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Submitted: August 22, 2012
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Consumedby ~Intercepto

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At the time we were living in Croatia there was one old man living in an apartment below ours that had Alzheimer's disease. He would sometimes come to our doors in the middle of the night and try to unlock the doors thinking that it was his apartment. His daughter once told me he forgot who she was, and how he cut his bed with a saw for no logical reason. What a torture that must be, loosing yourself, all your memories, reason and logic. The essence of life is contained in those experiences we had over our lives, people we met and loved, and then this punishment came and took everything from him, stole his essence, his soul, and left him with just a shell of what he is not. There was more left of that old man in his daughter that in the body he was once populating. I will always remember you my unknown friend, you gave me power to create this piece of art, but I wish you never ignited this idea in me because that would mean that you spent your old days free of this suffering. You will live inside your loved ones until the day their time comes, but you will live inside this image forever.

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Consumed by ~Intercepto is absolutely breath-taking. The detail and depth of emotion within this piece is stunning, and the technical execution is excellent. ( Featured by `Cymae )

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~Celeste-Cloude4evr Feb 21, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Very beautiful and sad, I like all the detailing in it

~MrMango Jan 17, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

fantastic work ! Marvellous lighting , atmosphere and details ! totally amazing 3D artwork !

~caskr Nov 26, 2012 Student Digital Artist

amazed at the details....

*whitebuffalo57 Nov 13, 2012

wow!!! fantastic image!!as well as a wonderful heartwarming thoughtful tribute!!

~MIke018 Nov 12, 2012

simply amazing... stunned ...

~Victor-Lam-art Nov 9, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Wow goddammit ! It is really rare that I start screaming when seing a deviation !
Incredible work ! one of the best I have seen the whole year and one of the most worthy DD's known to me !
congrats ! you have my respect !
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*Vampyric-Saiyaness Nov 4, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Definitely worth the DD. This is an amazing picture. The story made me very sad.

~teecee2107 Nov 1, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Outstanding scene ! Your modeling and texturing skills are fantastic. Marvelously stunning !

~Esurio Sep 27, 2012

Recently my Great Grandmother passed away shortly after her 100th birthday. The loss is painfully, we all loved her so much, but her death in truth leaves us more relieved than sorrowful. She'd wanted to die for nearly four years now, and although we hated to lose her, watching her suffer endlessly was much, much worse. Alzheimer's robbed her mind, stole her memories, and left her in a state of constant panic grasping desperately at the last threads of her sanity. The doctors gave her medication to try and help slow the destruction, but in place of the chaos of the Alzheimer's the medication left her in a state of constant, aching terror from hallucinations and nightmares. To see my strong, brilliant great grandmother--a woman who climbed Mount Everest and back-packed across the Middle East in the heart of a time where women were still treated more like fragile trophies than independent and strong individuals--reduce to a frightened and confused mere shadow of herself was a greater pain than anything my family has ever had to bear before.

I can think of no crueler punishment than to descend slowly into madness, losing every piece of yourself bit by bit, only to have small moments of clarity when you become completely aware of what is happening and that there is nothing you can do but wait to die.

This is an incredibly long review, but this piece and the story behind it really struck me emotionally as the past couple years of seeing my beloved great grandmother decay and the pain of her suffering and loss have just been weighing very heavily on me lately. I really appreciate coming across this picture. It truly illustrates the pain that Alzheimer's forces families endure. I don't think people can really understand what this disease does until they've experienced it for themselves.

Thank you so much for making this, because it really does make me and my family feel a little less alone in our struggle with this pain.

~Victor-Lam-art Nov 30, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

very powerfull stories ! both of you !
I don't want to say I loved or liked them because it would seem inappropriate ..
although I somehow do ... lets say they were very impressive and inspiring..
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