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Death Mask Work In Progress by ~andsoitburns:iconandsoitburns:

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This is not done but I would LOVE some feedback. This drawing is dealing with my "death mask" concept of the box...the box being the mask...the box also being a cross when folded up. i am debating whether or not to put into the background the drawing of the procession of the cross folding into the box. If I don't people probably won't understand unless it is just explained but I wan't it to make people think. The shapes in the background now are some ideas I was coming up with for the procession....just slightly abstracted. Anything thoughts on this topic or criticisms on the technical side?

Oh yeah...also, this is kind of a side project/ spin off of a larger work I am in the process of right now. This particular drawing was just an idea I came up with while working on the other one. Wanted to try something simple, bold but still with a message. I used an 8B woodless graphite pencil, a 4b woodless graphite pencil, white compressed charcoal, and a white charcoal pencil all on a cardboard box.

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!Acadian10 Aug 21, 2005, 7:57:58 PM
Brilliant! I find myself without words! And it's amazing no one commented on this yet!

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But where danger is, grows
The saving power also.

"Patmos" by Friedrich Holderlin
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~andsoitburns Aug 21, 2005, 8:05:12 PM
Wow thank you.

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Mock guilt and welcome hell.
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=Marie-Aude Aug 22, 2005, 4:01:21 AM
I love your drawings very much.

I don't see it as a death mask, to be honest, maybe as an allegory of normal life, where we are blinded, make very often choices without knowing the consequences, or the real grounds why we make these choices. Also something about communication, I'd say, with these lines going inside, or through despite the box, or just passing by, because of the box.

A man, a normal man, standing alone in a world he can't really see "as is", among people he can't really communicate with. Could be death, could be the ordinary life of a lot of people.

Maybe my way of seing this is influenced by my current readings (Castaņeda), may be...

So it does not axactly fit your intention, but it makes me think anyway.

From a pure composition point of view, I like the shape which is not closed, I'd say it would be better that the onther ones are also not limitated to the frame. And the fact that there is nothng "under" makes the silhouette more impressive even.
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~andsoitburns Aug 22, 2005, 6:49:01 AM
Thanks for the thoughts. You sorta missed the idea, not....by far but....more by technicality or whatever. My point of the box was a specific refference to religion. The death mask part is a refference to a line in a song "wearing your death mask at birth" the whole thing is meant to be that, not all, but many religious people I know are "wearing their death mask" simply because they have had religion shoved down their throats since they were born and they are now too blinded or whatever you want to call it to be able to see anything or even understand many concepts outside of what they have been told. Again this is not directed at ALL religious people.

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Mock guilt and welcome hell.
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~andsoitburns Aug 22, 2005, 6:50:25 AM
Oh and thanks for the opinion compositionally. I was also considering putting in another figure, the same figure, just from a different angle. The angle is an even more extreme view from below. What do you think? probably kinda hard to picture but i'd still like to know your thoughts.

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Mock guilt and welcome hell.
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=Marie-Aude Aug 22, 2005, 7:01:42 AM
I'm not sure this is so far away. Lack of communication, lack of seing the others, being in one's universe is also kind of being dead :)

The sketch is not yet explicitly making reference to religion, and even if I read about crosses in your text, crosses are so universal a symbol that one can think about it without making it specifically religious.

But I see what you mean. Would be interested in having the entire song's text. Because I totally agree with the concept
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=Marie-Aude Aug 22, 2005, 7:02:34 AM
Could be interesting. I think it would work only if that was the same figure. Kind of cloning, and, as you say, different points of view, from outside
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~andsoitburns Aug 22, 2005, 8:10:59 AM
I know what you mean, thats why I said you weren't completely off. Just.....in a different direction with the same idea. "The sketch is not yet explicitly making reference to religion" that is why I was considering and now probably going to put more refferences into the background of not only the cross and the box but some more religion-specific refferences....just gotta figure out what and how.

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Mock guilt and welcome hell.
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~andsoitburns Aug 22, 2005, 8:11:44 AM
Yeah it is the same figure, just a more extreme angle. I think I will sketch it in and see how I like it. I might post it.

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Mock guilt and welcome hell.
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~andsoitburns Aug 22, 2005, 8:12:01 AM
Yeah it is the same figure, just a more extreme angle. I think I will sketch it in and see how I like it. I might post it.

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Mock guilt and welcome hell.
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