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Over the years, I've done several works with the concept of humans stealing wings from birds to look like angels
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In those works, the decision to be selfish was always presented as a conscious choice, but what if it's not a choice? At least not in the regular sense. What if humanity's narcissism is so intrinsic to being human that in an ironic sense, we are also victims?
In the attempt to elevate humanity's image to the level of imaginary angels, humans have caged themselves with the ideology of perfection. The expression on the human's face is a tell tale hint of its level of self awareness.
Drawn in Paint tool SAI
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Comments: 844
yet another powerful and evocative piece;
i will be watching your development with keen interest.
i can see your art going in many different ways at once in the coming years.
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This is an interesting concept, I love the feel and color choices
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I love how I see some artwork of yours that's super impactful and then I just look over a bit and see your dancing L gif
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I LOVE your, what I call "we are not angels" works. They are beautifully haunting. out of all of them so far (I'm hoping for more 
May your art work show you as much kindness as it has shown me.
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I SEE LIKE IM IN A MUSEUM AND ITS NOT THE BONE MUSEUM THIS TIME----
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I love this...
I love angels
And wings
And I know this not angel...
But I love it
To bits
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I've been staring at this picture for about 12 minutes.
Yup. I love it.
The face and bones and pose and everything is so great. I can'tseriouslygottagoΒ
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love the shape of the shadow and the colors that you used for her eyes well done!
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you miss, are awesome (would like to keep seeing that awesomeness in FP XD)
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Your work is crazy amazing. I love reading about every piece. Very eye opening.
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I really love how you include a description of what the artwork is about. This piece is always one of my favourites but this is the first time I've ever bothered to actually look at the description and you conveyed your meaning perfectly. Your idea game across really well c:
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I am amazed everytime i look at this beautiful piece! i love it so much! you did a great job!
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Is that a turtle carcass?
Wonderful picture.
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Lovely meaning; true to an extent (in some places/people more than others); would make a nice something. The shadow is a bird's skeleton.
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wow strabiliante il volto poi Γ¨ davvero bello e definito
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Could I get your permission to do a live action version of this in the future (sculpt the bones and photograph with model)? Non profit of course
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Really cool concept, and an amazing piece overall.
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Would it be okay if I used this concept? If I ever poset the results, you will be credited!
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this is absolutely beautiful and i love the concept
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Excellent piece! I can really feel how much this means to you; it shows. Though I'd say it's a little unfair to call humans intrinsically selfish; there's not an animal alive that survives without devouring another life-form. Circle of life and all that jazz, unfortunately D:
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Only now do I realize that the shadow is a bird's skeleton...
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I didn't notice til I saw this comment! brilliant.
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WHAAAAAT?! This is awesome! Teach me if you will, friend, how you've become so L33T!
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Woah, also huge wings, anad awkward question but is she wearing anything else? other than the bones?? It's beautiful otherwise.
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*+speechless..+*... wow you naileddd it
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Ok, that's just plain cool. I could get into an entire discussion on the angel topic that you stated, but that would probably take too much space. In any case, kudos on the piece! I have a few friends who are inspired by your work (frankly, I cannot discount myself from that group), so keep it up!
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Dunno if I've commented about your concept behind this image, but anyway, I absolutely love it--the idea of humans stealing the wings of birds in order to look like angels is just...WOW!
It made me fall in love with the painting all over again.
Beautiful work :]
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Is it just me, or does the shadow look like a bird? XD
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The expression! just so deep! absolutely love this picture!!!
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