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strictly no genAI or NFTs · independent artist 🇮🇪🏳️⚧️ business enquiries: crowdotflac@gmail.com commission me: vgen.co/crowdotflac
!["all the world's people grieved this unfortunate event, yet god breathed her last. she returned to the dust, promising to come again."
i'm incredibly proud of this piece and so happy to reveal it after days of work. this is my first real piece of silent hill fan art as well as my first print available for sale tomorrow night at acab, so i wanted to make it special.
i packed a lot of religious imagery in this one to invoke the influences of christianity that the order exhibits. the intention was to show cheryl as mother mary, her baby self as jesus, the aglaophotis as a protective rosary, and claudia wolf as the holy spirit. cheryl is turning her back on her oppressors and challenging the viewer next, ready to defend her current and past self against any threat to her autonomy. valtiel, god's servant, reaches for claudia and baby cheryl, the two most vulnerable characters in the painting. he knows if he tried to fight cheryl he would lose. god and the incubus exist in a straight line behind cheryl as the versions of herself who obey the order and carry out their will, god at the top as she holds ultimate power over the order.
i purposefully broke the rules of religious/icon paintings when choosing cheryl's pose; her baby self shows no innate maturity or wisdom and is just a normal baby. she doesn't focus on the baby or raise her eyes with reverence and hope towards paradise/heaven, instead staring straight at the viewer. we don't need to be shown in the painting that she loves herself through religious exposition, we know this because she defends herself and her right to choose how she lives her life. she has no predetermined meaning to her hand positioning, she only cares for protecting her baby self, and uses the aglaophotis to do so by aborting god and continuing the cycle of love and protection that her father began in the first game.
thank you for reading this whole caption! [the rest is cut off but it's what i said in my original post]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5kodjgpwk2kc6ymmu4hav2pg/bafkreiccetvsh7xjqrsmq5mc3rgkad3byzj4r3fn344ilk5rqdxxgpxky4)