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Wonderland Flowers, Wonderland Tears IV

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This was made for the :iconrising-artists: Modern Art Prompt Challenge.  Or, i should say, this version of the piece, as i did do several other versions.  But this one i made for the Challenge.

Sometimes our tears are a wonderland of flowers.  I sometimes wish i could drown in my tears, after being forced not to cry by my parents and society coz i looked like a boy, and still struggling to get that ability all the way back, i long for the abandon of my childhood, to just cry and cry, to let all that emotion out.  One of the great crimes we foist on our children is telling them not to cry - it's worse for "boys," and it's terrible for trans girls, but we even do it to the lil cis girls.  Crying with abandon allows us to express our emotions in a primal way, it allows us to vent our feelings, it cleans our bodies and souls from within.  After crying like that, you feel better, not worse - what makes you feel worse is holding all those feelings in - what makes you feel worse is plastering a tight, wrinkled, smile on your face that everyone knows is false.  A smile that is harming you.  A smile that, really, is insane by any reasonable measure - when you're sad, you cry, when you're in grief, you cry, when you're happy you smile.  Smiling when you're sad or grieving is scary and insane.  Go to Wonderland, my dear, with that smile plastered over your tear filled heart, go to Wonderland and learn what happens to people who stuff their feelings into a rabbit hole, into a Mad Hat. 

I would gladly drown myself in tears, if they would flow whenever i needed that release.  

These all started as the same two photographs of pretty lil purple flowers.  I manipulated them, and mixed them together, using different filters.  Once i got a version i liked, i just kept manipulating that version in diff ways, sometimes adding the flowers back in.  In this version i softened everything with a glass filter.  I like the soothing effect, it's pretty.

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Wonderland Flowers, Wonderland Tears by KittenDiotima    Wonderland Flowers, Wonderland Tears II by KittenDiotima      Wonderland Flowers, Wonderland Tears III by KittenDiotima
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