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Oil on linen 1650mm x 1000mm
This is a painting that has been coming for some time but I had to think it out and get it right.
There is a lot of emotion in this painting.

The subject is our little girl who contracted Meningitis before she was one year old and it has left her profoundly deaf.
At the time she was the youngest ever to receive a Cochlea implant which is a marvellous invention and has taught her to speak very clearly. One of the down sides however is the taunting she has received at the hands of her piers at school.
This has had serious consequences that I will not go into here but I wanted to capture that look of forlornness and defeat of life and the overwhelming feeling to give up the fight to try and fit in to to-days society.
The main portrait is her as I see her. The second is a clinical view of her with the implant and the distant one is her looking back at herself feeling ugly and wishing things were different.
I feel a bit at odds about putting this in here but I painted this as a statement I guess and therefore should be shown.

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=AndyIomoon May 31, 2009, 9:19:23 PM
Amazing work, Graeme. Really hits all the right notes. And what a lovely muse your daughter is.

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*Elfin-Grrl May 31, 2009, 10:23:08 PM
Absolutely stunning, beautiful and moving. I can feel all the emotion and pain in this piece as well as the love you have for your daughter. I can imagine how hard it was to paint and even more to show it here, but I'm so glad you did mate, it's incredible :heart:

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`johnpaulthornton May 31, 2009, 10:36:33 PM
This is a beautiful and meaningful use of your artistry.

I am so supportive of this direction and this intimacy.


John Paul

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~graemeb Jun 1, 2009, 1:33:39 AM
Elfy, mate I just got an offer to ride a Harley Daverson to Adelaide with some of the Crusty Demons while my son dose a story on the ride for the magazine. Then I will watch two Crusty shows in Adelaide get pissed with the boys then fly home.
How cool is that.
Sorry I can't be serious at the moment and I won't be home till Sunday night so I will answer all then see ya mate.

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~mlst Jun 1, 2009, 4:21:30 AM
It is a shame about the taunting, but I think the only way round it is if your daughter said to them, "Do you want to wear an implant as well? I'm sure that could be arranged." or if a teacher told those involved why she wears it, and why she could not do without it. True story - I have an e-mail correspondent who wears hearing aids and who is studying to be an audiologist. She had to drop off some forms at the "disability unit" at the university she is studying at, and she heard some of the student volunteers who were collecting the forms prior to them going to the head of this unit, and they were poking fun at another student. She told me she did not want to tell anybody "in authority" about this, but I told her, "If those students are like that now, imagine what they'll be like when they've graduated. You MUST tell someone". So she did - and when she went back to that place about a week later - those students weren't there and had been replaced by "sensible" ones. I hope your daughter is less bothered by the taunters in future.
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=goldenSalamander Jun 1, 2009, 5:48:34 AM
Kids can be really hard and cruel to each other and make life miserable for the different kid. I hope that as she gets older she comes to terms with all the great things about herself and can feel good about herself and see she is so much more than a hearing problem. Beautiful work...how does she like it?

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*winklepickers Jun 1, 2009, 5:59:54 AM
Graeme.

These portraits are so good.
I can't say anything more than what you yourself say.
You all have my sympathy and I wish you the best for the future.

Sue. :hug:

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~ForlornExistence Jun 1, 2009, 9:10:50 AM
wow! brilliant concept and execution! beautiful skin tone and lighting as well!

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*Elfin-Grrl Jun 1, 2009, 9:13:12 AM
How fantastic is that!! You enjoy, and I think you're gunna!! Want to see photos when your back! :D :ahoy:

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*density-tmr Jun 1, 2009, 11:43:19 AM
This is a very beautiful artwork. Well done. I am sorry to hear of her problems

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