The Glade 4.0

Does anyone know where this painting came from? A friend posted it on her facebook and she got it from someone who got it from someone and no one knows where it originated.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Its relatively modern based upon the style, and clearly religious in orientation, but I wouldn't even begin to know where to look for the painting.

Honestly, its not of sufficient skill or quality that I would think it readily search-able, but who knows.

Yeah....my fear is that its some local artist or something and I'll never find it.

The theme is pretty specific...infant loss & heaven, but I have had zero luck in searching.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

It looks like a wall mural in someones bedroom... or something...

Well, it stumped Plink Art, so I got nothin'.

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I tried to help but no matter what I put into Google, the answer I got was

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Once, I was a ranger
Then, I was a warlock
And a mage
And a paladin
Now, I seek to be myself

If my memory serves me correctly, this is something that Stathol has some ability with. You should PM him, and seek his help.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Thanks, I'll see if he knows anything.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I tried searching on "Mother baby womb stars pointing" or something like that, turned up nada in 15 pages of images. I'll be curious if someone does find it, and how.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Google Goggles ... they did nothing!

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Duty is a magnificent blessing because it is the sign of trust from the universe.
END OF LINE.

Tineye cannot find the image specified

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Would be rather easy to recreate and print.

I don't know what the painting's origin is, but I do think it might have come from a different painting? Inspired by, that is....but I can't remember what that one is called, either.

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Ron Paul 2012

I may have to do that. This thing is impossible to find.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

My art history is failing me, but this seems stylistically similar to someone--just can't remember who.

Found it!

http://www.babythomas.co.uk/poetry1.html

It's "Sorrow (My Lost Child)", painted by Victoria Dixon after the stillbirth of her child, Thomas Dixon in 2004. The painting is or was "unfinished" according to the blog, and I don't know if it was ever completed.

She made a earlier, similar painting in 2002 called "Unison" here, on which "Sorrow" was obviously based.

She has a business, Enhance-Me, and is from Stenness, Orkney in Scotland.

Your version has been cropped by just a few pixels on the left, top, and bottom, but seems to be otherwise unmodified. It's kind of odd, because now that I know the title and original file name, I can find it scattered around the web in various places, but none of them are the cropped version you have. Go figure.

The search (GIS) that found it was:
+comet +womb +painting

I'm not even sure that google honors '+' anymore, but old habits die hard.

I also found a thematically similar painting called "Moondance" by Aaron Paquette, for whatever that's worth.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Holy ****. Kudos, Stathol.

Squeeee!!! *hugtackle* Thank you, Stathol!!!!

To me and all the other moms in our group who have had a stillbirth, that painting is complete. Perfect!

I like the other one too.

Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!

You are SO the man.

Thank you!!!!!!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Convinced that Stathole is a Google bot.

Yeah, I'm very impressed, Stathol. How the hell you saw that that is a comet, though, I dunno. Good eye. At least I had one of the search terms.

And, yeah, I put "+" signs in all the time, but I don't think it's reading them the way we think it should.

Good job, though, man.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

If he isn't, he should be (I wonder how that pays?) :p

Nice work Stathol !

You're welcome.

Now if only I could make some progress on this one :/


It has just a little bit of a tail to it. I thought maybe it might depict a shooting star or comet. But the amusing question is why google tagged it with that term. If you take a closer look at the page, it never uses that word to describe the image -- but "comet" does show up in a poem further down the page.

In other words, it just pure dumb luck that "comet" wound up working as a search term.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

'Comet' does seem to be the trick. Tried a couple different searches but I can't seem to come up with it without using comet. I shoulda put more time into this yesterday! :p

In related news, this finally got me to use Google image search's color search thing! It seems really useful for something like this. It probably helps that the painting's overall color tends to match one of Google's pretty closely, though.