"DESOLATION"
^ NEXT | LAST April 2007

I did this for my brother. He's taking a class on the American graphic novel and needed illustrations for a prompt.

He wants to belong. He's spent his whole life apart from everything else, disconnected from meaning. But now, he resolves, that will change. I'll make myself belong. I will be a part of life, and life will be a part of me! And then, the dreams come. The world falls apart a bit, things make less and less sense… until he awakens again. He is confused and disoriented, but he's still alive and determined. And then another night, another dream. Storms of color, chords of sound, a tempest of reality. He is awake again, but cannot move. More sleep, more delirium. Soon, he cannot tell the difference between awake and asleep. Reality and madness flow from one to the other, and chaos breaks him open. What good is awake, when all he knows is lights and sounds without order, without reason? What can save him from despair if he believes that he is finally a part of what he needs?

[ink | 6 x 8 inches]

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