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When Indeed They Cry

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“We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry”
~ John Webster


Rendered in Poser Pro 2010. Postwork in Photoshop.

"Depressives use the phrase, 'over the edge' all the time to delineate the passage from pain to madness. This very physical description frequently entails 'falling into the abyss.' It's odd that so many people have such a consistent vocabulary, because the edge is really quite an abstracted metaphor. Few of us have fallen off the edge of anything, and certainly not into an abyss. The Grand Canyon? A Norwegian fjord? A South African diamond mine? It's difficult to even find an abyss to fall into. When asked, people define the abyss pretty consistently. In the first place, it's dark. You are falling away from sunlight toward a place where the shadows are black. Inside it, you cannot see, and the dangers are everywhere (it's neither soft-bottomed, nor soft-sided, the abyss). While you are falling, you do not know how deep you can go, or whether you can find any way to stop yourself. You hit invisible things over and over again until you are shredded, and yet your environment is too unstable for you to catch onto anything."

From The Noonday Demon by Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Andrew Solomon.
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Ippotamus's avatar
Very powerful.  I really like this image because it lets me fill in the blanks. 
There is enough information missing to make it personal.
So cool.
Awesome framing with the bars too.  :)