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The correct title is: “$uffo˘ation”

It took me 2 months into this drawing project, to discover the hidden $ymbol! And then it all made sense: On one hand I was regaining my drawing skills, but on the other hand I had an obsessive relationship to money, an unhealthy one where I experienced having little, and feeling the peer pressure of everyone around me wanting me to focus more on it.

While I’ve had intervals of being self-destructive, this is a manifestation of the frustration of not having enough and constantly being reminded of it; the internal struggle I was going through, feeling skills coming back, but with illness, insomnia and an overactive empathy, feeling what everyone around me wanted of/for me but illogically multiplying it 10-folds in my mind, many times failing to follow advices given, and feeling suffocated by an obsessive focus on economic worries, sleepless, and astray from the path of solutions.

More at my blog: [link]

@ drawn on A4 (11.69" x 8.26") smooth Bristol paper with assorted pencils. 20110830: uploaded higher res full view to show more detail :)
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*Shelfcloud Sep 1, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Definitely a reflection of an artistic mind with artistic range!
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=intrinsic Sep 2, 2012  Professional General Artist
Oh yes, a long story there of things one go through in life, but it tends to solve one way or another giving things time and effort =)
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*Shelfcloud Sep 2, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I'm interested... :)
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*Shelfcloud Sep 2, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
yup... deja vu :D
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=intrinsic Sep 2, 2012  Professional General Artist
Indeed, solve or dissolve? or just solve the unsolved by dissolving this solving hmm.. :D
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*Shelfcloud Sep 3, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Dissolve might give you the solution...that is, as a chemist ;)
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=intrinsic Sep 4, 2012  Professional General Artist
haha yes :squee: :D
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*Shelfcloud Sep 4, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
:coffeemachine: :stereo:
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~rebootmaster2001 Aug 17, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
It's a terrible shame that more people haven't commented on this.

First of all this is a beautiful composition with details that accentuate the form instead of detract, which is a very difficult task! Your words about this piece is what topped it off for me. I didn't see the "$" until you said something, but as soon as I knew of it I totally related, and this is a literal form of what I often feel.

Excellent work!
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=intrinsic Aug 17, 2011  Professional General Artist
Thank you for your kind words :)
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