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Full Title: Sleep is the Cousin of Death (Self Portrait in Poppy Field)

Mixed Media (Watercolor, ink and enamel on paper/ aluminum)

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Given 2009-07-26

Perilously hypnotic by way of a keen arrangement of illustrative elements, while enhancing the viewing experience with clear dexterity in the handling of various mediums, creating multi-faceted, shimmering depth, and a magnetic sense of weight... all to convey a deeply poetic notion... please enjoy Sleep is the Cousin of Death by ~LaliMarin79. (Suggested by =jinxedbyemily and Featured by ^snowmask)

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:iconjinxedbyemily:
Gosh, I really like this.The redness of the poppies is so vibrant, and I see you went back to the aluminum again! Aren't self-portraits neat? I've always felt that I learn something about myself every time I do one. That's so cool, I'm actually working on a self-portrait for IB right not, too. XD
:iconlalimarin79:
Thanks for the comment! Yeah all of my ib stuff is due tomorrow, how about you?
:iconjinxedbyemily:
For art? I think all my pics have to be in later this month or early next month? Ugh. I barely did anything this year. My exam is in late April. My cas hours are due on the 15th, and I don't have enough... I'm screwed. But, I really don't care anymore. I just want to graduate in the top 10, and have the college I want to go to accept me. IB doesn't mean anything anymore.
:icontareksalom:
oye, te quedo increible. los autoretratos pueden llegar a ser complicados. me gusta mucho como te quedo :D
:iconff-7:
That's very nice :)

Cousin of death?I thougt it was the twin :ninja:
:iconbugsey58:
Alas, I have never heard a truer statement.

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Me: I'm American with an inner Canadian who likes Russia!
(in response to my friend's inner Brit)

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:icongaianbells:
Lovely!

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You have a better idea for this? :|
:iconhardcorepotato:
reminds me of so many things, maybe the effect of the different media used. very abstract, I'm not sure where I am at first. The girl is whispering or kissing something, poppies it says, but they are red. It could mean a lot. But the red is the only color, it's striking, again, it becomes symbolic. The poppies seem arranged, leading to the back of this solid structure, one might say a Colossus, a figure, ominous in the background, hiding something.

Perhaps one could attribute the pillars and the structure as a phallus (an object representing power, a male organ, the pillar and it's supporters are the support of a patriarchal society, suppressing the ';passion' of the girl. I can only guess the meaning of the color red as ';passion.'

Suppression is the theme, the feminine's imagination suppressed by phallic structures in the background.

but then of course. that's just me.

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:iconabrakastabinyaz:
you did an amazing job.
its so cold but sincere

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:iconniuuby:
Sleep is the cousin of death...

I think they're even brothers!


Beautiful work :meow:

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"Haha, my death note!" I always answer ;P

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Oct 12, 2005, 11:47:48 PM

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