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Though this looks like a full deviation, and it probably could be, it was actually a quick concept "sketch" done in the space of half an hour. (NOTE: I've now moved this piece from Scraps to my regular gallery—even if it was a quick sketch, I think it deserves more attention than a scrap.)

I was going through some relationship issues at the time, and I really needed to get it all off my chest. It's not often I pose past lovers in an evil, much less negative light. This just came out of me, though, and it's been sticking with me as one of my better pieces since the day I made it.

It's a PS layout for a website, simply put. I work with web about as much as I do PS, and this is how I create websites anyway. What I wanted to do here was create a webpage charactistic of online "labirynths", if you will (overage4design.com's Ars Fusoria, [link] , is an example, though Tale of the Sisters would be much smaller). Take the layers in photoshop, optimize them and design them for the purpose of web; add DHTML, transparency, some flash if necessary, and any other elements needed to make the layout web-borne, and there's your breathing, living piece of web-art.

I've yet to do this with Tale of the Sisters; I hope to make it as an art project for school. I've been busy with the new version of secondseraph.com in the meantime. But for the PS version of this piece, I'll eventually refine the design and make it cleaner and spiffier, as well as update the text.

The text at the bottom is a lyric from Thou Shalt Not's "Inside of You, in Spite of You", which played a big role in the healing part of the piece's backdrop of situation and emotion.

NOTE: I'm an only child. The word "Sister" is a metaphor for "soulmate" and, in the context of this piece, past lovers. The idea is that, though the piece is called "Tale of the Sisters" (plural), there is only one sister, and these were the failed and painful attempts (some moreso than others) in trying to find her.

Description
Though this looks like a full deviation, and it probably could be, it was actually a quick concept "sketch" done in the space of half an hour. (NOTE: I've now moved this piece from Scraps to my regular gallery—even if it was a quick sketch, I think it deserves more attention than a scrap.)

I was going through some relationship issues at the time, and I really needed to get it all off my chest. It's not often I pose past lovers in an evil, much less negative light. This just came out of me, though, and it's been sticking with me as one of my better pieces since the day I made it.

It's a PS layout for a website, simply put. I work with web about as much as I do PS, and this is how I create websites anyway. What I wanted to do here was create a webpage charactistic of online "labirynths", if you will (overage4design.com's Ars Fusoria, [link] , is an example, though Tale of the Sisters would be much smaller). Take the layers in photoshop, optimize them and design them for the purpose of web; add DHTML, transparency, some flash if necessary, and any other elements needed to make the layout web-borne, and there's your breathing, living piece of web-art.

I've yet to do this with Tale of the Sisters; I hope to make it as an art project for school. I've been busy with the new version of secondseraph.com in the meantime. But for the PS version of this piece, I'll eventually refine the design and make it cleaner and spiffier, as well as update the text.

The text at the bottom is a lyric from Thou Shalt Not's "Inside of You, in Spite of You", which played a big role in the healing part of the piece's backdrop of situation and emotion.

NOTE: I'm an only child. The word "Sister" is a metaphor for "soulmate" and, in the context of this piece, past lovers. The idea is that, though the piece is called "Tale of the Sisters" (plural), there is only one sister, and these were the failed and painful attempts (some moreso than others) in trying to find her.