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Submitted: March 19, 2008
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Submitted: March 19, 2008
File Size: 120 KB
Image Size: 120 KB
Resolution: 446×900
Comments: 90
Favourites & Collections: 454 [who?]
Views
Total: 11,526
Today: 1
Downloads
Total: 120
Today: 0
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My last gearworld painting was an offering to the gods of love--this one is an offering, if such exist, to the gods of psychopharmacology.
I painted it while coming off a five-month stint on Effexor XR, an antidepressant. If you've never been in the state of requiring meds to haul you out of a hole--well, may the merciful gods keep such a fate far from you. A lot of the time it felt like I was crawling along, following a trail of exceedingly peculiar breadcrumbs, in the hopes that it'd lead back to myself at the end. And it did, and so I am terribly grateful to the miracles of modern chemistry, but at the same time, there's something very weird and a little freaky about deliberately hacking your own brain.
So, jackalope skull, hung with pills and the obligatory small fish, and my apologies for the pretentiousness of the imagery, but it was what I had to work with. The background graffiti is mostly a listing of side-effects and warnings to avoid alcohol/empty stomach/orgasms/heavy machinery/etc.
This, I suspect, is the last Gearworld painting for at least a little time--I felt the door in my head close with a click when it was done. Oh, well. It comes when it comes--back to waiting for the next crack under the door.
Acrylic/mixed media on gessoboard, 12 x 24, original is sold, prints are available, send a note or visit [link] for details.
I painted it while coming off a five-month stint on Effexor XR, an antidepressant. If you've never been in the state of requiring meds to haul you out of a hole--well, may the merciful gods keep such a fate far from you. A lot of the time it felt like I was crawling along, following a trail of exceedingly peculiar breadcrumbs, in the hopes that it'd lead back to myself at the end. And it did, and so I am terribly grateful to the miracles of modern chemistry, but at the same time, there's something very weird and a little freaky about deliberately hacking your own brain.
So, jackalope skull, hung with pills and the obligatory small fish, and my apologies for the pretentiousness of the imagery, but it was what I had to work with. The background graffiti is mostly a listing of side-effects and warnings to avoid alcohol/empty stomach/orgasms/heavy machinery/etc.
This, I suspect, is the last Gearworld painting for at least a little time--I felt the door in my head close with a click when it was done. Oh, well. It comes when it comes--back to waiting for the next crack under the door.
Acrylic/mixed media on gessoboard, 12 x 24, original is sold, prints are available, send a note or visit [link] for details.
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Okay, fangirling aside, this is great. If this is what comin' off Effexor does to ya, well, at least it can be said that there is an artistic upside to not being dependent on the drugs.
Hopefully whatever gods of psychopharmacology exist are as pleased with this as the rest of us and give you some damned peace for a while! But we're all very glad you're doin' better.
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They called it war and made us soldiers, gave us guns and made us kill. They bandaged our wounds, stitched up our scars, made dolls of our shells stuffed with bullets, and packaged us away labelled "damaged goods".
All the same - I'm definitely favoriting this, if only because I could use an offering to the gods of psychopharmacology on my side as well.
And I love jackalopes
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Hooray for the noble and proud Jackalope! (and teeny tiny fish!)
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Stop taking yourself so damn seriously.
Never have I heard it so deliberately, accurately, nor eloquently put. Well said.
This is just wonderful and exquisite! If I had several hundred dollars for you, I'd certainly be honored to grace my walls with it. Sadly, the thought will have to do, though it's probably been snatched up already.
Thanks you for continuing to make beautiful things despite all the hardships.
Gained a few loverly pounds.
Now, I just grab some St. John's Wort
whenever my heart's feeling down.
So glad that it worked for you too.
Does the god (goddess perhaps) of pharmacology
have a name?
Probably too busy to bother
with our pitiful prayers anyway.
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I'm the backward poet who writes inverse.
My clubs:
Llama Club
That's enough
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