Monday, October 1, 2012

locked in an image


“that's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what she really is. most people love you for who you pretend to be. yo keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. you get to love your pretence. it's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. they love their chains. they forget all about who they really are. and if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.”

- jim morrison

text is a scan of a manuscript of Sylvia Plath's poem "Ariel"

9 comments:

  1. Awesome work. The mirror is a very impressive effect.

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  2. very impressive and thought provoking, nice how you put the text over the shattered glass

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  3. wow, great combination of text and image!

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  4. Stunning art, Beth! A perfect interpretation of the Morrison quote. I enjoyed seeing all your art here. Thank you for sharing your talents with us!

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  5. Inspiring and thought-provoking to get caught up with all your wonderfully creative imagery from the past several weeks that I've been away. Such a pleasure to view your work, even though--or perhaps because of--the subject matter is not always "easy".

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  6. Really amazing art and very inspiring words. I really amazed and I'm glad I found your blog. Thank you so much I really appreciated it.

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