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Never Sleep, Never Die

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Don’t give in to the pain
Though they’re screaming your name.
God knows what lies behind them.
Never sleep, never die.


[ Whisper – Evanescence ]


Again, more from my session with Massimo Caregnato on analogic support. Origin is still the main inspiration, as that shade of red reminds me of its front cover and the cemetery location is fitting.
Taken in Sant’Anna Cemetery, Trieste.

Photo: massimocare
Concept, model, styling, grooming: GothicNarcissus

Origin by GothicNarcissus Never Sleep, Never Die by GothicNarcissus I Rise To Meet My End by GothicNarcissus
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Date Taken
May 5, 2012, 11:53:05 PM
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:star::star::star::star::star-half: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star: Impact

Well what to say? The contast is simply splendid to behold. Red and Black are always god spectral opposites. The Tombstones add a rather macabre since to it. You could almost pass this off as a portrait of a ghost. The spirit being that of a young man resently deceased, and still at odds with his fate. He could be mourning the fact that he will never be able to continue in the things he used to do. Or as this thought has just struck my brain it could be the portrait of a young man at the grave of his lover. He is still mourning his or her death and as Edgar Allen Poe wrote "All the night tide I lie down at her side. My darling, my darling, my life and my bride, at her sepluchre there by the sea, at her tomb by the sounding sea." Also as I commented on Origin this could seem to have been done under a Lunar Eclipse or Blood Moon.

Quite beautiful really, in a sad sort of way.

As far as vision goes (yes I am using the stars) It is an excellent and unique concept of an idea that has been around since before man learned how to scratch drawings into cave walls. I think it is rather original if only for the fact that I haven't looked at this particular genre very much. Great technique, it centered but for this picture it works, especially since you have the trees in the distance to give it some depth and the other grave markers help lead the eye away from the model that is to say you. All in all very good. It has a very strong impact, death is a 'universal' fear. It is a fear that is not bound by borders or luangages. So this is not something that you have to have a translation dictionary to understand. So without further ado... Two thumbs way, way up.