Casualties and Cruelty of Hope-up close

April Mansilla

Casualties and Cruelty of Hope-up close

details of my hope series

Hope can be so cruel ….you want and need …and want more to get better ….so you hope ….and it just seems so cruel the more you want the more you fall …hope dangles its self in front of you ….just out of reach at times ….and all the hurt the pain goes with us ….we walk only half alive…mouth closed beause words seem to just get us in trouble or beause no one could understand this death …loss of hope …

i put the pennies on my eyes with the date i was born but couldn’t handle putting and end date …thought it might be bad luck or something ..funny cuase i never believed in luck

I must add also placing the cross on my head was difficult ..as you can see my finger print is with it …..writting on the langer veiw of this work is a prayer from ash wednesday in latin where the prayer takes place

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Casualties and Cruelty of Hope-up close by April Mansilla
Casualties and Cruelty of Hope-up close by April Mansilla
  • navybrat

    navybrat

    true words!!! magnificent art!!

  • April Mansilla replied

    thank you :)!!!

  • JenniferB

    JenniferB

    Incredibly powerful work April!!!

  • April Mansilla replied

    thank you ….Jennifer ….much appreciated…i really love your book btw …really powerful!

  • Gili Orr

    Gili Orr

    OMG…

  • April Mansilla replied

    thanks Gili ….is it a good OMG?

  • helene ruiz

    helene ruiz

    yes….hmmm…hope…......
    well done april

  • April Mansilla replied

    thank you Helene ..so you know that hope huh:)

  • helene ruiz

    helene ruiz

    oh yes….too well….....

  • Damien Venditti

    Damien Venditti

    this one the most difficult to look at i think, maybe it the truth in the words

  • April Mansilla replied

    this one makes me sick to look at …...i understand…my kids love it though I think cuase they like the song steven the penny on the eye part :)

  • aglaia b

    aglaia b

    very emotive work april, so many statements made here on the one piece!
    that is excellent! ;-) xox

  • April Mansilla replied

    thank you Aglaia:) very appreciated!!!

  • HeatherTS

    HeatherTS

    good lord this is frighteningly beautiful! hope is a bitch, they even have a punk song by blood for blood called “bitch called hope”

  • April Mansilla replied

    thank you Heather:) yes she is a bitch that hope:)

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