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Self Portrait: The Hanging by ~dcwilson:icondcwilson:

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©2009 ~dcwilson
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Spring 2009
Acrylic and gold metallic paint.


Gold is the color of understanding, of death and rebirth. It has a power in it that I have not seen anywhere else. It lays nestled in the cavity of my chest, gently pulsing, slightly luminous.

I've never been one for self-portraits, but this past year has done something to me. Spiritual revival, death in the family, and attempts at your own life- they're influential on one's art and one's view of themselves. I had to do a portrait, and in doing so, I looked at what had been hurting me. I took it out and made it stare directly back at me. Only then, looking each other with eyes of marbles and eyes of mirrors, could we finally understand each other.

Daily Deviation

Given 2009-06-17

Rarely is such a notion portrayed in so clear-cut a manner, whilst preserving a buoyant, melodic aura. Self Portrait: The Hanging by ~dcwilson is certainly one from an astounding gallery that haunts the mind and levitates the senses. (Suggested by =Culumon and Featured by ^snowmask)

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~Chloroformaldehyde Mar 1, 2009, 10:07:09 AM
Wow, this is a really strong and beautiful piece. The comments intensify the meaning here, really gives me a grasp of it. For the first time in my life, I think I'm speechless.
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~dcwilson Mar 1, 2009, 10:30:37 AM
Nyaw. Thank you, dearest.
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*Ech0plex Mar 1, 2009, 10:43:22 AM
This is really powerful. It's wonderful that you could do this - take something like that out of yourself and look at it, understand it. The look in your eyes is...unsettling. I feel like you understand something the rest of us don't.

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A bad time? No...there's no such thing as bad. Or time, for that matter.
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~dcwilson Mar 1, 2009, 11:14:45 AM
Oddly enough, and not to sound elitist, I think I just might.

Thank you.
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~topios Mar 8, 2009, 3:48:09 AM
I give up Deebird, I don't think I can say anything good and meaningful about this. I've tried to come up with something, I really have, but it all just goes mushy along the way and I'm left with a feeling of "bad roots" (not ment as a pun if it can be taken that way).

I never was good at any kind of deeper understanding, least of all of myself, but I never really felt any need to know myself like that... if that makes any sense.

Maybe I shouldn't have said anything at all, but then, how would you know I'd been here?

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Reality is overrated.
...most of the time.
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~dcwilson Mar 8, 2009, 8:36:15 PM
Hehehe! It's alright lovely. You take what you can from this- there is no need to give anything back!
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~topios Mar 9, 2009, 8:49:37 AM
Aww, but I like giving, and it feels wrong not to say anything at all.

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Reality is overrated.
...most of the time.
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~Wizardinc Jun 16, 2009, 11:05:15 PM
Grats on the DD :D

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John

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=Ff-7 Jun 16, 2009, 11:05:31 PM
I didnt expect that when i saw the top of the picture :XD:

So awsome

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I dont reply to retards talking about my avatar~
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~MythArcana Jun 16, 2009, 11:18:05 PM
Quite interesting and some nice symbolism in this piece! It's more fun to drink yourself to death, but this id definitely much faster! :D Excellent piece and congratulations on the DD! :D

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