There is certain art that comes to you, and then there is some that comes through you. There are no thoughts to convey, no particular stories to tell. All that is there to guide you is just pure intuition & emotion.  
I don't know if this artwork represents surrendering to the light. I don't know if it tells the story of giving into the luminous siren call of giving up the fight. Maybe it's both. Maybe it's neither. Maybe it's something entirely different. Here, I am just the messenger, and the message is for you to decipher.  

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Hand painted in Procreate & Photoshop  
2800px X 3500px  
300 DPI

Luminary #2/12

Neptune - The Roman god of fresh water and the seas. The brother of Jupiter and Pluto.

This is the kingdom of Goddesses and Gods, the land of harnessing the immense powers of elemental energies.

Water - A symbol of life. Capable of both healing and suffering, protection and vulnerability, change and constancy, stillness and rage, both yielding and powerful. Capable of both humility, taking the form of what it fills; and destruction, capable of great violence.

Neptune

"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” 
- A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

The price of love is grief. There is no great love without great pain. The darkness flowing through me is proof that you were here, you were real, and I was loved.
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In memory of my tabby boy, the love of my life - Atom
Dec 2019 - Apr 2023

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3500 x 4500px
300 DPI
Digitally painted
©TheDarkRayne

Conduit

What has begun must end. I would let go of this pattern's completeness to abandon the predictable orbit of existence, all in the hope of a reunion that transcends this veil, in a place where time and mortality cease to exist.

Memento Mori

The void reaches out to me relentlessly, like an immense gravitational pull. The weight of loss is heavy, it touches the sweet memories of you with it's dark hands, taints them, and turns them into something bittersweet. If only, this black hole was a time machine that could take me back to you.
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In memory of my soul cat, the love of my life - Atom
Dec 2019 - Apr 2023


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3500 x 4500px
300 DPI
Digitally painted
©TheDarkRayne

Void

After years of learning all I could about depression, I came across the work of Johann Hari some years ago. According to him, majority of depression is just unmet needs & disconnection. This was a rather refreshing take for me. If depression is disconnection, it's remedy has to be connection to at least some degree. I figured that I need to find a community if I am to ever crawl out of this hole. I wanted to know what it feels like to not wake up with a black hole in my chest. 
After years of searching, I ended up here. When I look back at 2022, this community has been front & center. It has made me want to make art again, made me believe that my voice matters, made me feel like I belong. It has made me want to live again. Every experience I've had here, whether good or bad; every person I've met here, whether they like me or not, has all been worth it. Regardless of how you feel about me, if we have ever spoken, I want to thank you for being a part of my life. 

This is my love letter to the NFT community.



Belonging #2/15

TheDarkRayne - old

Foundation

As I wake up from my sleep, the weight of loss instantly engulfs me. It becomes heavier & heavier, suffocating my heart with a relentless ache. Reality crashes in with a merciless force, jolting me back to the painful truth that you are no longer here. Each morning becomes a dreaded ritual of confronting the void that now resides within me. The world around me feels distorted and unfamiliar, as if a piece of my soul has been lost forever. With each waking breath, I find myself suspended between a longing for what once was and the harsh reality of what now remains.
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In memory of my soul cat, the love of my life - Atom
Dec 2018 - Apr 2023
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4028 x 5178 px
300 DPI
Digitally painted
©TheDarkRayne
2023

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