A picture is worth a thousand words... At least that's exactly how people feel when seeing illustrations by a mysterious Japanese artist Avogado6.
The illustrator and video editor don't share many personal details about his life. "I am an ordinary person who likes chemistry," he writes on his Twitter profile, but the meaningful drawings of the artist are far from ordinary.
Avogado6 manages to create sentimental, vivid images by drawing feelings and emotions that might seem hard to describe with words. And sometimes his sad drawings don't really need an explanation, as they convey the emotions so well, often hiding a harsh social issue behind them.
The artist has more than 650k followers on Twitter and has published two books. And his success is sure to grow bigger with time, as this Japanese art maestro delivers new deep meaning illustrations very often, deciphering problems with society and our inner fears better with each one.
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Don't let your job use up your batteries. I used to work for a place that used people up because, "We will just hire somebody else" Letting your work use up your batteries is not the right place to work. I'd love to give advice to those who need an ear.
Did you work in architecture? An architect I used to work with said architecture was the only profession that ate its young.
Load More Replies...but instead hurting them and that makes you want to please them more.
Load More Replies...Just because they're hard and spiky on the outside doesn't mean that they don't have a soft soul
Huh? There's blood on the person hugging them though xD
Load More Replies...totally got something different out of this... just because someone says or acts like they have good intentions dosen't mean they do....
having a bad reputation because of the past and wanting to make things right but you just can't without hurting people
What for those who look like s**t on both :(
Load More Replies...Gotta get them likes. The sad reality of social media! An incredibly powerful tool that can be detrimental to our mental health.
Or maybe she's showing that even in a life of darkness she's found her spot of sunlight. It doesn't have to be fake happiness - maybe she does feel good despite everything. Just a different perspective.
Yeah - that's a valid interpretation too. Thanks. (It's a bit like my life, most days.)
Load More Replies...This is reality. Look at people's social media accounts. People post the best parts of them online and try to hide the negatives. Denial is almost built into our systems. It's disgusting. There's no need to share every private thought and event that goes on in your lives, but don't make your life seem like all fairy tales and happiness. It's a lie then...
Well, that's the question, and I often wonder what the answer is: Are these people who post so many pictures of themselves seemingly having a great time really that happy and fulfilled, or is it just a facade. I'm inclined to believe they really are happy and having a great time. Yeah, I'm a bit envious, but that's a separate issue.
Load More Replies...My little ones watch a lot of funny age appropriate stuff on YouTube, but the other day one of them drew a picture and they put a square around the picture and below that was a subscribe button and the number of current subscribers 1.7m. I am gonna have to make sure I work with them as they grow older to make sure they don't fall in to the new trend of internet based validation. Such as number of Likes, subscribers, or in our case Up Votes. I really only participate online on Bored Panda in small chunks of time. From my own experience I can see how easy it can be to become excited when a post get 10 upvotes. Or disappointed because my Post was taken out of context and received down votes. No one should use this system to validate their worth, or social acceptance. It is a neat thing but boy could it hurt a person who is not strong or confident in themselves.
publishing your life to others online making it look completly different to what it is really like
She's alone with her stuff, surrounded by bills but nothing that has truly made her happy, nothing of real and lasting value.
I think it's いいね, pronounced "eenay" (near as I can type), meaning "Good, eh?!" but a bit more like: "I'm good!"(smiley) in common English. But I'm no expert. Get another opinion as well.
Load More Replies...:( She just keep hypnosis herself she is nice and good. Lie to other people that she is fine. (いいね!mean nice)
me too, sadly it's how things goes, we can just feel a bit better thinking we'll join them someday....
Load More Replies...Agreed these drawings are pretty deep and full of little pieces that really say a lot more than what you see in your first glance.
Load More Replies...This is the reason my ex and I worked so hard at having a good co-parenting relationship for our son. Perfect visual representation
For me, this reminds me of a child and his fading memories of his parents.
Omg!!! So true!! My mom passed in 2013, my boyfriend in 2013, and my dad in 2014. I work hard to keep them deep within me.
Load More Replies...parents being gradually pulled away from their children by society and work
This is a Japanese artist i do feel this is related to the tragedies of recient and the broken families it left behind
Time doesn't kill us. If anything it's just a relief that one day it will definitely pass away.
Load More Replies...Death is inevitable. You've seen others go through it, you should know your time is coming. But I don't think you should live with a noose around your neck. Instead, take it off and use it as a swinging rope into death when you've full and well completed everything you've wanted to and lived life to your fullest. Your hands aren't tied for a reason. Take control.
Yeah...and people telling you things like "Look! The key is *right there*!"
Load More Replies...It scares me a bit to see the only response to this picture is recognition. I really hope you all have help fighting this. And if not, please have the courage to reach out to anyone who can. Wishing you all the best!
You are lovely. I have bipolar, and am in treatment. Pictures like this sometimes allow people to express themselves in a forum where like minds acknowledge and respond. All it takes is another person to say, "I feel you." Or "can I help." Thank you for your kind words. Take care
Load More Replies...Sometimes.. the depression has blinded you to much and the pressure of anxiety and the will to stay hidden away blocks you from the relief of freedom from your chains, so close.. yet so far away
She could roll off the bed, grab the key and unlock herself. Though I get the real meaning of this, of course.
what if the key was no where in sight? maybe she is lost in her own thoughts?
Load More Replies...Look at the shadow... it seems that his own chipped parts are casting that chipping shadow. Maby it meens that we are our greatest enemies. I know that I can be great... as long as I trust myself. On other hand, when I am insecure, I am dumb as hell 😉😎
I see this as the memory of a lost loved one chipping away at your sanity.
When you meet the one but you two are on clearly two different paths.
Is my life's blood without it i swear i would die l
Load More Replies...I feel like most people do not realise you are all actualy addicted on coffee, that the "I can't work at morning without a cup of coffee." is no't a possitive thing, it is on same level as: "I can't make it through the day without a flask of vodka at evening." or "I can't work without at least a pocket of cigarets."
Society and big business treats people like disposable objects, existing only for their benefit.
once you die you just get as easily replaced as batteries to run the world for others who are higher ranked
we are just fuel to these businesses.. once we’re drained, there new ones waiting to replace us
Born into a plastic world where our only purpose is to be the battery to drive our only point of work- to gain income- then to be discarded away when our usefulness (energy) is depleted or gone
just add some staff :D IMG_8311-5...a9332d.jpg
So basically this cartoon is saying. Kittens, ahh just what the doctor ordered. For me it would be puppies. My next door neighbor is fostering some puppies till they find a new home. I now call and ask to have a puppy play date with them. Basically I bring them over to my house and just play with them for 30 mins to an hour. Whatever it takes for them to get worn out and fall asleep. Then I call up the neighbor and turn them back in. It is actually really cool. I get all the puppy love in short bursts which makes it a treat, and I don't have to take care of all the problems puppies bring with them. You know the responsibility of raising them. I know it is selfish, but the neighbor gets a break and I get to enjoy some puppy breath. Fair trade if you ask me!
On the envelope on the right it is written "shohousen" (medical prescription).
Thank you. Cats are good for humans, at least for cat people >^,,^< Otherwise there should have been dogs prescripted.
Load More Replies...“I’d rather be surrounded by the honest love of cats, than the falsity of people”
Putting out negative things can have a negative effect on others around you
It seems like it's suggesting that when you shield yourself from the storm you lose your mind (and any ability to think and create) yet when you leave yourself open to the rain it feeds your own brainstorm.
Everyone else’s problems are put on her, and she can’t take it. Everyone around her is falling apart and when she starts to, everyone just tries to protect themselves. She’s overloaded trying to help everyone and hold it all in.
Trying to interact (the rain) with others but they ignore and protect them self (the umbrellas) from her free mind
I wish I could be like, "Oh, I know what this means!" when in reality I got no clue.
It's what happens when you make a girl mad. After she bit the head off every man there is, her anger is still consuming her. She needs to learn to let things go.
Feeling like someone is cutting the strings that control you. :)
Load More Replies...Not feeling prepared for when the strings that control and protect you are cut.
It looks like they are cutting the last strings that are holding you together
When you cut the strings of attachment be careful not to cut the threads that we all need to keep us together.
When it turns out that the people who you called "friends" Were just using you and once you become useless they'll cut the strings that were bringing you together
Hello, Darkness my old friend. XD (Sorry couldn't help it)
Load More Replies...For me this is so deep and powerful. I had so much dark moments in my life, fighting monsters in my mind, trying to find a light. And even though those moments are the hardest, I am so happy I went through them, because it shaped me into a person I am today. Light is beautiful, but darkness, that is when you really have a chance to learn and grow.
Well, light is blinding, darkness is what you need to take a rest....
Load More Replies...No. This is a lost love. She still has a place in his heart. She is blackened and shadowy meaning she is gone. Yet if you look she has little twigs growing on her, meaning the memory of her still has a hold on him. He can't let go. He loved her too much.
the black thing looks like coming from the heart..maybe a tainted heart consumes you
No matter how much you claw at it, it’s still suffocating, enveloping, and it comes from within so there’s no escape.
This illustration is more poetic than much of the artwork that is out there today.
Poetic? It looks like MIGRAINE to me. That's the only thing coming to my head when i look at this pic... And tbh, I'm glad that for once, the word came without the pain lol.
Load More Replies...guyz it also just if u didnt notice the thing dat crushes says worry on it
Amazing - this is one of the few illustrations that exactly sums up how my depression feels to me
It just represent tiredness to me... exhaustion.. the fact that we live in a world where it feels like we can never take a real break, we are always under pressure
When you're stressed or tired everything seems to slowly melt until the person you love comes and gets you back on your feet
a sheltered and restricted child being lured out of their cage and safety by someone taking advantage of their innocence
Or a man saying he loves a woman while doing nothing to help her (or being the one to cage her)
Load More Replies...I think the girl is trapped by the guy, seeing him as someone who brought her the flower as a sign for happiness but not knowing he's taking advantage of her.
a man keeping tight tabs on his girlfriend in this very controlling relationship. BUT bringing her a rose as a sign of his "love"
I think the point is 'don't "throw darts" at people you because you never know just how much you're hurting them'.
You may have a smile as a mask, but no one can see the pain you're facing since you try so hard to hide the lost blood and tears.
Just because someone isn't crying doesn't mean they aren't sad, just because someone is smiling it doesn't mean they're happy, just because says they're okay it doesn't mean they're okay...sometimes people wear a mask so they can protect the ones their love or so that nobody worries about them
The beauty and danger to ourselves that can grow out of each and every one of us.
"Grow a spine" they said! "Any side effects?" I asked. "It would be noose to me" they said.
This is very accurate of what being suicidal feels like. It's not wanting to die, but all the time you see ways of ending your life. You start to acknowledge it. And that seems like the only way out of whatever s**t you are going through. And for that reason, every day without killing yourself is a battle. And for that reason actually committing suicide is not a sign of weakness. It's just a lost battle. People who haven't been there cannot understand what it is like. I was like that. I thought I could understand, but only when I had those thoughts myself, did I understand, that it's not about wanting to die. It feels like you are already dying. Slowly. And there are no reasons to continue, so to stay alive means you need to decide to stay alive without any reason that feels rational. And that is a battle easy to lose since dying seems to have many good points to lure you in. If you have lost someone to suicide, please do consider them brave and strong as f**k to survive that far.
HEDWIG!!!!! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD oh wait i know what this is *cries*
Load More Replies...In my opinion, the owl symbolizes wisdom, and with great wisdom comes heaviness of everything, since you think and think and think and it never stops
I just want to point to out that owls are actually really dumb (but I do get your metaphor)
Load More Replies...It was quick chase in a Chevy and the winner said "You Can Call Me Owl".
This is actually what ppl did in southern China when it snowed for like the first time in forever
But letting go is scary. There's a long drop and the carrion birds are waiting for you to fail.
Load More Replies...being selfish will keep you away from the one you love. (notice how many balloons he has vs her).
What if y'all are all off a little here?! What if he was putting all of his trust and faith in her and doing everything he could as she was little by little pushing him away (balloon after balloon).. whether intentional or by her wrongdoings... he looks sad and shocked by the deceit & by her body language, facing away from him, shes seems like she didn't really think he'd go, but she won't do anything to stop him from leaving, or to get him back... but She's holding on to the last balloon as we all hold on to memories, but people usually tend to think the guy did something so I feel she's still holding that too to get people to feel sympathetic toward her.. so she can still get attention and fill the empty space around her... while he has enough around him but needs to fill the void in his heart!!! I know this comment is long, but the more I typed the more relatable it unfortunately became!!!
wanting everything will one day carry you away and when those crows burst those bubbles, well, goodluck on the fall
The boy is bright and cheerful the ballons must symbolize happiness and the girl is dark, black dress and black hair and only has one balloon meaning she can barely be happy but the boy is gonna help her and make her feel happiness again
What if the balloons symbolize happiness? The girl, dressed in all black, is unable to fly away with the boy because she has one balloon, little happiness. The boy, who likely wanted to stay, couldn't because -as you can tell from the direction of the birds' movement- the wind picked up his balloons that he didn't let go of.
Hoping for the parents you never had. Wanting a complete family...
Or maybe they're never home... as is the case with most parents.
Load More Replies...This represents kids who don't have parents or do have parents but they don't care about their child. The kid in the picture has the kind of parents who only buys them stuff and he doesn't want that so he uses the stuff they bought him so he can feel connected to his parents
Tricking yourself about your parents and making them seem good when they are really not.
some people fix other people, mend their hearts, and be the light in the darkness. but they are the ones who need most fixing, mending and light.
Having to be a bright, warm person when in reality, you're drowning in depression.
There are people who find freedom on drugs and alcohol when it's just an illusion
I feel like that sometimes. I keep giving pieces of me away - sometimes the pieces get abused and most never come back.
Trying to pout yourself back together but can find the pieces for your heart
Giving all of yourself to others.. exhausted.. draining yourself to death to please people
Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking off her clothes
You feel like your drowning even though you not underwater, and you can't do anything about it.
Living life in a fish bowl..... Because of social media you are always on display to someone's eyes
Society make us feel like drawing but does not kill us. Explanation: The oxygen tank is is labeled SOCIETY, and ironically it pumps out water instead of oxygen. The kid is wearing a backpack which represent our RESPONSIBILITIES. The fact that the bowl is closed but has a little room for air represents how we feel asphyxiated by the pressure underwater but we are still given that little freedom. That small room for oxygen.
First thougth: reversed reality... Second one: Politics... So lets go with: 'misleading impression'
Staying in your own bubble because you’re afraid that the outside world (represented by air in this picture) won’t sustain you.
The moment when the inner child confronts you with the person you became.
yesss righhttt. to me this feels like dealing with my childhood self and past, but it could as be read as fighting your little self. regressing isnt always good and idk bout others but for me regressing can bring more pain, but yeah totally reminded me of littlespace
Load More Replies...He keeps thinking about the past he has to confront his inner child or else he'll be thinking about his childhood trauma forever and that will haunt him for live
Ahhh... children... the biggest piece of yourself.. you don't want to miss a moment, good or bad, but can sometimes feel they'll be the death of you!!! Or.. being forced to take a look at yourself as others view you.. judgements and rumors could be the death of a career or a relationship...
If you look at the shadow, she is also an airhead. Perhaps all of the others are thinking the same thing.
I agree... When surveyed the vast majority of individuals believe they are smarter than average or a better than average driver.
Load More Replies...Surrounded by airheads, the girl who isn't an airhead has the shadow of an airhead wich means she's faking that she's an airhead
She took her heart out of the closet for a bipass.
Load More Replies...Notice the tears........those with a big heart are often hurt. Notice the big heart is a balloon.......will eventually deflate, meaning the big heart will get smaller, meaning people become less kind as time goes on. The big heart is something everybody notices because it's big. The blatant target and very vulnerable target just needs one well aimed dart (nastiness of another or others) to destroy it.
Feeling vulnerable, putting your heart out there. You know it's gonna get stabbed but you still do it. Desperately wanting to be able to trust someone.
When you keep your feelings to yourself and finally tell them what you're actually feeling
Darkness will clnsume you even if you're grasping at your last bit of light.
It's funny how different the interpretations can be. I thought it look like a picture of someone who has big dreams but other people dont let him dream because they fear that he could succed so they try to put him down Sorry for my bad Englisch I m not a native speaker
Load More Replies...Being carried away by the darkness in life, clinging on to the small amount of hope
Understanding and support from others can help you reach for light despite the darkness you’re currently in
What makes me reluctant on talking out my demons to people that do not have them... :(
You can actually see two scenes! 1: the darkness is taking the boy away from the light. 2: the darkness is trying to help the boy reach the light. On the first scene I see the darkness representing depression and the light representing happiness the boy is trying to hold on to the light but the darkness is much stronger. In the second scene I see the darkness as people related to him who have depression and the boy is almost following that path but they don't let him and help him reach the light and so he will be safe and maybe those people too
The opposite image would be hands of people in darkness give a leg up for one of them to light the world.
Tic Toc, we live by the clock, tic toc we die by that saqme clock
Tonight I came back specifically to find this image.im trying to sort a dreadful situation out but only have my phone and multiple places wanting a piece of me, replies, sorting, needing vital things in a tiny tight deadline...... And the memory of this came back to me. This artist is truly phenomenal.
so many things draining us of our energy.. choose carefully which ones to plug
Alternating Current is overloaded. DC is used in Europe and is safe. DC in America needs to be regulated before we blow ourselves up.
This is how it feels when you feel like you have no meaning while other people do..
someone in a happy fulfilled life with the books representing what that person has to live for, whereas the person without books is someone without anything to live for, or so they think
Be patient when helping someone who's struggling to adapt. (There's enough yarn)
Or… not matter how patient you are, some people are just not equipped to do what you're asking of them
Load More Replies...Rescuing her from when the cats cradle got too tangled.
Load More Replies...People don't want to connect to the one they eat.
Load More Replies...Just because somebody has a disability doesn't mean they don't deserve a chance to play or learn... to be included.. whether or not they appear to be capable.. the person in all black is slumped over and already defeated yet the little girl in the white looks up at them with such an accepting & encouraging innocence & intrigue!! You never truly know what somebody us going through, but it doesn't mean you should ever give up faith!!
love those kitties. Sometimes in my deepest depression, my cats saved me
Having several chronic illnesses,inclusing depressuon & anxiety d/o, I can honestly say that my furbabies are the best kind of "therapists!" & can pull me out of deepest depressions & when my anxiety d/o peaks,snuggling with my kitties (& doggos) helps to calm me immediately. I can't imagine my life w/o thrm !❤
I may be looking way too deep into these but heres what i thought: The flower could be repesenting love and the picking of the petals could be playing on that whole "he loves me, he loves me not" rhyme sooo it could be representing a broken heart and the more times the person's heart was broken the more desensitised the person became, leading on to become a doll which is made of plastic and emotionless...?
There is no wrong answer I think. Everyone can look at each image and see what they see. I think this is what the beauty of each image. : )
Load More Replies...Loosing someone and leaving it to the odds for either to let the wounds heal or to commit suicide. Dolls represent emptiness, feeling empty. The hands being hurt represent anger because these are injuries made from punching recklessly. petals represent love. Bandage represent healing. And finally, flowers represent relationships.
I know this is long! But please tell me allow me tell you my interpretation on this beautiful image. Flowers represent relationship. The character is pickling the flowers one by one. This is done when people don't know what to do and want to leave whatever they are going to do up to the odds. Like rolling a dice. The left hand is shown to be a fake; a doll per say. This shows that the character feels emotionless and empty like a marionette. This is a good contrast to the right hand, which we can see that it has injuries most likely made by the self harm of punching a wall/someone/yourself. The bandage represents a way of wanting to heal wound and stop pain. the fact that it is laid off the body with a petal laying beside it represents that the character might have chosen to kill herself probably due to a an important relationship being gone over letting time heal his/her wounds.
Is see it as they want to become a lifeless doll so they don't feel any pain
there are multiple doors waiting to be opened by you in this tree of life
Looking at your tree of life from a distance can overshadow life itself. You'll be contemplating life instead of living life.
The person depicted is pondering what path he will take, and whether or not he should just explore what none have, the white that is disregarded as dangerous and blinding, without guarentees that he will even reach anything, or die without aspiring to be anything more than what you were born as. I think the white repressnts the vast space that we havent explored. Humanitu advancing is the tree moving forward, while the end of the shadow of where we came from goes fainter and eventually disapears. The light symbolises being blinded by what is to come and the uncertainty in chosing differently. You as a person can make your own shadow that people can choose to follow, or do the same and create their own. After your death you return to the earth and become life again in the form of a tree that people can follow and immitate, forming the branches that represent the deviations that people have made to your own path.
many doors and ropes to walk through and ropes to kill yourself with, life is full of pros and cons
Idk if I’m looking too far into this but on the tree, I think the doors are different choices you can make, you don’t know what’s behind the doors, so it could be bad. I also saw what looked like nooses to show the way out. The tree and all its branches look so complicated. The boy is in the shadow, probably bc he’s being kept in the dark. He doesn’t know what could happen. And he has a watering can to water the tree. The only problem is, he’s not going through any of the doors. Maybe he’s watering the tree to have more choices. Or maybe he’s too afraid to go through with anything, so he stays in the dark
each action that we make (the watering can) can grow and branch out into many things, they could be opportunities (doors) or destruction (noose)
In the tree of life you can go through the door...or be consumed by the noose
So many great interpretations I can think for this one!! Never give up on or doubt yourself or your hopes & dreams.. people will say they believe in you or support you or that u can always rely on them (those in the shadows)... no matter what be there for & never give up on yourself!!! The people in the shadows could also be loved ones that had passed or who, for whatever reason, you were no longer with.. whether in Heaven or on Earth you want to show them what you have become and want them to be proud of you!! Dance to the tune of your own music!!
This is age. The others have gone and you are left alone with your memories.
a conductor without an orchestra, a musician without an instrument, a writer without a pen.. this is so sad..
either loneliness or having a dream that nobody believes you can accomplish so you have nobody to achieve it with you
just listen to everyone else talking about themselves, never talk about yourself and keep your mouth shut
Omg...this is nightmare of insanity...which ends blaming self and trying to make it r8ght by punishing self
"I'M FINE"........ biggest lie of all time!!! Always having to conform or act, think, or feel a certain way to the point of losing your own identity & being at your breaking point
The night owl. Or insomnia, depending on how early you have to get up in the morning.
Drinking the night. This one I actually like, doesn't seem depressing to me:)
Wanting so bad to be accepted in a certain city or field or work or social group/status that you'll do whatever it takes... up all night/up early... "drinking/taking it all in... even if it means fading away and blending in
Or, not being able to have a child of your own.
Load More Replies...Feeling like you parents just want to make you perfect in there way and not yours
The onions are little things, they bug you slightly and it's not a big deal. Until they build up, there is to many to stand and you break down for seemingly no reason.
People are slowly chipping away at you, then they leave behind you and their tools of distruction
when you're trying to hold it together but things slowly fall apart, including u
I see this one as people trying to make themselves thinner, resulting in eating disorders like anorexia...
i remembered this japanese drama i watched where the main character compared herself to a product on a shelf.. she put a price tag on herself, thinking that’s how much she amounted to.. but nobody wanted to buy her.. so she made discount after discount but nobody still wanted her, until the price she put on herself became smaller and smaller until she finally gave herself for free.. self-worth
100% off this life is what suicide promises, but in the end, you only expire.
i wonder what the red hands in these pieces represent, just a choice of color or a symbolization of something?
Maybe representing that the hands have more "power" And they're able to control
Load More Replies...This is kind of what depression is like.. you try to stop crying but there isn’t really a reason for it., it makes sense to me
I feel it says more of "Trying to defuse the ticking timebomb that is your heart"
Load More Replies...Trying to diffuse the bomb inside yourself, and afraid that you will just end up making the situation so much worse, and you could end up dead. But, it gets to a point where the tension is killing you so much that it doesn't even matter anymore, and you almost hope it does blow up.
I think this represents how much time he has left and cutting the wire with a wrench is killing himself. It says 49:89. That could mean he has 49 years and 89 months left.
the machine is the state of depression and cutting the wire could imply suicide, cutting off all feelings
sometimes we feel like a ticking time bomb and anytime soon we are gonna explode.. we try to diffuse that bomb but we don’t know which one will save or make us explode..
Your heart is a ticking time bomb, the more time passes the more depression builds up. You feel the need to stop it before it explodes and you have a meltdown or anxiety attack. Or before people see your true emotions.
there is a plethora of emotions trying to burst out but you bottle them up inside a cage
yes and all you want is to let them free but all the reputation you have made for yourself would not aprove.
Load More Replies...It looks like he's holding a knife behind his back. Self harm as a way of saying "F you" to the world that has hurt you? That's what I get from this one.
Everything will be ok if you believe that it will. Ask for help from someone you trust, and you will overcome whatever obstacle you are facing now.
Load More Replies...I can't think of anything else besides that except food coma
Load More Replies...... or - you are heated and nurtured just to eat you? The character has a cap - so she's freezing. Heat melting cheese warmed this figure. But what will be next?... :/
Crying alone, even coffee doesn't make you happy anymore. Remembering old times with someone you used to love.
When you don't want to go outside because you don't want to be hurt anymore
Sth like anger agains crying at the time of actual crying and sadness that makes passive crying... "I feel like crying, and I am crying but f**k it! I hate that cry. Tears if you want to flow down on my chick... I dont give a s**t about it... f**k of tears!"
no, it think its more a description of how it feels to be left out. excluded. ignored and ridiculed. all to a point where you restrict yourself from developing any feelings and locking yourself away from the world so you wont need to hear them anymore. shutting them all out so you dont drown in hate until you realize youre suffocating in your own mind and you try to escape but you never realized that there were so many chains holding you back, and then you wake up with no real memory of who you were and you need to make a new life for yourself and act like youre fine. when in reality, nothing about you is anywhere near fine. but you try to convince yourself it is. then you cant even comprehend your own feelings and are left completely devoid of anything to say who you are. and you keep that fact shut away too.
Load More Replies...a description of how it feels to be left out. excluded. ignored and ridiculed. all to a point where you restrict yourself from developing any feelings and locking yourself away from the world so you wont need to hear them anymore. shutting them all out so you dont drown in hate until you realize youre suffocating in your own mind and you try to escape but you never realized that there were so many chains holding you back, and then you wake up with no real memory of who you were and you need to make a new life for yourself and act like youre fine. when in reality, nothing about you is anywhere near fine. but you try to convince yourself it is. then you cant even comprehend your own feelings and are left completely devoid of anything to say who you are. and you keep that fact shut away too.
When you lose trust in people you'll lock up your emotions you'll show them to the people you actually trust but not completely only your loved one will be able to unlock it and see what's inside
this reminded me of the book "The Kite Runner", pomegranates are a symbol of life
This reminds me of the Greek goddess, Persephone, and how she ate a third of a pomegranate in the Underworld, trapping her there for a third of every year.
"I need this so I stop hurting myself without meaning to, because all I want to do is heal."
Yes! And don't just care for others (the cat) but yourself as well.
Load More Replies...I believe this shows how our constant destruction of others will only lead to our own destruction.
two of the girls are laughing at him so it could mean constant pain
"If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you join them?" Comes to mind. 'Your friends will push you over that cliff and won't feel responsible at all. '
When we see the ballerina dance, we only see the beauty and gracefulness of her dance. We never thought of the harships she had gone through to perfect her moves. The anching feet for one. Beauty comes with a price.
dont people watch ballerinas because of that? maybe there is symbolism in flowers here because the red one. wish i knew about flowers more. hey look, i found something shiny, im gonna go touch it. oh look, my battery has 89 percent.
Load More Replies...Behind every beautiful thing is a backstory of hardship and pain that may still exist.
The perfection you see on the surface doesn’t reflect the pain within.
Have you ever thought about life and how, people always tell you what to do. Do you realize, that all the decisions you make depend on someone else. Say, Your friend was walking with you. She asked if you wanted to come over later. Say you did instead of studding for that huge test. It was your decisions to go but, would you have gone if you were ever asked to go? Even If you didn't go you still must have had thought about going. Do you guys get that?
Well you are in a world now and have to respond to the input. Put a raincoat on when it is wet outside. However in your example you start with 'other people always tell you what to do'... I bet there were also people who told you to study. Ultimately it ïs your decision. And as soon as you realise this, you can start choosing wisely and this way create your own future/reality!!
Load More Replies...I've lived through this for 9 years and I am so sick of it
Load More Replies...Letting your parents or the educational system control you too much
it doesn't matter what u do because some one else will make it happen
There's a wedding band on her finger. She's a controlling spouse, not a parent
Why have such a depressed face when you got butterflies in your head?:)
if only his unique ideas could make it into his work
I'm afraid the deep meaning of this was lost on me, because as someone who bakes a whole real lot, my only association with this is egg whites(and the interestingly shaped baking molds right there) XD They cling to themselves really tightly, so if you put several egg whites in the same cups even days later you can separate egg whites from different eggs from each other. And trying to get just how much you need looks kind of like this, minus the faces:)
Life is a choice. There’s an easy way out (exit door on the right). To end it once and for all(the noose). Or the journey may be long and high, but it’s the light at the end.
See the little noose there, dangling by the step he is standing on?
Good eye! The person can keep struggling upwards or go off the side.
Load More Replies...Leaving the darkness of being depressed and start being happy again
sometimes fruit, stains all my brand new white s**t.
Load More Replies...i would take that chance and let it rain all over me. everything would be oh so colorful!
I like the way the clock is both smiling and frowning, like when you're good at your job, but don't like the job itself
Everyone wants your time&attention until theres no time for yourself...
If you live with nature instead of against it life will be fulfilled.
Is your heart weighing you down and chaining you into a bad relationship?
An emotional hostage. You care too much to leave, but when you stay, the person you care for wears down your own happiness by constantly taking and never giving.
Over. Lost in depression, sick and tired of the constant anxiety, drained. Lost in the sauce... me
My interpretation: You are so busy documenting your experiences in photos, you forget to actually be in the moment and experience the beauty first hand without a camera lens.
capturing the beauty of nature to lessen the darkness within
Load More Replies...hiding behind ourselves and our ideals of socially acceptable beauty.
have a good strong root in the heart and what will come out of you will be beautyful
It may seem like it would sound bad if you said it out loud, but try it, you might be suprised
Your talent begins with a seed that no one can see but it will slowly bloom into a beautiful flower
I see this like natural light that wants attention from the person getting comfort from the artificial light of the TV and the cell phone.
Light mean hope. He hope for someone to pull him out of this situation. Just like me.
I see social anxiety here. This person is alone, in the darkness, and all the hands are reaching from the light, trying to make contact.
Load More Replies...Sometimes, when you're deep into depression. Light, seems almost scary.
Real life is trying to touch you and get you outside your own box.
Indifference to the outside world and living an artificial life through technology
When you're in despair, you do not see the hands reaching out to try and help
This is a constant. How come no one sees that our masks are just that: masks?
Look up! Things seem dark and dreary now, but things will get better.
Stepping outside after not doing so for too long. Being social after being depressed for too long.
Poppies are opiates. This could be the unwell person contained but not cured underneath medication
Trying to escape the effects of the strong painkillers; you look fine but the pain is still there!
mental disorder. again Carl!!! you are a human Carl!!!
Also could be blasting (no pun intended) how company parties make one lose individuality.
Load More Replies...Blocking out the peer pressure. He has headphones on while the heads are speakers which means the headphones are playing a different tune.
Relying on parties with loud music and alcohol to hide your sadness
Pouring emotions into something, writing, art, music, dance. Anything! Just getting it all out.
Society got to you and now you're being consumed by the darkness but you keep trying to get it out
Worst case of vertigo when you're so nauseated want to vomit everything you ever ate but all you have is bile
You may think you have cried enough, but other things just may you cry even more to the point where society can't accept it.
Yellow roses symbolize friendship. This person is destroying friendships, even the ability to be one's own friend
Letting go of all the fake things that aren’t truly you so that you can see yourself more clearly.
Enduring so much pain just to get a little love. Hearts and darts
Love also carry things that hurt, because we're all imperfect beings, but if you can't accept that and reject love for the pain it implies, you may never experience love in your live.
"ummm, excuse me sir, theres something wrong with your umbrella."
I love this one! Not sure of the symbolism, but I think it's lovely
Low of oxygen... That's exactly how I described it during my previous period of depression. I could breathe just fine but the air was suddenly low on O2.
Omg I can so relate to this, but never known somebody else feel this as well!! This makes me kind of relieved cause this means that I´m not alone in thinking that the air is low on oxygen...! Thank you, don´t feel totally crazy anymore <3
Load More Replies...Keeping your ideas to yourself because you think no one will accept them
I think it's more of a " letting everyone else fill your head with thoughts and believes. Not leaving enough space to hold his/her own thoughts and ideas" kind of deal here, based on the empty expression on his/her face
Load More Replies...This actually references jiang shi (chinese zombie/vampire), which are corpses reanimated by a talisman on their forehead. It is said that these corpses were reanimated when they needed to transport bodies, as jiang shi can move by hopping (their dead bodies are too stiff to move normally). To me, this image is a play on jiang shi, with money instead of a talisman that causes the person to mindlessly act, much like the jiang shi themselves.
That's so interesting! And a pretty good interpretation I think
Load More Replies...Internet trolls. Being paid to spread fake news online. Not seeing the truth because it’s obscured with money.
Falling down, feeling like drowning and everyone around you walk just fine.
Drowning in my depression. Surrounded by people, yet all alone.
The worst feeling ever when you want to breakfree and be the happiest and then you hit the clear glass.
Load More Replies...Being heavy from your problems sinking in this world where people with no feelings lightheaded stay on the surface like idols
Someone who you care about turns into just a memory and you try to nourish it, but it will eventually die.
"Ready to go, but never to return. O son! The night before thy wedding day Hath death lain with thy wife. There she lies, Flower as she was, deflowered by him." -Romeo and Juliet.
Load More Replies...Just because society sees someone as a rotten person it doesn't mean that they're actually rotten
I believe those are tuning forks on their heads. Seems to be a comment on the pressure for every person to be the same "to sing the same tune" if you will.
mind control fine tuning plague in the educational institutes and uniformed for the illusion that we are all the same... or an evil form of meditation through use of tuning forks to find the evil frequency of each chakara. hence the badass red eyes.
How you feel like at work, you feel like everyone is a slave and you can be replaced any minute you feel controlled
死ね、消え mean (tell someone)to die, to disappear. 馬鹿 mean stupid or fool. ウザイ mean annoying. All these are curse words in Japanese. It's mean he never say these words.
So it could mean he's draining himself from all of the bad things he wants to say in order to not offend anyone?
Load More Replies...the top word says death. same character for both chinese and japanese so I can read that one but not the others unfortunately
Load More Replies...Only speaking your own thoughts when under the influence of alcohol.
Pretending to be okay when you actually have a ton of things you want to say. Feeling like you are worthless and wanting to tell other people but can't.
When the people in your life make it all about themselves except they manage a small scrap for you
The child's parents are alcoholics and he rarely finds anything that's for him in the fridge...
Child is just used, like a domestic object with no regard for their humanity or individuality.
Growing, but also losing parts of yourself that aren’t necessary anymore.
You have to throw away parts you don't need so you can begin to bloom into a beautiful flower/tree
People taking all they can from you leaving you to pick up the pieces
toilets in the near future. is that the s**t the boy ate from the paint can in the illustration a page or so back?
The liquid appears to be filtered by the individual sitting in the funnel... Goes in orange comes out black. The fact the person is wearing a suit is no accident but I don't know what it symbolizes?
Trying to drown/dilute one's sorrows in alcohol?
Load More Replies...'Never fear shadows, for shadows only mean there is a light shining somewhere near by'
When you want to find beauty on something but are afraid to get hurt
In the end, there is beauty in what we find familiar... Is this painting an allusion to The Little Prince?
So that's how they make bottled water so good, it's mermaid's tears!
actualy that is japenies sprite i like it BTW NOT SPARKLING WATER
Load More Replies...The ones who downvoted this, I guess this person meant the type of drink that's in this bottle shape, not the meaning behind it. Those drinks are called: Ramune.
Load More Replies...Getting an award, but is actually just people's wish and not what you truly want.
Something that seems so small to other people can have a big meaning to other people
Getting an award, but is actually because people are forcing their expectation on you.
You have to ignore whatever is making you down so you can get a grasp on happiness
You thought you were finally free from work only to find out you died from working too much
The child has angel wings and a halo, perhaps it represents innocence while the papers represent work, bad life experiences, mental disorders, and/or media. Your innocence dies and you feel like a fallen angel.
We play this game every week to look forward to Sunday. If fail, Sunday won't come and will working all week. (だるま落とし is a traditional game in Japan. Kick out all these blocks below the red block.)
Thank you for your explanations :) If you have time, give us explanations about other illustrations.
Load More Replies...With your destructive emotions you can make something beautiful, an art piece, a dance, a story, a song.
Or vice versa. Seeing the world even when you close your eyes. Or simply being constantly alert.
Load More Replies...S**t these are deep. They're also beautiful, even tho I feel sad that I can (or used to be able to) relate to them. Stay strong peeps. You will find happiness. I promise.
Thanks for saying we will find happiness But sometimes, no matter hiw far we go, we might not achieve our goal(for me, happiness) and we just go on, never reaching our goal no mwtter how much we try.
Load More Replies...Dang. Depression summed up very well in these pics. I admire this artist
I agree with your first part. He suffers from some serious depression, if he views the world like this. But having had to overcome my clinical depression, I don't admire this at all. Just thinking about this is depressing as all get-out. :(
Load More Replies...Depression sucks as hell but I'm glad he can relieve it, at least partly, by making and sharing these pictures. I wish I could hug the artist... (-:
I love reading all of the other interpretations on these drawings. We are all looking at the same picture but see different things based on our own unique life experiences and perspectives. Very interesting.
I feel very sad for people that suffer like this, more so because my life has been a playgound, I've had so much enjoyment, fun, met some of the best people, and its all due due to blessings, karma, or just plain luck, undeservedly so.
There are stunning. Very well done and so accurate, I can speak from experience. I strongly believe that everyone has a path in life, and no one's is the same. However your life is going, there is a reason for it, and even if it may not seem like it, good things are possible. So never stop dreaming, never stop hoping, never stop living.
This post made me cry. It's heartbreaking to me that some people actually feel this way. I hope happiness is around the corner for all of you!
S**t these are deep. They're also beautiful, even tho I feel sad that I can (or used to be able to) relate to them. Stay strong peeps. You will find happiness. I promise.
Thanks for saying we will find happiness But sometimes, no matter hiw far we go, we might not achieve our goal(for me, happiness) and we just go on, never reaching our goal no mwtter how much we try.
Load More Replies...Dang. Depression summed up very well in these pics. I admire this artist
I agree with your first part. He suffers from some serious depression, if he views the world like this. But having had to overcome my clinical depression, I don't admire this at all. Just thinking about this is depressing as all get-out. :(
Load More Replies...Depression sucks as hell but I'm glad he can relieve it, at least partly, by making and sharing these pictures. I wish I could hug the artist... (-:
I love reading all of the other interpretations on these drawings. We are all looking at the same picture but see different things based on our own unique life experiences and perspectives. Very interesting.
I feel very sad for people that suffer like this, more so because my life has been a playgound, I've had so much enjoyment, fun, met some of the best people, and its all due due to blessings, karma, or just plain luck, undeservedly so.
There are stunning. Very well done and so accurate, I can speak from experience. I strongly believe that everyone has a path in life, and no one's is the same. However your life is going, there is a reason for it, and even if it may not seem like it, good things are possible. So never stop dreaming, never stop hoping, never stop living.
This post made me cry. It's heartbreaking to me that some people actually feel this way. I hope happiness is around the corner for all of you!
