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Acrylic on Canvas. Size 36" x 36" Completed in San Francisco, September 1994
Heroin is an insidious destroyer of souls. The first experience brings you pleasant dreams and euphoria. There's nothing like the soft warm waves of comfort and well being that surge through your body. Like long lost secret memories from a cool heavenly death. This world's worries are over ... solved in an instant! All your dreams and aspirations are suddenly attainable! But beware! If you visit this place to often it robs you of ALL your dreams. All the pleasures that life has fated to you will be burned up like a pile of dried leaves. It takes your life and leaves you with only the desire to have IT again, and again… and again. That, and the agony that envelopes you when you can't get it. Heroin will take from you everything that makes you a person. You will no longer be human. Heroin will make you into a monster. You end up existing only for it. You will become its slave. You will become sick, foolish, ugly and sexless. Perhaps you think, as I once did, that you can take it with impunity. However, I tell you this; Take it just once and it will change you. It is a devil that is older than man and is more evil than any man can comprehend. Yes, it is only a chemical ... as are we all. This painting is a diary of what was going on in my life while I painted it. I went from prescription pain medication to a full blown Heroin addiction in the course of 2 years. This painting foresaw what was to come. I painted a self-fulfilling prophecy. After this painting, I accidentally burned down my studio and did not paint again for over 10 years. Daily DeviationGiven 2007-11-21With an insane attention to detail, the masterfully rendered BLACK HEROIN by *vmaximus does not only tell a story of the artist himself, but also of past, present and future victims of this insidious destroyer of souls. (Featured by $spinegrinder) Comments i love the intricacy of the image...and the accompanying words
 Awesome... Amazing.... every single detail has a reason to be, and seem to have been done with lots of attention... This impress me alot. I read what you wrote, sorry to learn that you went through that. But this drawing somehow shows that you did want to get over it all... Impressive.
Fav. -- "If a child ever asks you how santa claus can live forever, I think a good answer is that he drinks blood"  Wonderful and it hit me where I live. I've been there too, my friend. This October marks my ninth year since I've touched the stuff.
Yes. -- ~~ d e l i c a t e s s e r a c t P R I N T S ~~ ~The Exquisite Corpse  damn...... thats cray-z.... very cool
 that's really fantastic, shit...the person at the bottom towards the right (the one that looks 'human' that isn't 'liar') seems to not quite fit, though, not sure how you could fix that but he fits the painting more like those annoying typed signitures that people will put on pictures of their work online, ie he looks like a separate picture that got placed on top of this image. without him, though, 'liar' is incomplete and doesn't make sense. they both are awkward, i guess, i think because they actually adhere to human anatomy laws; it's like a comic strip combining the sandman and bone, it just doesn't quite look right unless done just so. but i don't know how just so is.
although the hanging person fits. the separation there works. 'liar' works but still needs the other dude to be there, but still in some way that ....fits. ugh. i don't know if i'm making any sense at all...
Hi - thanks for the comment ... Let me explain; The figure you are referring to was purposely rendered in a more realistic way, (as is the "liar") He was my drug dealer, and I painted him from a Polaroid. Note that attached to him are the words "DEATH FOR SALE" ... I understand the incongruity that you are pointing out ... and though it may offset the balance a bit, it was done on purpose. The liar was a friend of mine who, because of drugs, I felt betrayed me. However, I was not thinking clearly and if anyone was a liar, it was I.
-- RS Connett ~ The Vomitus Maximus Museum Oh yes, you make very good sense
 - I apprecaite you comments  -- RS Connett ~ The Vomitus Maximus Museum |
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