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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 1482936" data-attributes="member: 1025">Thing is, I didn't think it was weak. It's ok by me if the picture is used as a picture, as long as the picture is in some way functional to the story. The use of it as a stone carving captured the texture and color of their piece, so that it functionally embraced the form as well as the content. And it was clear to me that the piece permeated the story because I felt something of the same mood in reading your story as I felt when I created the piece. I drew it the same day that Bandeeto and I purchased our first house, a scant few weeks ago. I was filled with a strange mixture of fulfillment of a long awaited ambition and a terrible fear of the enormity of what we had just done. We've been waiting over ten years to be able to do this, and it will take us another 30 years to pay for it. I will be a senior citizen before we complete the payments on this purchase, if Josh and I are fortunate enough to live that long. We are now both obligated to stay alive that long--neither of us can do this alone. I didn't think about that while I was doing the drawing--there was a mind numbing paralysis of all linguisitic thought all that day. It was a week or two later before I could look back at it and realize what went in to it. So themes of the passage of time, grim resolve, terror, and embracing eternity were all very appropriate. And Mythago, I love what you did with "She Waits."That painting has a story of its own, too, but it's not nearly as interesting as the one you built for it. Many thanks.</blockquote>

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