallest of pebbles can shatter us...
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I read your comment and got goose bumps. I sympathize with the pain - my father died when I was much older, and the pain was great when a man I looked up to was consumed by desease, turned into a helpless mass.
I hope things are better now, but the pain keeps coming back.
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Thanks so much for your thoughts. I know what you're talking about. We often remember people in the last parts of their life and the emotions that brought out.
Give it some more time. Your fathers face will come back to you. Some pains take many, many years to heal...
Thanks again.
Dave
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It's the worse kind of cancer, when everything looks fine on the outside..
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I admire you. This really means a lot to me. Isn't it suprising how one piece of artwork can mean so much to...millions.
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It's amazing, and even without the explanation it's clear what you mean
Love all of your shots they all have such a good meaning behind them
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Wow, what an expressive piece. I understand, I have lot a few loved one's to cancer. Wonderful concept, and beautifully executed.
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powerful.
i'm sure many people can relate to this. i sure as hell can.
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As a pharmacist, I got the imagery immediately. Amazing work, and amazingly well-conceived. That red spot... the innocence of the white faces... the broken lives... the strength of pressing on even when things are pretty stark... I lost my sister-in-law to cancer, and many of my patients struggle with the terror that one red marble engenders. Thank you for this piece.
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Beautiful work... unfortunatelly true... sad...
Hate this disease, which steals you the one, you love...
So... sad..... So... unfair.....
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Great concept, quite powerfull. +fav.
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I hate that dissease .... unfair fight.. you showed emotions very well
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I hate that dissease .... munfair fight.. you showed emotions very well
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I think this is only part of it though.
It can be put back together after cancer... that would show a full cycle.
But this is a fantastic conceptual piece. Well-thought and orchestrated...
And technically, very well done.
The shadows are great, and the lack of color except for the spot helps to illustrated the point of it being cancer...
I'd think there should be more extremes in tones, maybe more absolute white... I 'unno...
But it's very good right now.
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you are reaaaaaally talented !!
its the simplest picture you're ever gonna see...
but it means so many things !!
you are a genious >.<
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Actually, I didn't need to read the explanation - the name of the picture was enough for me to get what you meant.
That's unusual for me - usually I am oblivious to everything!
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I know something important in my life will dead by Cancer... (and she doesn't know i think)
so that's why i like it..
represents a perfect emotion
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great work. the crispness and clarity of this is great. the message is well executed. good work
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My wife is, today, and for the last few weeks, in hospital with Advanced Metastasized Breast Cancer - it has finally spread to her spine, which means the end-point is demarcated.
I neede no description to intepret your image.
It is most poignant.
thank you
be well - metatetron
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I think that your idea is interesting. I think that the red is a good colour choice to represent this.
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I don't know how and how much you kow cancer, but I do know it closely, professionaly (as a nurse in a cancer institute) and personally (father, grandfather), I would never ahve thought of it as a red marble. Red is life, red is passion, red is blood. Cancer would be a black marble. Or colorless, maybe...
Plus, I feel like saying... cancer do not tear apart families. Families tear apart, sometimes. Sometimes, a disease (not necessarly cancer) is in the middle of it. Sometimes it's just a trigger.
I don't intend to criticize the emotion and concept you put into this. I just wanted to say that, I really do know cancer, and I don't see much likeliness in this photography. Please don't take it the wrong way.
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My father was diagnosed with Lung Cancer 2 weeks ago. This is my take on it...
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Sorry for you.
Maybe the redness is because of the freshness of the bad new, then.
Again, sorry.
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wow. so strong.
cancer is a tough one to deal with and i would never wish it on anyone.
great job love.
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Runs in my family...
This is somewhat depressing...but so is the whole topic. So i guess that means you did a good job.
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that is amazing and means alot to me because we just got over a christmas with out my grandpa who died about a year ago of cancer.. this is soooo amazing.. fave 
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interesting explanation for the picture. I'm not sure i understand the masks. and yet, i really love the picture. the white tone sort of screams peace and purity, yet the split mask and the red marble create such visual contrasts against such a theme. i guess. i dunno. either way. 
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Very well done. I was a ttracted to the image before I read the description and after reading that, very neat, but truely sad observation on making a statement
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