Erebus

The personification of darkness. I think sometimes people associate darkness with ugliness or lack of beauty. The darkness within us is layered and multifaceted. Sure, some parts are less desirable than others but certainly not every piece is bad. That can be said about any ideology out there. I know that in a lot of my writings, when I talk about the darkness within, I'm referring to clinical depression. The insidious kind of darkness that eats away at a person. That is not what I'm representing with this piece. I think as one of the weirdos, I'm more inclined to spend time looking into my shadows and finding areas of myself that need work. I'm comfortably uncomfortable in dark spaces, just not the depression spaces. Those ones scare me. Some of the most beautiful souls I have met have a fair modicum of darkness in their life. How would we benchmark the light areas if not for the dark area. It’s impossible to have one and not the other.
In the darkness came the buds of a shining and beautiful friendship. Of course I have met others that I love dearly. But the most important friendship I’ve found in the darkness is the one with myself. It’s fragile and a little broken, but I’m working on it.

This piece is 45 inches long and hand made by me using faceted black spinel and small round onyx beads. Protecting and grounding you as you wade through your murky depths.