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"It seems like forever since the world ended. The atrocities you survived now feel like nothing more than an old recurring dream. A new being gestated in purgatory, a new home stands in an empty universe. Light spills in but the windows don't need glass. When your eyes adjust, come back to us. If you must be told, we missed you."
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August 7, 2017
Charcoal and Graphite on Paper
2.5' x 3'
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Photography by Tiggy Ara
Model is Liv Sage

This piece is meant to represent, in my experience, the final stage in overcoming anxiety. Identify the problem, fix it and then come back, improved. As simply as I explained it, the process took me four years to complete and was extremely taxing and at many times, unbearable. In my case, I had a horribly flawed view of the world and the people in it. The solution required I totally deconstruct my belief system, opinions, my self perception and then restructure and rebuild them. Upon thinking about this, I remembered a verse from the Bible which ended up inspiring the written portion and the title.

Luke 22:10 - "And he said unto them, behold, when you are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he enters in."
This verse has been interpreted by some to illustrate the transition from the age of Pisces to the age of Aquarius. Simply put, I likened it to the transition i experienced from childhood to adulthood, in a psychological sense -- breaking down the useless and obsolete perspectives I formed in my upbringing and replacing them with the more practical, rational and efficient perspectives that will bring me independence, capability and success, thus bringing about, quite literally, a new self or a new age. A rebirth, if you will.

Description
"It seems like forever since the world ended. The atrocities you survived now feel like nothing more than an old recurring dream. A new being gestated in purgatory, a new home stands in an empty universe. Light spills in but the windows don't need glass. When your eyes adjust, come back to us. If you must be told, we missed you."
.
August 7, 2017
Charcoal and Graphite on Paper
2.5' x 3'
.
INSTAGRAM
FACEBOOK
.
Photography by Tiggy Ara
Model is Liv Sage

This piece is meant to represent, in my experience, the final stage in overcoming anxiety. Identify the problem, fix it and then come back, improved. As simply as I explained it, the process took me four years to complete and was extremely taxing and at many times, unbearable. In my case, I had a horribly flawed view of the world and the people in it. The solution required I totally deconstruct my belief system, opinions, my self perception and then restructure and rebuild them. Upon thinking about this, I remembered a verse from the Bible which ended up inspiring the written portion and the title.

Luke 22:10 - "And he said unto them, behold, when you are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he enters in."
This verse has been interpreted by some to illustrate the transition from the age of Pisces to the age of Aquarius. Simply put, I likened it to the transition i experienced from childhood to adulthood, in a psychological sense -- breaking down the useless and obsolete perspectives I formed in my upbringing and replacing them with the more practical, rational and efficient perspectives that will bring me independence, capability and success, thus bringing about, quite literally, a new self or a new age. A rebirth, if you will.