BreakMyMask

Darren, 20. Using this blog as a means to get my poetry out there because DeviantArt is laughable, and to create an archive of artwork that inspires me and hopefully others. But I'm also wanting to potentially connect with other creatives as well, so please feel free to ask and "connect". I mainly write in an attempt to reflect upon and/or work through whatever it is that is occupying my mind during moments of concentrated emotion, either positive or negative, even both potentially. To try and make sense of the two ends of the psychosomatic duality, body and mind; the emotion, and the consciousness behind it. As painfully new age as that may have sounded, I hope I don't deter anyone from at least checking something out that could possibly inspire or make one feel connected in some way. I don't like spoon-feeding, in any sense of the word, and find instant gratification boring. I prefer subtlety, the space between the lines to allow for emotional and intellectual investment, as well as at least some room for interpretation. Favorite visual artists: Alex Pardee, Alex Grey, Cameron Gray, Silvia Pelissero, Kirill, Zdislaw Beksinski Favorite movies: Departures, Sweeney Todd, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Little Miss Sunshine Favorite bands / musical artists: Tool, Deftones, Palehorse, Isis, Downfall of Gaia, Chopin, Gospeed You! Black Emperor, Omega Massif, Mono, Grieg, Explosions in the Sky, The Devin Townsend Project, Sigur Ros, Pig Destroyer, Bongripper, Caspian, Jakob, Mastodon, Om, *shels Favorite writers: J.R. Hayes, Maynard James Keenan, Nikolai Grune and Seedi, Chino Moreno General interests: Music in general, illustration, 3D digital modelling, sacred geometry, humanism, small dabs of nihilism, empiricism, and deconstructionism, meditation, consciousness, psychology, nondualism.

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Skeletal sculptures by Monika Horčicová

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Peter Upward

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Ted Lawson

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Yoni by UnripeHamadryad

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New paintings by Akira Beard

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Guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy is believed to be behind a new mural which recently appeared on a wall in Cheltenham, England near the headquarters of the Government’s intelligence agency, GCHQ. The artwork depicts three men dressed as 1950s spies in trademark trenchcoats and sunglasses spying on various phone conversations. The new mural comes in the wake of the storm over surveillance and the NSA revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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Hoarse

Maybe once I was a symbol of freedom,

but now it feels like self-deception

with this rope-burn around my throat

and bouquet of bruises along my ribs.

  Today they nailed a grey rainbow to my feet,

the same ones they use for good luck.

At times his whip may break my skin,

but not like irony’s breaks my heart.

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Bicicleta Sem Freio

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Thorsten Dittrich

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Karma

So desperate to reach the shores of Tarshish,

a brief reprieve from that which follows you

like a contorted shadow in an alleyway

and jerks you awake when you try to sleep.

  But it isn’t God, my friend,

although it’s infinitely more damning;

guilt will devour you like a black hole

and leave you feeling just as empty,

and when it spits you out

there will be no kikayon tree.

  It’s as inevitable as the sunrise,

as inescapable as Alcatraz.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions,

and you’re one brick away.

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Alchemy

I wish for fire to sear my skin,

only that I may be reborn

as the sun’s warm rays,

  and be the first to kiss your cheek

every morning as you draw your curtains.

  I wish for tempests to gnaw my bones,

only that I may be reborn

as the calm, cool breeze,

  and move through your lungs

as the gentle song which you sing to yourself.

  And not once will I ask for recompense.

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When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.

~ Eckhart Tolle

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Dream Portraits by Antonio Mora

A series of standard portraits fused with landscape, animal, and abstract photography that represent an in-between phase of consciousness.