My Purgatory
I made this trying to make sense of a nightmare that has haunted me for many years. I have decided this is My Personal Hell, as I wake in tears and am down for several days afterwards as a rule.
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dpennyor
oh vonne, such a bad nightmare to have continuously. so terrible for you!!! awesome work here recreating it. you have a good day my dear friend.
John Edwards
Wonderful work with great atmosphere
Lois Bryan
Vonne … a magnificent image … we should try to open it up and understand it sometime. Or … better yet … with any luck the completion of this magnificent creation could signal your release???? Bless your heart … bad dreams can indeed be shattering … but oh my heavens … what a way to USE them!!!! This is an extraordinary image … the emotion in it is, I’m sure, shared by us all at times!!!!!!!!! You are SUCH a talent!!!!! A pleasure and a joy to know you!!!!!!!!!
Rachel McKinnie
Wow…
Lucindawind
OUTSTANDING work !!!!
Von McKnelly
Putting your dreams in a visual form as you have may help to understand why it has such an effect on you.
I think it’s an awesome artwork Vonne…I can see the dreaminess/nightmarish of it.
raymondo
Sometimes that is just how I feel !!! Vonne, this is Fantastic. xx
Antanas
Great work, well done
Per E. Gunnarsen
Superb work, the atmosphere, mist and nightmare feeling…..everything!
Heather Rivet...
wow outstanding
Deborah Parkin
this is stunning Vonne – i love how you feel so isolated – really haunting and really beautiful.
Sande Elkins
An amazing and powerful image, Vonne!!
Jan Piller
I agree – this very powerful Vonne! Nice work! Very frightening and lonely but good work!
DALE CRUM
GREAT CREATION V! The work helps us all to better cast our hauntings—-out and away luv.
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algo
Quite wonderful Vonne. Stunning application and vision…for you older folk out there seems akin to a Killing Joke album cover!
Chuck Uebele
Very well done. It’s good to get nighmares out like this. Sometimes this helps them go away.
Denis Molodkin
Outstanding work! very well done!
velveteagle
Vonne… You are so awsome.. I have been a power dreamer since I reached puberty. I looked at your image… That has so much power.. I think its your best work really.. I want you to try to learn to fly in your dreams.. It takes time.. Don’t fear the power lines or trees when you fly.. We as humans can be our own worst enemy. You own nothing in this world.. We live here to compare sweet to sour pain to pleasure.. How could you explain how an orange tastes to one who has never taken fruit ? You have nothing to fear dear Vonne because everything you are is eternal.. Some day I will explain how I know this.. When you are ready..
Chuck
giovanni
love this… :)
giovanni
frightening actually…well done
Ann Garrett
Brilliant
Holly Kempe
Excellent work Vonne!!!
(the raven has the way – fly above…. :))
RavenSoul
Thanks so much everyone for kind thoughts and wishes xx Vonne
DavidMark
Sorry to hear about your recurring nightmare Vonne… be strong and positive so it can’t feed on your sadness. You have done a wonderful job with this image… it’s a remarkable work. Take care =)
Paul Vanzella
wild image – just love the scale and sense of imbalance!
HenkStolk
great work of Art…
the little child on the edge.. striking.. superb.
The more I watch it the better it gets..
Really love it
t1nyskert
once again brilliant and suspenseful
bev langby
Art has a price like all things and the fact that u have now painted a picture of this nightmare should be somewhat liberating especially if u embrace it as a part of u and your art and your journey in life…............look back on that child and know she is a survivor she is u
hugs bev
Helene Kippert
Haunting image vonne – great work!
Ravenor
Awesome!!. must have been some dream that Vonne!
rjcolby
Good idea to bring the nightmare into the daylight where it cannot thrive.
Impressive on several levels.
paul romanowski
VERY SCARY…
Tracey Mac
Amazing image…..scary nightmare….love how you can illustrate your dreams though….superb…
RavenSoul
Thanks so much for your understanding. Im so glad everyone liked this it helped tremendously bringing it to life. xx Vonne
RosaCobos
Fog is giving us the drama of insecurity.
Yes… it is water..
but cannot swimm nor dive into it.
It is air..
but is does not sustain us if we fall..
It is light but does not get us see the pathway, nor our own reflection.
It is homely… intimate but persisting it puts us in extreme isolation.
It is quiet… but so quiet that our own heartbeating becomes strange to us.
So i understand your fears…. warmth will delete it… a light… the smaler.. will give you sight.
Rosa (Precious and enigmatic)
charlena
Wow vonne this is riveting, fantastic, disturbing, moody and awesome you rock.
RavenSoul replied
Thanks so much sweet girl!
Jacky
It’s haunting and very beautiful !!:)
RavenSoul replied
Thank you Jacky
A90Six
Dear Vonne, sorry about the nightmares, but what a fantastic image. Seen in the light of day it’s far from scary. great work!
:) Tony.
RavenSoul replied
Thanks Tony xx
ruxique
Ugly nightmare… but this work is gorgeous!
RavenSoul replied
Thank you hon = ) Making it come to life seems to help
Hal Smith
I like this best, in fact I relly think this is just so perfect.
Great picture
RavenSoul replied
Me to Hal and thank you!
Rene Hales
I agree with others – very powerful.—Rene
RavenSoul replied
Thank you Rene!
brion
WHOA!!!!!!!!!! That is wild!!!!
RavenSoul replied
Thanks Brion
RebeccaT
Creating great art is the best therapy for bad dreams! – A truly moving image Vonne. Great work.
RavenSoul replied
Thanks Rebecca and yes It really is!
Rosemary Scott
WOW…. this is so haunting….... hope you can eventually make sense of your nightmares….
RavenSoul replied
Thanks Rosemary
Luc85
Vonne THIS IS JUST AMAZING !!!!
Love it ….fave :o)
Love the lighting, mist, composition ….everything!! Great work :o)
RavenSoul replied
Thank you so much sweetie xx
navybrat
bad nightmare…..awesome work!!
RavenSoul replied
Thanks so much Hon
JimFilmer
worth coming back to time and time again… so vast, so imposing..wonderfully createful
RavenSoul replied
Thank you Jim Glad you like it.
Cheryl Dunning
wow…..thats quite the image..well done!
RavenSoul replied
Thank you Cheryl, glad you liked it
John Shortt-Smith
Love this
RavenSoul replied
Thanks John
Steve Chapple
Powerful and emotive, you are brave working through this!
“Every artist dips his brush into his soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
Henry Ward Beecher.
RavenSoul replied
Thanks Steve. Truer words were never spoken.
Caroline Evans...
interesting concept
MilanPhotograp...
This is brilliant, Vonne! Just how do you do it!
Milan
RavenSoul replied
Lots of Layers, Textures and pictures = ) Thanks so much I am glad you liked it
frankc
Fabulous stuff … I feel the despair!
RavenSoul replied
Thank you Frank, sorry if it made you sad. Something I had to work through via art = )
woof
GREAT IMAGE!!!! VERY POWERFUL!!!
RavenSoul replied
Thank you! Sorry for the delay in responding
Earthmonster
Love this.
RavenSoul replied
Glad you liked it = )
Angel Warda
this is fab! i love everything about this!!!!
RavenSoul replied
Thank you! It was kinda hard to make… to convey the emotion but this is as good as it gets until I get better in PS = )
DragonFlyer
It’s a very powerful image – even beautiful in an overwhelming kind of way… I guess that part of the reason for that may be because it’s real? I’m impressed – and I hope to get as good at PS as you already are :)))
RavenSoul replied
You are too kind, thank you = )
Von McKnelly
Frightfully Delicious.
RavenSoul replied
Thanks Von!
Sally Omar
Oh, exceptionally amazing work!!!!!!!!! xoxoxooxoxxoox
RavenSoul replied
Thanks so much Sally! xxxxxx
MilanPhotograp...
Also it reminds me of Evanescence – Bring Me To Life video.
Milan
RavenSoul replied
I havent seen that I will have to watch = ) Hope that means its good = ) Has to I love their music! lol
Krisso
WOW!!!....
RavenSoul replied
Thank you kristian
Ric Alexander
Forgive me for not commenting on all your images i like, it would take too long. A great image, well done !
Wayne Cook
I am proud of you for taking something that given you so much pain and turning it into art and a statement. I saw so many comments here, of people who admired it, and support you through this connection. VERY well done!
RavenSoul replied
Thank you Wayne xxxx
hologram
agree with comments by Milan, very “Evanescence-Esq”, (thats a very positive comment by the way), a very profound image,
I love it.
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RavenSoul replied
Thank you!!
Shoaib .
wow .. i love that you follow inspiration in your work and ur always creative with it
:) smiles from me hugs to you
RavenSoul replied
Hugs back! and thank you = )
Laurie Search
It would be wonderful if doing this piece cured you of the nightmare…This is just amazing….
Lucindawind
stellar !!
Cynthia Lund T...
I hope you slayed your dragon.
We sure got to enjoy your efforts in doing so.
This is really hauntingly beautiful vonne…
walela
Very compelling!
Songwriter
Wow, Vonne, I hope that getting it out and on paper helps you to diminishe the effect it has next time. Or hopefully there will be no next time. Great work. :0) Song
hsien-ku
such an epic image – i bet the space feels immense in your nightmare! amazing work
Mabel Forsyth
woah! incredible
Scott d'Almeida
such wonderful image
Trish O'Brien
You are an astonishing artist. I do hope making this has released you from that dream….
RavenSoul replied
It did actually help me a tremendous amount! I have found the more I worked in art the less often I have nightmares. Very good therapy I think.
AsylumWitch
I don’t know how I missed this one Vonne! Omg…this has to be one of my faves from you. Wonderful dark piece. Outstanding!
RavenSoul replied
Thank you sweet girl working through some old demons = )
Angel Gold
Oh wow…Amazing work
RavenSoul replied
Thank you Angel xxxx
Ric Alexander
Congratulations!! This image has been featured in the Photo Manipulators !!! Group
RavenSoul replied
Oh wow! Thanks so much Ric!!
David Silsbury
Great image, very popular too, well done and congratulations on being featured.
RavenSoul replied
Thank you so much David!
F.A. Moore
Also Featured in Your Solo Exhibition <<Click to go!
Vonne, Congratulations on this work, an extended feature in your Solo Exhibition,
Monday – Sunday, October 26 – November 1, 2009!
Vonne’s Reception Gallery <<Click to go!
Elizabeth Bravo
Oooooooooo, I love this so much…....But I am sorry that it causes you distress. I totally relate to night mares, but they only have power if you give it to them.
I think your dreams are a huge part of your creative process…....they let you see depths of emotion that others will never be able to understand. I don’t think you could have such wonderful talent with out having that insight. I never think to show my dreams in images…..but wow…..that would be a whole new world of work. THIS IS SPECTACULAR!!