@ghatihan: I hope you didn't get depressed because you checked my work ;)

Thanks SndCastie... I didn't know who to contact anyway... @elizabyte: I had that line in my head already ;) Yeah, a memorial page for me... they must really want to get rid of me ;)

The image represents the different facets and stages of the boy's life. It's more a symbolic approach.

For example, the female body with the men's clothing represents the transformation and also his mother, and his feminine side. The blouse hanging there is part of the shell in which the boy resided. (coming out of his shell so to speak). The painting represents society as well as artistic expression. There's a lot more symbolism in there, but I leave that to everyone's imagination ;)

It's a visual story, I can really see them sitting there. It's like a short movie in my brain while I'm reading it. There's a lot of detail, even though it all happens in a short period of time. There's not much conversation, but they are very effective, since the rest of the text explains very much of the emotions behind it all. Very well written.

Thanks for all your comments. They were really helpful. As far as the "As democracy tends to pride itself" is concerned. I meant the "As" as the equivalent of "while". For example: As I'm standing here, it's getting colder and colder". I will change the drift part though. I was getting confused by rift, drift, drive, rip, etc etc. :)

Noo Yawk accent? Loin to tawk Noo Yawkish, youse!!! Fer fye dolliz I'll teach ya. I guess "yoo nevah hoid" of the northern city shift then either;)

I guess the closest resemblance between an american accent and an english (standard) would a new england accent (roughly speaking a "boston accent") even though it's still very different.

The southern drawl is way different for example in Texas and Louisiana. I guess the Southern Drawl is a collective name for a speaking disorder, lol.

It's certainly not my last posting. I just started writing poetry again after my infamous pc crash in which i lost all of my 114 poems :( Nope, no back ups of them. Some of my images are accompanies by small poems/ statements of 4 lines. 4 lines are easy, since they allow you to make a powerful message in a few words. And from an art point of view: less is more :) To be honest I don't know what it is I can post on this board... just poems and short stories or are lyrics accepted as well? and images with a poem in them (text)?Anyway, I think that poetry and images go hand in hand very well. Since you can interpret a poem in many ways, the poem adds a visual explaination.

I totally agree. 90% of the polital statement images being posted here are not special in any way except for a particular point of view. They have nothing to do with the creation of art (not trying to create another "what is art topic" though) and thus will not generate any comments that have to do with art. ~Rik~