illustration | Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Hope

Part of a series of illustrations.

posted by: Johanna Velasco| comment on this post|Tags: illustration, loonybin, Personal Work

photography | Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

The Endless – Desire & Despair

More photos from The Endless Series inspired by Neil Gaiman’s Sandman graphic novels.

These are portraits of the twins – androgynous, manipulative Desire and wretched, grotesque Despair.

Desire

“And Desire walks the endless pathways of its body, certain that he, or she, or it, is in sole and only control of its destiny. The only inhabitant of the twilight realm of Desire; and it feels nothing like a doll. Nothing like a doll at all.” – Neil Gaiman

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Despair

“When hope is past, she is there. She is in a thousand thousand waiting rooms and empty streets, in grey concrete buildings and anonymous hotels. She is on the other side of every mirror. When the eyes that look back at you know you too well and no longer care for what they see, they are her eyes. She stands and waits, and in her posture the pain no longer tells you to live, and in her presence joy is unimaginable.” – Neil Gaiman

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