I'd like to dedicate this as a late birthday present for *gingerkellystudio.
Once again, Happy Birthday, Dear!


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It may seem to be a bit dark, the subject and emotions even unnecessarily tragic. You may wonder why the woman wears a blindfold while roving at night in a beautiful forest.
Actually I'm really curious what your interpretations of this work are and would truly appreciate if you could tell me what were your first thoughts when you saw it

And... (as usually ) I was trying to smuggle some symbolic meaning to this one (blah... you know... path, forest, light/night...).


At times it happens so that sorrow, fear, regret, self-destructive and depressive thoughts make us wear such a blindfold, make us blind to the beauty around us, take away joy and will to live. At times we feel as if we were wandering through the dark forest, alone, vulnerable to harm, defenceless.
Such a state can make one's life truly miserable, it may become the source of diseases, depressions, neurosis, in some extreme cases (but these days maybe I shouldn't call it uncommon?) it can lead to suicide.

We're walking this path of our life, each day just another nightmare, finding nothing more but night and darkness around us.

However we still carry on. Either because we can't do anything to help ourselves, just waiting passively for either a miracle or tragedy to come or... because, after all, there is still something hidden deeply in our hearts that can help us survive even the darkest days. Hope. Hope for getting out of the misery, of starting a new life, of finding someone who will make it worth living, for finding new passions and friends that would change it, bring you back happiness, laughter.
Maybe it's a bit banal, but the most obvious truths are always that simple and perhaps that's why we ignore and underrate them.

But what I was trying to say with this one is that one can't give up.

So I'd like to wish you... May you always believe that there is a new day to come. May you always believe that there is still some light, maybe you're even holding it in your own hands, following it intuitively?
And one last thing... As I've always appreciated nature... Just at times look around and see all of the beauty surrounding you. Maybe you'll also come to think that even if the whole life sucks, it's still worth living for its beauty, to see sunrises, sunsets and starry nights, to see lush plants and flowers, to appreciate vivid colours around you. They're always somewhere around us, unnoticed, still waiting to be discovered.
Again something commonplace... but somehow I'd like to write it here as once I was undergoing such a harsh period...
I would like to wish you to find peace and happiness in your life

I hope that it all hasn't sounded like a sermon or something of this kind And that you've survived the banality behind all these words... Yet still... as my friend says "express and do not repress yourself "

Thank you very much, all of my watchers, for following my works and (even more, lol ) for reading up till now


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And last but not least... what pushed me to create it the way it is, was one of Epica's songs "Chasing the dragon" and as the lyric goes:

Nothing will be forever gone
Memories will stay and find their way
What goes around will come around
Don't deny your fears
So let them go and fade into light
Give up the fight here

Let my eyes take in
The beauty that's here
That's left on this earth
My ears long to hear
A melody

Give me sight



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Credits
Model : *mizzd-stock
Part of the sky+plants: *Goblin-stock
Moon + some plants: *nathie [link]
Path, pond, forest: my own resources (some available here: ~fenne-stock)
Glass for the lantern: ~Pieceofmestock [link]
Some plants (foreground): *MaureenOlder
White flowers: ~NaviStock
Rocks + partially the path: ~velourya-stock
Ferns: ~midnightstouchSTOCK
Fireflies: *redheadstock
Wood texture: ~Sirius-sdz [link]

+some elements painted


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