True true... And beautiful as always

Gorgeous piece!

Agree with the sentiment and appreciate depictions of the concept! :)

<3 This piece, but I especially love your words.

Makes me glad my father was a good man.

Committing sins doesn't effect some people: you have to have a soul for that.

Your art always has this profound and sincere meaning that I rarely find anywhere else. Please keep creating, it is a delight to the eyes and the heart <3

I feel like medicine has taken a very objective shift, which is fine for broken bones and such, but as a result we've kinda ignored at the subjective parts of ourselves that need care!

This artwork holds a special place in my heart.

I was often haunted by nightmares of being in a war, a refugee with a destroyed home, always on the run, always surrounded by gun fire and death and rape and PURE FEAR. I also noticed how WW2 movies and documentaries always made me sick (I felt like throwing up and needed to recover for a few days), while other war/battle stories didn't affect me as much. I never gave these things so much thought, however.

One day I went to trauma therapy, mainly because I had been sexually abused as a child three times, but there was this one time where I can't remember everything. I read it's part of PTSD to forget things, while it still haunts you inside dreams and incomplete flashbacks... which I suffered from, too. So I wanted to find out what I forgot, so I could deal with it. So I could heal.

Unfortunately, I couldn't remember what I had forgotten. But I did learn that the war dreams and WW2 thing was, in fact, an inherited trauma from my German grandmother. She was an innocent citizen (no nazi or anything), who had lost a lot, was raped by Russian soldiers literally 30 times until they thought she was dead and got thrown away like garbage. She got pregnant from it, and damaged herself so she would lose the baby. She is also a twin, lost her twin sister to war. I don't know if she got shot, or raped to death.

My trauma therapist told me that a trauma can last up to 5 generations.

But here is the odd thing: My grandmother has two children (after marrying a nice man), a son and daughter (my mother). Her SON inherited the trauma, and he has no biological children. But somehow the trauma went to ME!

So there is this... theory that, in the spirit world before birth, I decided to take the burden for the next generation. Out of love. Or some bullshit.

Yay me! :P

Anyway, the war trauma I learned to handle better now that I know where it came from.

Children always suffer from what adults are doing to each other.

This speaks to me on a personal level. Will you be selling prints of this work? :O

Oooh, i really want this on my wall.

As someone who has had to break the generational curse of "keeping quiet" about the abuse family members inflicted on myself and others, I feel this piece. Before the chain is broken, the pain and sickness seems unending. Ive never felt so much lighter in all my life deciding to cut off that part of the family after confronting them and they decided not to do anything about it. I feel as if my life is finally mine.


This piece is gorgeous, I always enjoy the subject matter, patterns and meanings behind your work. Thank you so much for sharing with us!

THis is a stunning piece and hugely impactful, I hope you'll be offering prints of this one in the future? (It'd actually make an incredible wall hanging or tapestry too)

I immediately had the song "wild eyes" from Parkway Drive in my ears:

We build our dreams from the ashes of your nightmares
Carry our father's sins from the cradle to the grave
We blaze our path through the darkness that you left us in
Now we ride in the belly of the beast
We are the diamonds that choose to stay coal
A generation born to witness the end of the world

No regrets we inherit the sins of the fathers
Now reap the vengeance

That's an awesome concept. ^^

Powerful piece!

Trauma echoes in us in ways we sometimes even have no way of knowing.

And this is a microcosm of the greater violence of society as well.