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Blackbirdmotel — Secret Cemetery

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Published: 2015-08-28 15:03:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 792; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 13
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Description Acrylic on board.  15" x 10".  2015.

My Mom told me that her great-grandparents were buried in a wooded area and that she and my grandfather found it when she was a little girl.  The trees had grown up around the private cemetery and its existence was hidden from the rest of the world.  I've never seen it but this is how I imagine it.
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Comments: 15

mystic2u [2018-05-15 17:48:22 +0000 UTC]

May I use your image for a narration video on YouTube? It'll only be used for audition purposes, and you will be credited. 

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Blackbirdmotel In reply to mystic2u [2018-05-16 14:50:29 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely.  

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mystic2u In reply to Blackbirdmotel [2018-05-16 18:53:25 +0000 UTC]

Thank yous! ^_^

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ramkumariyer [2015-09-30 15:06:36 +0000 UTC]

this is excellent karen ! emotionally scary

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MellissaAstraea [2015-09-16 22:48:13 +0000 UTC]

Creepy and beautiful

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Blackbirdmotel In reply to MellissaAstraea [2015-09-17 14:22:01 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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Parker-Weston [2015-09-09 05:40:41 +0000 UTC]

Even at the brightest point of day, you still can't read the worn away epitaphs.

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Blackbirdmotel In reply to Parker-Weston [2015-09-17 14:21:44 +0000 UTC]

No, they vanish with the memories of those buried there.  You're not really dead until everybody forgets you.

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Parker-Weston In reply to Blackbirdmotel [2015-09-18 03:23:47 +0000 UTC]

The fleeting validation of memory.

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OnyxFaustus [2015-09-06 00:55:58 +0000 UTC]

Love this painting!
An abandoned cemetery in the woods.. that sounds really cool to me. I would've loved to have seen it.
Also, looking at this over again, I don't know if you did this on purpose, but I see faces between the trees, particularly in the left bottom corner, which makes the painting all the more eerie and cool. Great work!

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Blackbirdmotel In reply to OnyxFaustus [2015-09-17 14:23:01 +0000 UTC]

You know, no matter how much I fight them, they still manage to get in there.

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OnyxFaustus In reply to Blackbirdmotel [2015-09-17 23:02:13 +0000 UTC]

Happens to all of us Not a bad thing, though. They add to the creepiness and the atmosphere!

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single-leg [2015-09-02 14:41:43 +0000 UTC]

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Not in a hidden forest but in a crime filled city..

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pexyn [2015-08-31 03:15:12 +0000 UTC]

Oh yeah. Deep in the swampy lands of Louisana or Alabama...I can see this.

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Blackbirdmotel In reply to pexyn [2015-09-02 13:36:07 +0000 UTC]

 

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