Broken Hearts and Broken Dreams
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I wanted to try and portray the damage that divorce actually causes, but is hidden behind the pretty picture that is painted by political correctness.
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A number of so called friends will tend to see divorce as a game and deliberately try to create as much animosity as possible with scant regard to the actual emotional cost of their actions.
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Children become pawns in a power struggle that’s not of their creation; parents don’t see their children as children anymore, but as possessions or even as a weapon to punish the other partner with, eventually the whole situation degrades into a muck slinging dogfight. That invades the families on both sides so even grandparents end up being punished.
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The staircase itself represents the way down and a way back. At the top is light, hope and happiness while at the bottom is decay and sadness, but all that is left of the relationship is an empty shell and the staircase is starting to perish.
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The teddy bear is the children, in the mad rush to escape the parents couldn’t even be bothered to pick up the child’s favourite toy, so the toy like the children’s future is left to rot along with the staircase, as the parents battle on in their emotional bar room brawl, totally unaware of the carnage they are creating for the future of everyone concerned.
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You can also view it as a nice picture of a staircase.
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Acrylic, watercolour, pastel and airbrush on line board.