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Artist's Comments Dedicated to  For the Truama Contest being held by =Nirelstock Shattered Memories Most people don't know this about me online, but when I was 5 years old I suffered a sever tragic trauma to my brain. I am medically labeled as a closed head injury survivor & have a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury). I fell off of a 3rd story apartment balcony & landed head first on the sidewalk below. I ended up breaking 3 ribs which punctured my left lung & sever nerve damage on my left arm & shoulder. I was catatonic when the ambulance brought me in to the Hospital. They had to put a chest tube in me and release the blood that was crushing my heart in my chest. By looking at me now, you could never tell anything is wrong with me, but it has effected my whole life. I had learning disabilities all threw my school years. I've had emotional & psychological problems all my life which include social anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, depression, paranoia & OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). And sometimes I have problems communicating, understanding instructions, following directions and living by myself. I lived with my parents until I was 26 and now I live with my Husband who understands my needs and helps me with everything I need help with. I graduated High School in 1998 in Bay City, Michigan. Shortly afterwords my parents & myself moved to Tucson, AZ and I tried so hard to go to college. I wanted to be a Psychologist. I have spent almost all of my life on one side of the Dr.'s table. Always having to have yearly psychological evaluations, seeing neurologists every year, brain specialists, etc. I wanted to be on the other side of things and not to be intimidated by the clinical, medical side of my injury for once. Even though I have learning disabilities I have a very high IQ and am very intelligent. It just takes me longer to understand things than most people. I remember in High School I was a Sophomore and I wanted to take a semester of Psychology, but it was only being offered to Juniors and Seniors. My Parents and social worker pulled some strings and got me in the class. At the end of the semester Finals I ended up pulling the highest grade out of everyone in the class. I knew then I was hooked and wanted to pursue Psychology and help other people like myself. After we moved to AZ, I joined a Tucson's Pima Community College and took a online class of Intro to Psychology. I got a B out of it, but I found it very very hard to do a class by myself online. without having lectures, someone explaining things to you or having any visual aids except a text book that you have to read yourself... it was very difficult. However my social anxiety had forgotten so bad I couldn't attend the in class lectures. So sadly since then I have not taken anymore classes and live of my disability income. In January I will be 30 years old and I feel like this head injury has taken control of my life and wrote out it's own path for me. In some ways I feel like it has shattered my dreams. I think though that what can be broken can be mended. A broken bone can heal, Glass can me glued and rips can be sewed closed. Just because things have not gone exactly how I wish they would have gone does not mean my Injury has won. I really want to go back to College and pursue my dream of helping other Traumatic Brain Injury survivors that have to struggle extra hard with life like I did and still do. So I am entering this picture which really expresses my story on my Injury on how I feel into the Truama Contest being held by =Nirelstock  Thank you for reading my story.  - Model  [link] - Background  - Textures Comments Oh I LOOOVE this one .. frigging brilliant!
-- I reject your reality and substitute my own - Adam - Mythbusters   Awesome work, hon!  -- I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? ~ John Lennon  oh wow!!! amazing work sweetie!
 -- Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies [i'm a slow dying flower]   Marvelous idea, so creative.... I love the cracks on the wall.... she makes me think of Bloody Mary.....
-- I gaze upon the mystery, this lovelorn identity...Frozen beyond the echoes of laughter Draconian  Very cool work, love the idea behind it, the whole piece is very original. The cracked effects go just perfectly with it, great job on it
Thank you. I didn't get a chance last night to write out my story behind this, but it's very personal. If you get a sec I would be honored if you read it. I just edited the image with my story.
 --  My Stock Account  *AshenSorrow My Hubbys Account =silentfuneral My Daughters Account *MisssBarbie"Death is the Graduation of the Soul" ~ Sylvia Browne Thank you sweetie!
 I didn't get a chance last night to write out my story behind this, but it's very personal. If you get a sec I would be honored if you read it. I just edited the image with my story. -- My Stock Account *AshenSorrow My Hubbys Account =silentfuneral My Daughters Account *MisssBarbie"Death is the Graduation of the Soul" ~ Sylvia Browne  Thank you so much doll. I didn't get a chance last night to write out my story behind this, but it's very personal. If you get a sec I would be honored if you read it. I just edited the image with my story. -- My Stock Account *AshenSorrow My Hubbys Account =silentfuneral My Daughters Account *MisssBarbie"Death is the Graduation of the Soul" ~ Sylvia Browne  Thank you very much. I didn't get a chance last night to write out my story behind this, but it's very personal. If you get a sec I would be honored if you read it. I just edited the image with my story. -- My Stock Account *AshenSorrow My Hubbys Account =silentfuneral My Daughters Account *MisssBarbie"Death is the Graduation of the Soul" ~ Sylvia Browne Thanks sweetie.
I didn't get a chance last night to write out my story behind this, but it's very personal. If you get a sec I would be honored if you read it. I just edited the image with my story. -- My Stock Account *AshenSorrow My Hubbys Account =silentfuneral My Daughters Account *MisssBarbie"Death is the Graduation of the Soul" ~ Sylvia Browne |
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Looking at this work that you have done here, I can see how so many elements correspond to your story. No doubt, the character in the mirror would be you. But it's not a reflection of your image in the mirror, it is you, the person, with all your hopes and dreams, trapped within the mirror. Close enough to life in the 'real' world to reach out and touch it occasionally, but never being able to be a part of life outside the glass. In opposition to that, the world outside the glass has a tendancy to pass by, barely even aware that there's a mirror on the wall, much less a soul trapped within.
The world you have depicted outside the mirror, speaks to me of how you may view it. Cracked, broken and jumbled. There are patterns that can be distinguished, but because of the discontinuity, these patterns don't always make sense or add up. The outside world is also desaturated, lacking the colors and tones of something that's living. This I feel is due to you often times only being able to see a shadow of the reality, through a foggy and opaque glass that is your prison.
On that star rating thing, I really felt compelled to give you five stars across the board. Trust me when I say that this is from no feeling of sorrow or pity for you. (Not that I have'nt been touched by your story, it pretty much brought me to tears) But because this piece truly demonstrates all those qualities to fine degree.
I have a personal motto I try and follow when it comes to art, "The more one has to explain about a work, the less effective that work is." I feel your piece here may be a little bit of an exception. On the one side, I feel anyone viewing this without the benefit of knowing your story would come to understand the basic elements of what you have depicted here. But coupled with your story, this work has impacted me more strongly than just about anything I've ever seen or read.
It's is said that some of the most powerful art comes from deep within the emotion of the artist, and I think this is an excellent case for that idea.
Thank you once again for sharing this, and so much of your personal story. I wish you the best in all that you dream for.
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