Darkest
249 creative works found
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Sometime at times of great darkness it can seem as if something is there, lurking, feeding off our despair and anguish.
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All art and pictures, models and photoshop by Anna Cuypers / Image copyright © 2007, annacuypers. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. / ” ... and the wild are strong and the strong are the darkest ones / and you’re the darkest one… “ / Tragically Hip.
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20×16” oil painting and ink on canvas. Inspired by Year Zero by NIN, specifically the track “In This Twilight.” This is my Resistance Fighter (a character I invented) and a dark self-portrait. The role we have in our planet’s destruction and ultimate demise is larger than we think. we’re all underground sometimes. ART IS RESISTANCE! Original painting not for sale. Lyrics to In This Twilight: watch the sun, / as it crawls across a final time / and it feels like, / like it was a friend. / it is watching us, / and the world we set on fire / do you wonder, / if it feels the same? and the sky is filled with light / can you see it? / all the black is really white / if you believe it / as your time is running out / let me take away your doubt / you can find a better a place / in this twilight from dust to dust, / ashes in your hair remind me / what it feels like / and I won’t feel again / night descends / could I have been a better person / if I could only do it all again and the sky is filled with light / can you see it? / all the black is really white / if you believe it / and the longing that you feel / you know none of this is real / you will find a better place / in this twilight
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9×6” lino print based on collage. the city kills us all inside.
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20×16” acrylic paints on canvas. abstract portrait
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24×36” anniversary painting/sculpture with acrylic paints, embroidery floss, dried flowers, wire, and canvas.
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20×24” oil painting on canvas Part of NIN Year Zero inspired series, and is inspired by the instrumetal track of the same title. city and apocalypse. the air we breathe…water we drink…there is no hope and only ourselves to blame. THINK FOR YOURSELF, QUESTION AUTHORITY! draw your OWN conclusions about our government!
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Pencil and pastel portrait of Robert Smith of The Cure. Drawn in 1990 so it’s a bit tattered ;)
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Roll on Mad Bob / Your job is almost done. / Those who could have stopped you, did nothing. / Those who couldn’t, but tried…died. / What will they write on your gravestone, Bob? / What will they write on ours? I copied the following report from a South African online newspaper / IOL / on 21 April 08 By Peta Thornycroft Harare – Details of a widespread brutal campaign by the military to keep President Robert Mugabe in power have been revealed to The Sunday Independent. Central to the plot are hundreds of “command centres”, led by war veterans and youths in police uniform, which are being established across Zimbabwe to wage a national terror campaign. Zimbabwe’s top military authority, the Joint Operational Command, made up of service chiefs, has established a chain of command to ensure that Mugabe and Zanu-PF remain in office even though they both lost the elections three weeks ago. The command centres are waging a campaign of intimidation, violence and ballot rigging. In this way, the regime plans to guarantee victory for Mugabe in a second round of presidential elections. The network will probably not cover the cities, all strongholds of Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader. Instead, they will be concentrated in the rural areas where 70 percent of Zimbabweans live. Three weeks after the poll’s first round, no official results have been announced, but the regime has publicly acknowledged that Mugabe fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a run-off. A senior army officer and a police chief described the president’s re-election plan to The Sunday Independent. They attended a meeting in a rural province on Monday morning. It included traditional chiefs and local politicians and was addressed by two senior members of Mugabe’s regime. They said each command centre would consist of three police officers, a soldier and a war veteran who would be in charge. They would dispatch militias, comprising war veterans and members of the Zanu-PF’s youth wing, to assault and torture known opposition supporters. They would also control the local police to ensure that the militias were immune from arrest. The generals have called on the four security services – army, police, intelligence and prisons – to ensure that people are terrorised into voting for Mugabe in the expected re-run of the presidential poll. The results of that poll have still not been released, arousing suspicions of vote-rigging and provoking growing domestic and international pressure on Zimbabwe’s authorities. The victor has to win 50 percent plus one vote of the votes cast or face a re-run. The result, when it is finally announced, cannot be recounted, according to the Electoral Act. The Sunday Independent has heard evidence that the announcement of the results has been postponed deliberately to allow Mugabe’s government to falsify votes to close the gap between him and Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai is widely believed to have won the election with about 49 to 51 percent of the vote, against Mugabe’s 42 or 43 percent. Independent candidate Simba Makoni won the rest. Mugabe’s strategy appears to be to close the gap so that his rigged victory in the expected run-off election will be more credible. Apart from doctoring the presidential votes, Mugabe’s officials have also needed the delay to replace votes cast for MDC candidates in the parliamentary poll on the same day to try to ensure that the rigging cannot not be detected, according to sources. All the results for the four elections – parliamentary, senate, local government and presidential – that took place on March 29 were posted outside more than 8 000 polling stations by midnight April 1. Zanu-PF narrowly lost its parliamentary majority to the MDC and the presidential results had to be transferred to Harare for collation. Generals who report directly to the Joint Operational Command have explained in a series of closed meetings how people will be terrorised and beaten into voting for Mugabe in a re-run. The details released by our two informants were from one of the planning sessions. They rushed to Harare from a remote rural area this week to reveal the plan. They disclosed the names, ranks and even the cellphone numbers of those people from one province who have been ordered to join the campaign. Wilfred Mhanda, one of Mugabe’s senior commanders from the 1970s war against white Rhodesia, said yesterday: “The report you have shown me is true. What is explained in the report is typical of what is already happening in various parts of the country, and those who know Zanu-PF as I do will not be surprised. What worries me is there seems to be no way out of where we are going.” The scores of names in the report – several familiar to many Zimbabweans who have been victimised for their political beliefs – and the province where the meeting took place cannot be identified to protect the identity of the two men. A senior politician told security personnel at one provincial meeting: “You have to defend the revolution. If you don’t and [it] is sold through the ballot, we will go back to the bush and fight. Is that what you want? I don’t think so.” Select groups have been told how victory for Mugabe will be achieved in the run-off and in the recount of 23 constituencies, which the partisan Zimbabwe Election Commission began on Saturday. State media said the results on the recount were expected in a few days. According to reliable sources, sealed ballot boxes have been opened and new seals have been forged. Votes for the MDC have been taken out and replaced by votes for Zanu-PF. It has been done so carefully that no one will be able to detect the fraud – the bogus votes have the same numbers as those issued to voters on polling day and the number of votes in each box has been carefully reproduced. Also new pale-blue forms, V11, which were posted outside polling stations with results of the four elections, have been recreated with forged signatures of the polling agents and different tallies, favouring both Zanu-PF in the parliamentary contest and Mugabe in the presidential poll. Chiara Carter reports that the campaign of terror was verified yesterday in a report by the Human Rights Watch organisation, which said Zanu-PF was using a network of informal detention centres to beat, torture and intimidate opposition activists and ordinary Zimbabweans. A statement issued on Saturday provided a chilling account of systematic intimidation and violence, including the abduction and savage beating of opposition supporters in several areas. In the past two days, researchers interviewed more than 30 people who had been tortured and, because of it, sustained serious injuries, including broken limbs. Human Rights Watch, a respected non-governmental group that monitors human rights across the globe, called on the African Union to step in immediately to address the crisis and protect civilians. The organisation said its researchers had heard from victims and eyewitnesses that, in the wake of last month’s election, Zanu-PF had set up detention centres in the opposition constituencies of Mutoko North, Mutoko South and Mudzi in the province of Mashonaland East, and in Bikita West in Masvingo. Opposition supporters were being tortured at these camps. The organisation said Zanu-PF officials were calling the crackdown Operation Makavhoterapapi (“Where did you put your cross?”). The aim appeared to be twofold: to punish people for having voted for the MDC, and to intimidate them to vote for Zanu-PF in the event of a presidential run-off. One victim told Human Rights Watch: “They told me, ‘next time you will vote wisely; now you know what we can do’.” – Foreign Service
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11×15” watercolor painting (Winsor & Newton Cotman and Loew-Cornell Metallics on Strathmore CP 300 series paper). it means different things to different people, but many see bloodletting.
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Death at home cleaning his birdcage. He’s only human, you know ;) 9×12”, canson 140 lb. cold press paper. watercolors and ink. Original for sale $99.00
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Oil Pastel and Acrylic On Wood Concept: This is one of the many in Ophelia’s Love Encounters Series, it’s her experience of many facets of this wonderful thing called LOVE.. This is what she has to say about love today : “Love is lighting up somebody else’s darkest moments, bringing hope when all seems lost.” / You can view and buy my other “Love Is Lighting Up Somebody’s Else’s Darkest Moments” at my Zazzle Gallery: /
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Another retro feel tee with a bit of irony and humour to convey my message. Oh, and just for sjem to confirm i do indeed have a stealth fetish.
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Thick fog sleeping in the gullys…waiting to be awakened by the mornings sun…........... DebsPhotos
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Acrylic on canvas
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Of my blood. Done the other night.I hope you all enjoy.All credits over here.http://missy-g.deviantart.com/
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www.shadowofangel.dormiensvigila.com
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Dedicated to my son… / *~ / Lyrics by Deb Talan the last few golden leaves / are clinging tightly / to their branches / like they don’t want to let go / like they don’t trust / what they don’t know / what they don’t know / ‘cause it’s not quite winter / and it’s not quite fall / and even though it’s been a year / i cannot pass you by / not at all / i tell myself enough / my heart can’t feel the reason / why must we into the darkest season / it’s cold getting colder / i dreamt last night of being older / i looked in the mirror / there was so much grey / if i saw you tomorrow / what would i say / what could you say / it’s not quite winter / and it’s not quite fall / and even though it’s been a year / i cannot pass you by not at all / i tell myself enough / my heart can’t feel the reason / why must we into the darkest season / the darkest season / it’s not that i’m not thankful or grateful / for what we’ve grown / it’s not that / i’m not living my life alright / on my own / i just feel the empty space / i just feel the wind blow through / i just thought in any case / that i’d always know you / it’s not quite winter / and it’s not quite fall / and even though it’s been a year / i cannot pass you by / not at all / i tell myself enough / my heart can’t feel the reason / why must we into the darkest season…
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one last leaf / one who still remains… you / and i / crying this dark autumn night . beautiful selkie’s the darkest season selkie ... / you are so beautiful and talented… thank you~ . o5.11.2oo9 / acrylic on canvas / 18” x 36” .
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Emotions…......there are so many possibilities to express our feelings mimically! This is the dark dispair! / Shown on a digital painting self portrait. / A No One on a scale from “deeply depressed” to “happy as I can be”....... / This is meant to be my entry to the “Happy Challenge”. In the end there is always a ray of hope…....shining through these church windows…... ____ / To view the positive counterpoint, have a look at “Even In Those Impish Days” /
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Room of silence,inside the Dom in Bremen(downstairs).It is very dark down there and I made the photo handheld 1/15 sec at ISO 6400. / Camera used was 5D MARK II. / Manipulated with texture,curves,dodge and burn.
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another version – one I like better – from my earlier, “Pieta”. ;-) commissioned work
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