THE FACES OF METHAMPHETAMINE

Can One Be Inspired By Photos So Dreadful? History Has Proven It To Be So.

In Disbelief Of What I Was Viewing, The Faces Of Methamphetamine Derive From My Delusion Of Thinking, That Some How If I Can Attempt At Creating A Work Of Art From This Horrible, Traumatic Experience That For So Many Is Indeed Their Reality, If I Could Capture The Feeling, The Emotions Of What It Might Feel Like, To Be Torn From The Inside- Out For Everyone To Witness, It May Seem, Like You Were Indeed Wearing Your Sins On Your Sleeve, For The World To Judge. Condemning You With Very Little To No Help For Rehabilitation.

I Asked Myself This Question. Is There A Great Difference In The Manner In Which Their Pain Is Viewed, From The Many Ways We Are Subjected And Made To Experience Pain?

This Led Me To Begin Examining The Ways In Which Aging Occurred, Due To The Consumption Of The Drug. Still Attempting To Capture The Pain Within, I Continued With Gesso, Ink And Graphite Then Began Tearing The Paper Apart, Enough To See The Wounds, Yet Not Ripping The Paper Entirely So That It Maybe Destroyed.

Such Is A Life Lived, I Believe By A Meth- Head and perhaps us all…