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DDC222 – Beware The Light

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By William King

Width: 46Height: 31

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The Damned Don’t Cry.   This is a series of eclectic images, moods, metaphors, and good old scary stuff. The series was inspired partly by the Visage song, Damned Don’t Cry and a recent conversation with a close friend who asked if my illness affects my art. I struggle with chronic depression amongst other things and it is a wearying and ugly illness that often frustrates and angers me. In conversation, we also talked about art as therapy and I wondered what might happen if I were to let loose my macabre tendencies and exploit my mental darkness and convey it onto a digital canvas. The results were neither anticipated or expected as once I began I discovered I had so many visual stories I could tell that I have struggled to keep ahead of my oft raving imagination. I began this series back in January 2017 and it was finished as of September 2018. Now I had started this exorcism of the depression haunting my soul I felt a need, an insatiable need, to release the inner darkness and allow the light to finally rest on serene pastures new. The work is not autobiographical or representative of who I am or how I feel. They are works of fantasy influenced by a desire to express illness. So there is much beauty to be found here. There is also scary stuff, twisted things, macabre themes and oh so many metaphors that I have lost count of them all. Many pictures took on a life of their own and became a story in their own right. Others are just as they appeared in my head. There are memories here, feelings and emotions captured in an image that sometimes hides its true intent. Some pictures were simply just a bit of fun to make, while others are a homage to films and books. Oh, and did I mention the metaphors? Some of the titles to these works have no bearing on the contents whatsoever. Others convey exactly what the image represents. Others are hints and suggestive of something else. For me, it is all a game, a bit of fun. So have fun reading the stories contained within and if you simply don’t ‘get’ a picture then consider that perhaps that is the point, take note of how it makes you feel and you’ll probably discover that you are ‘getting’ it after all. Some times we should stop asking questions and trying to understand especially when the answer simply needs to be felt. And do also remember to not take it all so seriously. This is an artist at play and, though I haven’t yet explained the rules, I invite you to come and play too. Each doodle is on stretched canvas (12” x 18” and 1/2” deep).

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DDC222 – Beware The Light

By William King

The Damned Don’t Cry.   This is a series of eclectic images, moods, metaphors, and good old scary stuff. The series was inspired partly by the Visage song, Damned Don’t Cry and a recent conversation with a close friend who asked if my illness affects my art. I struggle with chronic depression amongst other things and it is a wearying and ugly illness that often frustrates and angers me. In conversation, we also talked about art as therapy and I wondered what might happen if I were to let loose my macabre tendencies and exploit my mental darkness and convey it onto a digital canvas. The results were neither anticipated or expected as once I began I discovered I had so many visual stories I could tell that I have struggled to keep ahead of my oft raving imagination. I began this series back in January 2017 and it was finished as of September 2018. Now I had started this exorcism of the depression haunting my soul I felt a need, an insatiable need, to release the inner darkness and allow the light to finally rest on serene pastures new. The work is not autobiographical or representative of who I am or how I feel. They are works of fantasy influenced by a desire to express illness. So there is much beauty to be found here. There is also scary stuff, twisted things, macabre themes and oh so many metaphors that I have lost count of them all. Many pictures took on a life of their own and became a story in their own right. Others are just as they appeared in my head. There are memories here, feelings and emotions captured in an image that sometimes hides its true intent. Some pictures were simply just a bit of fun to make, while others are a homage to films and books. Oh, and did I mention the metaphors? Some of the titles to these works have no bearing on the contents whatsoever. Others convey exactly what the image represents. Others are hints and suggestive of something else. For me, it is all a game, a bit of fun. So have fun reading the stories contained within and if you simply don’t ‘get’ a picture then consider that perhaps that is the point, take note of how it makes you feel and you’ll probably discover that you are ‘getting’ it after all. Some times we should stop asking questions and trying to understand especially when the answer simply needs to be felt. And do also remember to not take it all so seriously. This is an artist at play and, though I haven’t yet explained the rules, I invite you to come and play too. Each doodle is on stretched canvas (12” x 18” and 1/2” deep).

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Davy Jones’ Locker  (6) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (7) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (8) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (9) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (10) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (11) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (12) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (13) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (14) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (15) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (16) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (17) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (18) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (19) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (20) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC063 – The Warmth Of Decay by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (21) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (22) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (23) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (24) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (25) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (26) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (27) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC064 – The Derelict Girl by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC067 – Zip by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC070 – Anguish by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC071 – On The Beach by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC072 – The Gardener’s Lament by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC073 – The Madame Of Tears by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC074 – The Return Of Ivy by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC075 – Love by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC078 – I Dream Of Fulci by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC079 – The Play-Thing by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC080 – To Surrender by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC081 – The Incantation by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC083 – The Winter Of Our Discontent by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC085 – Stories From The Beach by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC086 – The Hurting by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC087 – Hymns Once Were Sung by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC088 – The Addicts by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (28) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC093 – Arrival by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (29) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC096 – Man Of Ages by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (30) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC099 – The Gentle Fury by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC102 – Santa Muerte by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (31) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC103 – When The Hurting Stops by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (32) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC104 – The Storyteller by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (33) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC105 – I Want To Be A Ghost by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (34) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC106 – The Owling by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (35) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC108 – Another Glimpse Of Abigail by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC111 – To Fear The Sun by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC113 – The Shout by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC114 – From Within by DDC222 – Beware The Light
0072-With-Squeels-Of-Delight.jpg by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC115 – The Haunted by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davey Jones’ Locker 01 by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC118 – Our Lady Of The Dead by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker 02 by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC121 – Our Lady Of Shadows by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker 03 by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC123 – Cobain’s Lament by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC125 – The Soldier Of Disquiet by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (36) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC128 – The Wailing by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (37) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC132 – Siren by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC134 – Before Sid’s Fall by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC135 – Sorrow by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (38) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC136 – I Await by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (39) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC137 – Wiccan by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC142 – The Scarecrow’s Epiphany by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC143 – The Reaper by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC145 – The Invocation by DDC222 – Beware The Light
Davy Jones’ Locker  (40) by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC002 – Vexed by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC003 – The Passage by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC006 – The Melting Kind by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC150 – The Hidden Illness by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC007 – Melancholy Winter by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC151 – On Stranger Seas by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC008 – Let Loose The Anger by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC009 – The Things In The Corridor by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC010 – The Serene Sickness by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC152 – Ghosts In The Machine by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC011 – Once were children… by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC160 – The Waiting Room by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC161 – The Drowning by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC162 – Crick by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC165 – The Witness Of Horrors by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC013 – For Sale by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC166 – In The Attic by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC014 – Come, Walk With Me by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC169 – Grief by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC015 – Mary Malign by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC170 – Manifestus by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC017 – The Essence Of Dance by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC175 – Last Stop To Nowhere by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC018 – In My Head Are Outer Limits by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC176 – The Burning by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC019 – The Stranger by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC181 – This Old Cabin by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC021 – No Place Like Home by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC022 – Let’s Dance by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC023 – Ah, But That Is Good by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC286 – Fear by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC024 – The Great Depression by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC291 – The Stranger Within by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC025 – Abigail by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC292 – Marmalade by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC026 – The Conjuring by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC027 – It Follows by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC028 – You Too Hear Voices by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC029 – Apocalypse Rising by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC030 – The Last Conductor by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC031 – Kingdom Hospital by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC032 – The Legacy by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC033 – The Watcher by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC034 – Shivers by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC183 – Billy Goat Gruff by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC184 – Styx by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC036 – The Evil Dead by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC038 – 12 Steps by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC186 – Red by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC039 – Pensive Whispers by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC192 – Fever Dreams by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC193 – The Sickening by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC197 – Grandma’s Secret by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC198 – Buck’s Row by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC204 – The Ghosts Of My Past by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC208 – The Mother Of Curses by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC209 – Hellbound by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC210 – Consuming Madness by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC211 – On The Other Side Of The Window by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC212 – Viral Shocks by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC213 – Spiral by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC216 – The Hunger by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC218 – Static by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC219 – The Watcher In The Woods by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC221 – Grandma’s Familiar by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC222 – Beware The Light by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC223 – The Cleansing by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC224 – Look Back And Wonder by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC225 – Wired by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC226 – Barnyard Blues by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC227 – Alone This Night Walks Peter Straub by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC228 – Psychosis In Neon by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC229 – The Scarecrow’s Bride by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC230 – A Ghost Story by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC232 – The Station Of Lost Causes by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC233-Erzulie by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC234 – Charon’s Old Ferry by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC235 – Coffin Joe by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC236 – The Thinker by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC237 – The Bodysnatchers by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC238 – One Last Interview by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC239 – The Sisters Of Mercy by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC242 – The Virgin Suicide by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC243 – No More Hippies by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC245 – The Iceman Cometh by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC247 – The Void by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC251 – In The Stillness Of An Empty Room by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC258 – Mountain Man by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC301 – Follow The Light by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC261 – Autumn Sacrifice by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC303 – Half Remembered Roads by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC264 – We Eat Horses by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC265-Zen by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC306-That Which Flows Beneath by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC267 – House Of Leaves by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC307-The Devils Highway by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC268 – Looking For Room 237 by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC269 – Sanctuary by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC272 – Infection by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC273 – Alizon Device by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC274 – Grass by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC275 – To The Devil A Daughter by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC040 – Angst by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC282 – Hush by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC041 – The Asylum by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC285 – Poison by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC042 – The Gathering Storm by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC044 – Things In The Woods by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC046 – The Changeling by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC048 – Our Lady Of Decay by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC050 – One Soul Lost by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC051 – This Old Truck by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC052 – Stay Back by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC053 – The Stalker by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC054 – The Viral Radient by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC055 – The Survivalist by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC056 – Bodies In The Barrels by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC057 – The Depraved One by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC058 – The Breakup by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC059  – Let’s Go To The Children’s Party by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC061 – The Wounding Kind by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC062 – We Are Still Here by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC149 – The Damned Don’t Cry by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC001 – The Gathering by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC012 – Christine’s Sister by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC035 – Roadkill by DDC222 – Beware The Light
DDC185 – Autumn Warfare by DDC222 – Beware The Light

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