Weird symbolic artpiece...enjoy!

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Post by digitaldali // Nov 9, 2007, 5:40pm

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Just a weird piece I did regarding suicide. No matter how lifeless someone may seem (a dead tree trunk) they shelter some divine beauty that is dependant on them (flowers sheltered from the cold, growing inside). Just wanted to share it! I'm not submitting it...it's about 75% matte painting and compositing.

Post by Jack Edwards // Nov 9, 2007, 7:20pm

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Beautiful work DigitalDali!


It's both depressing, threatening, and uplifting all at the same time. :banana:

Post by butterpaw // Nov 9, 2007, 7:39pm

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It's beautiful, digitaldali ^_^

Post by blakeo // Nov 10, 2007, 4:00am

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Fantastic piece digitaldali. I enjoy all your work...


Just out of curiosity, which parts are the 25% trueSpace? Of course, you can keep us wondering if you like... :)


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Post by splinters // Nov 10, 2007, 5:02am

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Lovely work Mr Dali...:D

Post by digitaldali // Nov 10, 2007, 5:22pm

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Thank you all VERY much!:)the 25 percent is the ground and most of the tree stump. I did texture touch-ups on the snowy ground and some "stump" overlays to the top of the stump. That was really all the 3d I needed for the piece. The rest is a series of overlapped stock-free photos and some PS-created snow. Oh yeah, and some matte painting for "mood."

Post by SteveBe // Nov 10, 2007, 6:09pm

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Thanks digitaldali:) For me, very warm and comforting...
the image, not the theam.

Post by Steinie // Nov 11, 2007, 4:04am

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Well before you gave your "Artist" explanation that is not how I had interpreted this nice piece. (although I was close)
I see nothing in this piece suggesting suicide. I see a very old and ragged vulture finding his brief moment of Tranquility while he is being hovered by a flock of Vultures. The very stock he himself came from. The title suggested R and R which every living thing needs even if it his last.

Hey! I'm being escorted out of the Art Show, call my Lawyer!

Post by 3dfrog // Nov 11, 2007, 8:21am

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Great piece. It's interesting to hear the artists theme of this. I would have never guessed that is what inspired it. I see an old bird perched up still holding his pride. I did a sculpture like that a long time ago. It was a ragged kind of abstract bird standing proud, when some little kid saw it at an art show she pointed at it and screamed "eeewwwwww". lol. that made my day.

Post by digitaldali // Nov 11, 2007, 10:15am

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Those are awesome replies, thank you:D I think it's actually better when I hear someone elses view on what it means to them (and it's something I would never have thought of). Oh yeah, I've had some kids AND adults point at my art and go "Ewwww!" At least it's evoking something:D

Post by butterpaw // Nov 11, 2007, 3:19pm

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Curiously, I interpreted this rather differently, and viewed the stump as remaining - still have a raison d'etre. A resting place for the vulture, whose life is often an intense struggle... yet the interpretations of others also make sense to me.... possibly that's because I made allusion to a tree in a poem The Pepper Tree (http://butterpaw.deviantart.com/art/The-Pepper-Tree-34808989) many years ago, with a similar theme..

A poet with whom I was closely associated told me that he learned surprising things about his own poems from the reactions and interpretations of others, and while he had not been aware of these things previously, immediately saw that yes, their interpretations were also valid.. I think this applies to paintings and other graphic art as well..

In any case your painting is beautiful and hopeful and somber... ^_^

Post by digitaldali // Nov 12, 2007, 5:20am

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That's beautiful, thank you butterpaw:) I've always felt that art is an extension of nature (as are we:D). And the meaning that people bring with them is the most important meaning a piece can hold. Very nice!

Post by jamesmc // Nov 13, 2007, 10:23am

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"Hope" is the back lighting of our destiny.


As you wonderfully displayed in your artwork.

Post by frootee // Nov 13, 2007, 2:48pm

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Well for me, this piece reminds me of all the walks I took with my black laborador retriever in the woods after school each day in the fall and early winter all those years ago. Through the woods, then a clearing. It was always very quiet around that time of day. No cars. Just the rustle of paws and feet, the snapping of twigs, and the occasional flutter of little birds zipping around to get settled in for the night.

Post by W!ZARD // Nov 16, 2007, 1:31am

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Lovely work DD - it has a nice almost Zen feel to it - duality, life and death, life in death, death in life.


Vultures are fascinating creatures from a symbolic perspective - their life depends on others deaths yet their wings lift them higher towards (the individuals preferred choice of) higher spiritual realms. The tree also reaches for the heavens while alive and even in death and decay it still contributes to the ascension of spirit.


An evocative and moving piece....

Post by digitaldali // Nov 16, 2007, 4:38am

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That's a wonderful assessment, W!ZARD! Thank you so much for your input. That's what I had in mind when I made it...I'm so glad everyone is looking deeper than the surface of the piece. All of you are true artists!
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