ON COMMON GROUND by LAURANASTASE

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Description This is a picture of women that I met . They were all going to prison for violent crimes. It started out just sketches around the room to improve my facial drawings. They were scattered on several pieces of paper until I got home and this is what it became. The hurricane is for the torment in their lives. The abuse, was it physical, mental, sexual. What would make an individual go to such an extreme that they would murder someone? In the state of Florida also I met very young girls that were going to be locked up for a very long time. One girl I met she was 16, her and her boyfriend killed her grandmother for drug money or something! Whether they ment to or not is not the issue. I was shocked. She was 22 the next time I saw her, still locked up. Killing their husbands...children.... In the pschological end of it, could someone be tortured to such an extreme to kill? This subject is terrifying. And the stories I have heard are Horrific. I can only pray for them that they find counseling, to find hope and a purpose for being on this earth. Never let anyone put you in such a state of mind.....walk away from the relationship because it isn't worth it. I was rapped by a police officer when I was 19....I can still see it today... his gun.... I buried the thought of that incident for 20 years until I did a first step for recovery and it came up when I was writting the incidents of what occurred in my days of drinking. I was in shock when I remembered and it has never gone away since. I wanted to kill him with his gun.....but just for one slight second I thought....You'll go to prison for the rest of your life! He wasn't worth it! I thank god everyday that I didn't react! Especially after growing up with violence and abuse in my family.That is what I had in common.

LAURANASTASE
Member Since September 2007
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