22.2.12

Such Sweet Sorrow; Sam Wolfe Connelly.


Alex.



Bleary Night.



Backfill.



The sheer gorgeousness of these graphite works by Sam Wolfe Connelly have set my teeth on edge. Especially Alex; the grief on the girl's face is almost too exquisite. I wish I could purchase a print... If you have more money than I do at the moment, you can make it your own here. The piece's backstory gives it even more power:



"This is a portrait of the one girl [I] used to treasure more than anything.

Her expression in the drawing is actually from a photograph I took some time back, of her crying right before she left me. She never knew that this photo was taken. I had no reason of even why I took a picture of her, or what possessed me to keep it. Immediately after I had taken it I had forgotten about it, up until right before my show when I found it digging through my things. So, I turned it into a drawing."

See more of his work here.

4 comments:

yiqin; said...

beautiful photos <3

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danielle and dinosaur toes said...

wow, they really are gorgeous. i love all of the emotion that's shown. the last one is my favorite!

danielle and dinosaur toes said...

oh, p.s. i also meant to say that i really appreciate the last comment you left on my blog :) sometimes i feel like people don't bother to read what i put, but it always means a lot when they do, so thank you!