Losing Control The mechanics within my mind make a clunking sound, grinding wheels against each other, like fingernails on a chalkboard – the sound vibrates through my ears making my eyes weep. This pain occurs intensely, it’s sensory – losing control of reality. Am…
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Are there two worlds, one physical and one mental? Can we experience both with a conscious awareness? What is introspection and how does one use it? These questions were “in my mind” when creating this piece of art, as a student…
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Growth – A short story by Charlotte Farhan Hope was a young woman who carried around sadness, as if it were a suitcase of old belongings she had lost the key for a long time ago. Hope wanted to be free of…
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This piece is a reflection on Mother Nature, Lady Justice, Demeter the goddess of the harvest and agriculture, Goddesses of death and the underworld such as Coatlicue, Mictecacihuatl, Nephthys and Persephone. The giver of life and the carrier of the burden of death is how I see…
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Inner Child by Charlotte Farhan I abandoned you my child within, they said you had grownup, convincing me of my mortal sin, forcing me to split and breakup. – You hid – undiscovered for a long time, I forgot about you – putting…
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Am I Real – Art and Poetry by Charlotte Farhan – Looking at depersonalization .
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