Steve Henderson Fine ArtMay 29, 2025

She stopped looking down at her phone -- more and more she didn't even carry it -- and she looked up, out, around her.

And bit by bit, she found that she could see beyond the mist of lies and deceit that for so long she had thought was reality.

The Witching Hour framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/the-witching-hour-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

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Show threadTVirusMay 29, 2025
@SteveHendersonFineArt This drawing is very specific but it is exactly what I have been searching for since a year.
Show threadSteve Henderson Fine ArtMay 29, 2025
@fuzzybitchy I am glad to hear that, and would enjoy hearing more about your search, if you are willing to share. If not, no problem. If you are interested in purchasing the artwork as a print, this code -- EULRNN -- given at checkout at the website link in the post -- will give you $30 off any print (framed, unframed, canvas, paper, etc.) 12 inches or larger.
Show threadTVirusMay 30, 2025

@SteveHendersonFineArt I have always felt that the combination of sadness and feeling alone (like no one understands you) is a woman in a white dress, sitting by a lake in a forest. Did you have these feelings in mind while making this?

I searched online but the images that came up were always too happy or didn't connect with me. I even used AI to generate it but I couldn't get anything good (which in hindsight makes sense, AI is dumb).

Show threadSteve Henderson Fine ArtMay 30, 2025
@fuzzybitchy When I made this, I was thinking of seeking, searching, that intense yearning for something beyond what we're told to expect -- that is, indeed, a feeling of being alone for the people who feel this, perhaps a bit of sadness but not necessarily so. It's that aching desire for something more, something worth seeking, driven so deep in our heart that it won't let go.
Show threadTVirus
@SteveHendersonFineArt Now I understand why art is deep. Almost all my life, I used to think art is pretty but pretentious.
May 31, 2025 at 8:51amWeb
Show threadSteve Henderson Fine ArtMay 31, 2025
@fuzzybitchy Some is. At the risk of being vilified by someone ready to take offense (not you), pop art is shallow. "Modern" art, which is more than 100 years old, isn't as deep as it pretends to be. Art, created by an artist who has taken time to acquire enough skill to "speak" what he/she wants to speak through the medium of choice, will say what that artist feels deeply -- joy, grief, hope, fear, love, amazement. And that is deep.