Page 14 - Demo

Eve was great at just setting up evocative poses straight out of her own imagination. So when she did the one above (raw photo), it quickly suggested to me what it would become. Its a bit like that famous painting%u2014%u201dThe Scream%u201d by the Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch 1893, you know%u2014the one with the distorted character screaming insanely on the bridge. Have you experienced madness, grief, insufferable loss? If so, you will be able to connect to this image quite easily. Most people think physical pain is the worst kind, but it isn%u2019t: mental pain is! In the final image, the literal shattering of Eve represents her mental state. We do not know what has brought on this sudden, terrible moment of despair and pain. We only see the result of what she is feeling inside because I have moved the abstract into the physical external world. But some of us have felt like how she looks, haven%u2019t we? Me? I suffer terrible bouts of depression, or at least%u2014I did do. I now take a pill which seems to prevent it from happening. And what a stupid, impotent word to describe an illness which at its worse can lead to total incapacity, and at its least%u2014months of loneliness and despair, isolated from the rest of humanity. It%u2019s like losing your soul. And what about schizophrenia? What a bummer to be born with the genes which haunt you with that one for the rest of your life. My heart goes out to them. Lost someone you love totally? Grief! It%u2019s a physical pain which gnaws at you inside, emptying your flesh of life and meaning, and leaving behind this gigantic empty space, a gulf which takes years for your body to pull a few stretched shards of skin across. The little sequence of images above, demonstrate the various stages in the creation of this final image.