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Gearworld: Jackalope Offering by ~ursulav:iconursulav:


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Submitted: March 19
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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.

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*Superdemon-Inuyasha:iconSuperdemon-Inuyasha: Mar 19, 2008, 4:29:08 PM
very nice 8D great job on this!

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~ "We're not retreating, we're advancing in a different direction!"
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~eMiLy19:iconeMiLy19: Mar 19, 2008, 4:29:36 PM
beautiful!

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Non semper ea sunt quae videntur -phaedrus
~Dagwin:iconDagwin: Mar 19, 2008, 4:31:07 PM
I'm glad you got better! :)

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A soul of water
a soul of stone
a soul un-named
a soul unknown
the hours unmake
our flesh
our bone
the soul is all
and all alone.

-Clive Barker
~Theory-Azael:iconTheory-Azael: Mar 19, 2008, 4:38:46 PM
YAH! Gearworld! *flails*

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.

--
'As she saw it, clocks were analogous to time. They were little time houses and somewhere inside them time propelled the changing of their numbers, the movement of their arrow-shaped hands.'

- Pie-IX
~saucekay:iconsaucekay: Mar 19, 2008, 4:43:53 PM
I was going to be put on Effexor XR if the Lexapro hadn't decided to kick in. We could've been med buddies. How fantastic.

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.
~lethe-gray:iconlethe-gray: Mar 19, 2008, 4:46:54 PM
I needed this right about now. I'm miserable and considering having yet another nervous breakdown. I've been on meds and I know they work wonders.

And I love jackalopes :)

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We are right beside you jark.
~Taluria:iconTaluria: Mar 19, 2008, 4:52:52 PM
This is simply put, gorgeous... I love the textures...

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Being atypical is hard!
~Murder-Junkie:iconMurder-Junkie: Mar 19, 2008, 5:01:32 PM
If I had money, this would be on my wall as soon as possible. Even though Effexor didn't work for me, and I've been on that pharm for almost ten years now, I still have hope. ...It's about all I have left.

Hooray for the noble and proud Jackalope! (and teeny tiny fish!)

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Stop taking yourself so damn seriously.
~IrisAyame:iconIrisAyame: Mar 19, 2008, 5:03:02 PM
"there's something very weird and a little freaky about deliberately hacking your own brain."

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.

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Dum spiro spero, quae sursum volo videre.

Alis volat propriis...
~109cita:icon109cita: Mar 19, 2008, 5:04:26 PM
Spent a few months on the Prozac.
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.
;p

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I'm the backward poet who writes inverse.
My clubs:
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That's enough