Click on image for full viewWow... what a switch from all those light images of "flight"... but I have been flooded with lots of images for this topic as well. (Time to cut down on those triple-shot lattés...)
The first and most acute image of sorrow for me is the loss of a child... a parent having to release their offspring, regardless of age, to death is agonizing. The tragedies in the Middle East - carbombings and wars, the tsunami in SE Asia - so many innocents drowned and battered, swept away from their families, the horrors of Africa's civil wars and genocide in Sudan and Rwanda, the predators in our own society who would snatch our children from their innocence and harm them in so many awful ways, diseases that we haven't found the cure for cutting short promise and joy... these all conjured up images of parents finding their children murdered or killed by the catastrophes that they are powerless to control. I have 3 children and the thought of losing any of them prematurely or violently makes me cry at the thought...
13 comments:
very intense and devastating. maybe it's because I have a little one, but this image really struck deep.
very powerful.
Very well done. It tears at my heart and that is what an artist wants. Way to go.
Makes me feel delicate - so I refuse to think about the subject, BUT I really like the composition and how you've cropped the subject ... but still too sad!
such a powerful image. i adore your work and look forward to seeing more!
really great work...i think if the rest of IF's images are like yours, i'd better put a box of Kleenex by my comp!
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This image makes me feel upset. Which is good, because that's exactly what it's supposed to do. Beautiful work!
~Bertha
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I agree .. very powerful!I did what kate did!...
This causes a strong reaction, which is why it is so good. Really intense and really well done.
Poignant and powerful. I like the composition, too, the flow of the mother's hair framing the left side, as if it's flowing down to embrace or protect the child.
Annie B
the idea of this picture is trully the only one true pain
if this ever happened to my child
it would end me
forver
its very moving
i love it. it shows a characteristic of life that no one can escape and i think that it takes an amazing artist to show it in his/her artwork. it moves me hard and i'm glad to have seen it. it's a great piece.
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