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A real life collaboration between
nimrais and myself. This painting will be at Eurofurence. :)
It's one of those paintings which don't require much explaination. Let your feelings guide you when you look at it.
Thanks a lot for looking <3
A real life collaboration between
nimrais and myself. This painting will be at Eurofurence. :)It's one of those paintings which don't require much explaination. Let your feelings guide you when you look at it.
Thanks a lot for looking <3
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Heh. My interpretation - and I'm pretty sure it's probably different from your initial thought! - was that it's Buddhist metaphor. I suspect the bright colors and the crossed legs of the reflection are what make me think of that! The idea being that this poor schlep is caught in a world of loss and pain, and yet is able to perhaps see beyond it to find something glorious and good.
At any rate, it's an incredible picture, and I hope most people respond well to it!
At any rate, it's an incredible picture, and I hope most people respond well to it!
I'll be the odd one out here. Partially. Firstly, wonderful, wonderful art. Secondly though, I see this a tad different than most here see it. I see the reflection on the past, and what was, that the tiger remembers, but I also see no sign that what was cannot be again. You could say I see the reflection as an image of what was and will be again. Fires come and fires go, it is part of life. Something usually survives though, and sometimes things require a fire to sprout and grow into beauty.
I see it as lost love. When you are first in love the world around you seems so beautiful, you feel happy and nothing can bring you down..until they leave or they hurt you. Then the world you have built becomes a shadow of it's former self. It's burnt destroyed and every now and then your mind will revisit those moments whether you like it or not to return to those memories when you were surrounded by beauty even though the world around you has changed so drastically
This seriously is the perfect depiction of myself. My life has gone to crap lately. I've been jobless for over a year after receiving my college degree (and thusly massive personal debt), over time I've lost a lot of friends (some just drifting away, others removing themselves from our world), the little part-time jobs I have found and come and gone from stress me out like none other, and most recently, (very briefly) my gf leaving me for another guy out of the blue... I'm in that dark, despairing place at the top of the picture right now... and I can't help but frequently think back to just 5-7 years ago, how happy I was, how easy life was, and most notably, how positive I was. I can't help but wonder... 'What the hell happened?'
This piece has moved me dramatically. I'm wiping a tear away right now. If I had the chance to be at EF, I would have seriously gone for it. Thanks for sharing this with us, I really appreciate it
This piece has moved me dramatically. I'm wiping a tear away right now. If I had the chance to be at EF, I would have seriously gone for it. Thanks for sharing this with us, I really appreciate it
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