Despair - A photo study of life especially off balance in 2020

Despair Despair Photo Study in life in 2020. Life is despair. Life is watched by a dark angel ...S. Jeffrey Photography

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The Dark Angel May be your only Confidant with despair

A photo Study in despair Models Dark Angel - Lee Ellis Despair - Amanda Cullen

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Location Auditorium Hotel, Nanton Ab Photographer - Stephen Jeffrey Layout & Design - Stephen Jeffrey

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Cigarettes & Coffee There are so many, many lonely days. Days where even alone and in the light that we can feel that there is no worth left in us and deserve to be overwhelmed and crushed by the lings we think that we can’t control. Our only friends are cigarettes and coffee. Oh the longing to have a friend who cared, Even a dark angel who understands where i am, who will see what i need, and be there, even if only in my mind

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This Forlorn feeling that we call Despair “It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer float, for instance, your happiness at sipping the delicious concoction may not be quite as enormous as when you first had a root beer float, and the twelfth time your happiness may be still less enormous, until root beer floats begin to offer you very little happiness at all, because you have become used to the taste of vanilla ice cream and root beer mixed together. However, the second time you find a thumbtack in your root beer float, your despair is much greater than the first time, when you dismissed the thumbtack as a freak accident rather than part of the scheme of a soda jerk, a phrase which here means “ice cream shop employee who is trying to injure your tongue,” and by the twelfth time you find a thumbtack, your despair is even greater still, until you can hardly utter the phrase “root beer float” without bursting into tears. It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”

- Lemony Snicket, The End

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“Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.” ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

Despair the bastard child of this cold new age we have created all of the stress of troubles gone by accentuated by the speed of a new society that lives for it’s moment on social media to tell the world of our troubles our fears and takes glee in the firestorm of petty backlash knowing that it is the mating call of revenge of personal sorrow of the tragic loss of a happy smile it begats it’s new bastard child despair

“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

We have tried to capture that feeling here with our modest work in the hopes that you will witness despair’s unbridled power and by viewing it by feeling it by understanding it that we can do our best to act as one soul and vanquish it’s power with all who we know

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“The wounds that never heal

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can only be mourned alone.�

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