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Published: 2007-06-24 14:56:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 3096; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 11
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Approx 8 X 10 inches Dr. Ph. Martin's ink on Bristol boardI once entered an airbrushing contest where the subject matter was to be a tragic event. Everyone naturally painted 9/11 and the twin towers, but I painted the body of an apparently young and once healthy girl on a morgue gurney.
Her proportions are slightly off to lend the notion that she died of some sort of trauma, but the fact that she's undergone an autopsy suggests that the cause of death wasn't immediately apparent.
Yes, I know the cut on the chest is upside-down, but I took artistic license in order to preserve the look of her breasts. I'll admit this is a disturbing painting, but then again, what could be more disturbing than the life of a once vibrant, beautiful young lady cut short? This is a tragedy that happens with much more frequency than a major terrorist attack, and is therefore all the more terrifying to me.
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congratulations. i am disturbed. btw this woman needs to get rid of those tan lines and get a wax. lol .. so why did you put the autopsy cuts backwards?
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Thanks for the ultimate compliment.
I gave her tan lines because you can't be a beach bunny and NOT have them, at least not without a police record for public indecency. As for the wax job, maybe she was just too busy the week before she died.
I put the autopsy cuts in backwards because I didn't want to cut through her prodigious breasts.
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oh I see I actually thought it was a warning about the dangerous of sun bathing.
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Heheh, if she weren't dead, she'd look soooo healthy . . .
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This is a very emotive piece. I really like the mystery surrounding it. Visually all you can tell is that she possesses no more life (I like how she's sunken in, kind of like the life has been sucked out of her. Your work always really challenges me.
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I'm glad to have a perceptive friend like you commenting on my work - I'm most often just thought of as "weird."
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yanno..I rather like how you never indulge in gratuitous morbidity..I hope I didnt just unvent a word.
I have on many occasions used gore for the purpose of comparing physical trauma to emotional....I like how what you have made is depicting an event....tragic but an a possible event.
And it makes the mind wonder how she got there.
I'm sorry...my thoughts are all mixed up.
Your work does make me miss how I used to paint...but it was scaring my family...
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Thanks, and I think morbidity is a valid word. And thank you for picking up on the mystery behind how such an obviously young girl GOT on a morgue gurney. There is a story behind every death in this world and (I feel) they are particularly tragic when the individual is young. As they've said, "all roads lead to Rome," and of all the horrible things that can happen to us, death is eventually the final result.
My family is constantly given things like this to think about and I honestly hope that instead of scaring them, I make them think very deeply about how precarious life really is.
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Well...my children are 5 and 7...
I dont know the saying "all roads lead to Rome" ...English isn't actually my first language...not that I'm all that proficient at Spanish anymore...been here for....hmmm...33 years.
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Eres Mexicana? Yo soy parte Mexicano, parte EspaΓ±ol y parte Indio cabron!
Where did you move from?
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Chicana...I had one Mexican Grandparent on each side....I lived with my Maternal Grandparents in Oaxaca from age 18 months to age 6.
My girls are 3/4 mexican.
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Cool! Ya sabia que usted tienia el sangre Latino! We have similar angst.
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awsome!! i like it how u decided to do somthing differnt then follow every one else like a sheep
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Heheh, no matter what the locale a landscape is a landscape - and no matter whether you're painting flowers or Indian pottery, a still-life is a still-life. I kind of like to stretch my wings. 
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Wow, I don't know what to say. It's kind of disturbing but I really like it, especially your idea. She's dead, but her face is like she was still alive. You scared me.
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It is a scary subject, but please remember that I painted her as the subject of a tragedy! I'm very much a pacifist and would never hurt anyone. It's a horrible fact of life (and death) that young people die on a daily basis, and that is a tragedy that should be scary.
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your works are unlike any ive seen. CRAZY GEWD yo
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Thanks, and really nice avatar!
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I like it and I really like the take on the contest idea you took. That makes it a more personal tragedy. I have thought about buying some of that ink to dip my brushes in to paint with. Are they vibrant and how well does bristol accept them?
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Bristol seems to love them, of course, I'm using an airbrush to apply them. I also used them on my painting, "The Veteran." The lit part of the cigarette in that one was done with Dr. Martin's calligraphy paint and it really jumped off the page.
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I like it quite a bit. It really makes you think about the world today...you are very right about it happening way more often than a terrorist attack- however, that one person isn't going to impact the whole world as say 911 did...which is actually kind of sad.
In the end though- another great piece!
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Thanks for your kind words. You're right about the impact of a single, young girl's death, but it will certainly affect her family more personally than 9/11 did.
The terrorists attack on 9/11, while truly horrible and catastrophic, wasn't quite as tragically personal to most Americans. I had hoped to bring home the fact that personal tragedy occurs on a daily basis and actually touches more people, more frequently than does the death of 3,000 Americans in an attack that happened six years ago.
That's not taking anything away from the lives lost on 9/11, but the chance of a young relative dying in a violent car crash, an overdose, an assault or of a dibilitating disease is far more likely.
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Exactly. Unfortunate deaths happen every second of every day...yet an event such as 911 happens how often?
An attack like that is more known, yet not as personal...unless you knew someone that was taken with it. However, I knew someone(only 21 yrs old) who died in a car accident last summer when we were on vacation together- they were just trying to get back to the cabin so we could all have fun. Sad thing is, he used to be pretty troubled, went through a lot. He just cleaned up and got his life together, started to settle down, and then his car crashed.
That one event, was so more effecting then 911...I couldn't even compare the two.
Many people don't take the time to consider that.
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That's very sad about your friend. I hope this painting makes people think about death often enough to keep them alert and careful.
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Well thank you, that means a lot!
I hope so too...
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Your paintings always make me think. That's real art. The way you painted her is really outstanding and your artworks always SAY something important. Well, I must admit that this one scares me but on the other hand makes me think of life vs. death, how close they are to each other. Just a thin line between them.
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You're right, and I hope it makes everyone think and be grateful for every single day. There is just a thin line between life and death, and sometimes young people cross that line never to come back.
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Many times I was close to crossing the line. Way too many...
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Don't ever cross that line willingly! I've come close myself quite a few times, but each time I got a new respect for life and living. Just remember how many people here at DA would suffer if you did "cross the line."
I don't even want to hear about that until you're old and your paintings are in galleries all over the world. Maybe when we meet in heaven someday you'll let me stroke your hair.
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Don't worry, I've grown up
Sweetie, I don't think my works will be shown anywhere except DA but that doesn't worry me. I found my way to express myself. This is important.
And I don't really believe in heaven, god etc. but if there is a place where we all can meet someday... yeah. I'll think about it
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Heheh, I didn't want to offend you, but I'm not too sure I believe in heaven either - I've been a devout Agnostic since I grew up. I think your work is fabulous and I think someone with your talent and determination will eventually catch some good exposure.
Expressing yourself, especially when you have talent, is very important, and I hope you always have the freedom to do so.
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I just don't know what to say 
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Very disturbing, tragic. The brusing look along the stiching line is good, I like the way you shaded everything.
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Thanks, there are a few mistakes here and there (as I explained to another friend, this was initially a sketch in pen that "went well" so I ended up airbrushing it), but I think the overall feeling was there. The bruising was airbrushed in after the sketch.
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It's scary. Very scary. But scary in an original kind of way.
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Thanks, and I couldn't help but think that you could have rendered the shiny, metallic surface of the gurney much better (not to mention the reflection of her body on the gurney).
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All the good it's gonna do me when I do an autopsy. Thank you!
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You always do art that give a very strong message across to the audience and you're special that way. I watched and read a lot of crime stories(coz of interest) and I kept staring at this image. I'm not sure why though.
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Thanks for your kind comments. I always try to make my work socially relevant, I'm just glad to run into someone who appreciates that.
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You're welcome. Like what we've talked about before, there're many people who love doing gory/violent art but just because they think it's cool. Yours are different because they carry very important messages and there are purpose in them.
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Thanks again, there are enough scary things in this world without creating monsters.
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The way a web site such as this displays art can help to drive a message home. At first glance at the thumbnail image , I thought "hot, young, tanned, naked, vibrant...etc...and immediately after clicking on it, her life was snuffed out, and it became instantly disturbing.
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Thanks, it is a disturbing image, but I worked for nearly nine years in a hospital emergency room and have first hand knowledge of the ways young life can be extinguished. Did you catch the tile floor and the floor drain? Easy mop up.
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This painting is quite disturbing, yet, death is part of life and therefore very relavant.
I used to watch this show on TLC called 'tales from the morgue', where they showed autopsies and crime scenes and dead bodies being picked up by the coroner's office. The subject of death is so tabboo in this society, it makes it quite fascinating and morbidly attractive.
Nice boobs, by the way...
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Heheh, I once saw a cartoon (I think it was National Lampoon) of a cop putting handcuffs on the ankles of a good looking corpse because the mortician looked a little too pleased that she had arrived. 
Death is very much a taboo in this country, and it's odd that you should say that, I'm having a comment/conversation with erinlee (another Deviant) about just that subject.
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And I am having a conversation with jlof about religion and death, right now, too. Quite a thread happening here...
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Can you point the way to that thread? I'd like to jump in as well.
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