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Published: 2011-11-10 05:18:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 2485; Favourites: 126; Downloads: 24
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...mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, apologia pro vita mea...victims, perpetrators, children of circumstance, all of us.
(red sharpie, black pen, moleskine)
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Stunning work, incredible line work: those feet are exquisite. I love what you've written, too.
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Thank you very much for your kind words. It means the world when someone notices a detail in one of my drawings. I really enjoy drawing feet, but seem to only ever put them in a few stock expressions or poses.
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Yes, I like feet, too! My contour drawings of feet come out better than those of anything else! I don't know why. I know what you mean about people noticing the details in your work. The details can be the most significant part of a piece, at least for me, Β and I'm always drawn to zooming in and looking at the small things.
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Your work is rather fantastic and right up my street!
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oooooo AWESOME!!!!! SO expressive!!!!... i really felt something.
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I'm really glad to hear it resonates with you. thankyou! nice gallery, by the way!
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*grin* thanks - you know they're being sincere when they throw in an expletive!
I have to admit, i'm still pretty pleased with it myself.
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yeah! haha, it was sincere! it was my instant reaction!
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thankyou, i appreciate it.
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I have featured this work in my journal, hope you don't mind 
Btw. I really LOVE this work, it has such a strong and intense impact
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thank you so much - i'm flattered that you featured my work, i don't mind at all. i'm very happy to hear that this has a resonance for you, too - i think this is one of my stronger pieces.
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You are very welcome! I simply love this work, it has such a strong impact!
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Alas, no time to write a thorough comment, just this: I love it, it pierces my heart, I will look at this again and again
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You're such an amazing artist and you deserve a lot more attention... I just suggested this piece as a Daily Deviation, just to let you know. I hope it gets it
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*blushes profusely* I'm very flattered by your gesture...thanks a lot.*smiles* really, i appreciate it.
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culpa means guiltness, right? then i think the title fits very good to your work. dunno how to explain, it just fits!
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it does. it means guilt, fault, or blame. I'm glad you think it fits.
we are all guilty of something, and others are guilty before us, and it seems like some sort of insecapable cycle of committing atrocities small and large against one another...
I can't really explain it - if i could, i wouldn't have bothered drawing...
and thankyou for taking the tme to comment.
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thank you very much, I'm flattered!
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DUDE. This is AMAZING. I have been in speechless (typeless?) awe of the composition since you posted this--that red! that pose! And the frenetic pen shading, which suggests actual, violently contorted, 3D human flesh better than basically anything I've seen... the trailing, drowned-looking hair... But really. That shading. I just don't know what to do about it.
I would also like to--setting down my Primo Levi and Tadeusz Borowski for a moment--like to say that I also love the caption, and, while I'm getting my Nazi Tourette's on, the pose and the color scheme have been vaguely reminding me of something that I just realized is this: [link]
The feet really are awesome. So are the arms. And the legs. And... I could go on. Yeah. Just... Wow.
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*smiles* danke...
Yeah, i can see the resemblance between it and that poster... Funnily, for ages this drawing was a white silhouette on a block of red, with some vague pencilling. But there was an exhibition at the State gallery called "Mad Square" of all this German art from 1911 to 1939. I managed to find time to see it just before it closed down. Man, when I came out of there, i felt... don't know, nothing clear - not anything exalted, or vivid, or high or even clear. I didn't cry or anything. It was just this convoluted, heavy sense of -humanity-. I just sat down in the sun,and didn't move for about half an hour...
Then, a week of not-drawing later, i took this and finished it.
There were posters like that there, too. From both sides. I'd just re-read Candide, and i'd always thought Voltaire was being sarcatic when at the end he set everyone to work in the garden by way of fixing things. But in light of a tacky socialist poster about the virtues and benefits of work as oppose dto anarchy, it came to me that sometimes, in the wake of the wretched and incomprehensible, and in the face of an uncertain future, just how real a buffer work can be between life and chaos. productivity, regularity, belonging, purpose, structure, time occupied so as there's no chance of doing anything too drastic or dwelling too much. Work offers something tangible and real. (maybe i'm extrapolating from personal experience here, but when things went wahoonie-shaped...work kept me afloat for about half a year) We don't tend to think very often of political ideals as comping mechanisms, but for a second i glimpsed a possible human significance the ultimately problematic idelogy being propounded by a poster may have had. Okay, okay, i know i'm shamelessly projecting, but eh.
also, yes, i have to concede, i am a little pleased with the feet in this...
and that red. that intense red. everyone who had anything to say in that period seems to have wanted to say it with vivid red bits all over the place.
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Exhibit: FUCK. Yeah, that might put your head in a weird place. I'd say you've done it justice, though.
Candide: Ahaha. Pal and I read that, dropped out of uni and went farming for...until the present. 'Il faut cultiver notre jardin' being one of many straws on the camel's back, but yes, I see the appeal!
Politics = oldest coping mechanism in the book. Progress and Enlightenment! The Greater Good! God and Country! Glory and Honor! Capitalized Abstract Nouns! Man can't live on bread alone, but he can sure live or die on nothing but ideology!
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*re-reads what she wrote last night,laughs* i love how i treat realisations of the goddamn obvious as some kind of epiphany. "so i was looking at this poster, and i'd just re-read Candide..." derp. so much derp.
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Eh, better obvious epiphanies than NO epiphanies, I figure. After several millennia of human history, actual revelations are getting pretty hard to come by...
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delightful.. the curves of the body, the feet... the powerful redness.. a crime perhaps.. very very interesting!
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thankyou...
a crime, yes, in a sense. we all commit them against one another, sometimes we call them 'revenge', sometimes 'accident', sometimes 'birthright'. No one person is always the victim or the perpetrator, and i haven't met anyone who's managed to avoid this...
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you're very fascinating! I like your vision. It's true.
but it's not always a bad thing. well.. It's very expressive.
I'm impressed.
keep it going!
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*grin* well, it's hard to be timid in red sharpie.
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