fear of success
Inspired by Martin Puryear’s “Ladder for Booker T. Washington”
How far do you climb?
At what cost?
Do you fear the assent?
or descent?
Do you climb at all?
What prevents you from climbing?
or climbing further?
Many will notice that the falling figure is not me
I wanted the work to remain generic
however it is my mouth
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Leena Hedman, about 1 month ago
Fantastic consept an execution. Perfect!
Romo, about 1 month ago
Oh my, you have got one hell of an imagination my friend….wow…this is fantastic:)
Carlos Teófilo, about 1 month ago
This is superb TG. You are a master. Great, great
susi lawson, about 1 month ago
whoa!! Very cool idea and great job! You are soo productive!!
JenniferB, about 1 month ago
how weird, I just wrote a muse about Hope and before I abreviated it I spoke of failing and falling…
Snap. Sure wish I could create images as well as you to express the feeling. :-)
Laurie McClave, about 1 month ago
Wow Totally COOL!
RavenSoul, about 1 month ago
EXCELLENT!
kreesor, about 1 month ago
Extraordinary!!
Heather Rivet..., about 1 month ago
wowl…this is outstanding
tkrosevear, about 1 month ago
nice choppers – hehehe…I love the symbolism, been trying not to climb for years, but with your encouragement and awesome imagination been changing my mind ;)
jewelskings, about 1 month ago
Fabulous!
Jaybe, about 1 month ago
I love this – I climbed, fell off, got back on and climbed again….and this expresses it all perfectly. Magical…..
ArtByDrew, about 1 month ago
Awesome, inspirational, and brilliant as always, Toasted… well done!
frogster, about 1 month ago
Nicely done
midzing, about 1 month ago
brilliant!!
atomikboy, about 1 month ago
Dude, your on fire lately…....awesome!!!
Dave Martsolf, about 1 month ago
TG,
I must tell you about a ‘trip’ I made in my early college days. I was feeling like what it must have been like to be Hitler in his early days. The adulation of masses of people hailing “Seig Heil!”. Everyone of millions of live spirits all in love with me at once. It was like you painted up in the sky. But, then it all flipped negative. I wasn’t just an open mouth. It was a recrimination hell with all those millions of spirits now spitting and chastizing at the same moment that I had opened my heart to drink in all their praise and love. And, it was a free fall, just as you drew it; uncontrollable, like being turned inside out. Amazing. I hadn’t thought of that experience for – well – for almost 40 years. The places we’ve seen and been to. Some not so pretty. Thanks, TG.
deahna, about 1 month ago
Splendid work, absolutely brilliant!
Christopher Bi..., about 1 month ago
this is inspired!
Elana Bailey, about 1 month ago
Sensational concept. Well done.
Shelley Heath
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about 1 month ago
Brilliant work, absolutely love the concept
Nicole Goggins, about 1 month ago
briliant title and image! well done!
owlspook, about 1 month ago
a fav TG!! .. (smile)
Richard Hemus, about 1 month ago
Brilliant interpretation
peyote, about 1 month ago
Very intense… xXx
Michael McCasland, about 1 month ago
You displayed most peoples real greatest fear perfectly. I’d love looking in your mind.
onefourseven, about 1 month ago
This is brilliant!! Love the guy falling, the facial expression…........ and the perspective!! Would love to know how mant times you played about with his dimensions!!
Great work!!
Jing3011, about 1 month ago
Fantastic concept and “execution.”
ToastedGhost in reply to Dave Martsolf’s comment, about 1 month ago
Yes the mind can lead us on some extraordinary journeys
Worlds beyond beuaty and worlds beyond hell.
I have never had such a dream as to compare with yours. The only one that comes close, though there was on bitter ending, was when I was 14 and outside my bedroom a que of girls had formed and they all wanted to ‘spend’ time with me. Never had that dream agian but I often wished I would.
Shanina Conway, about 1 month ago
Brilliant creative insightful work TG…..;)
Dave Martsolf, about 1 month ago
Never had that dream, but did daydream at times of the woman on my newspaper route that had two buxom daughters that used to invite me into their house to play with suggestive comments on my insignificant ego. Hadn’t thought of those women in years.
Anita Schep, about 1 month ago
Awesome!!!!
George Lenz, about 1 month ago
very imaginative
reflector, about 1 month ago
Very creative and excellently processed ! A Trippy image.
jase8812, about 1 month ago
Brilliant !
TeriLee, about 1 month ago
Incredible!
zuladairam, about 1 month ago
super
Ash Sivils, about 1 month ago
Ah ha – perfect!
TRACY BAGNALL, about 1 month ago
excelent work, I ahve been here.
billyboy, about 1 month ago
TG, you are SO rockin’ these days!
randomdumping, about 1 month ago
You have some really creative stuff here!
MOC2, about 1 month ago
Very nice work. Excellent Job.
Butterflies An..., about 1 month ago
i fear success, because i know what i am capable of when i have it…
with success may come wealth and with wealth i would end up dead no doubt…overindilgeance is a real bitch.
anyways im half talkin out of m y ass..really you dont have to be wealthy to be successful i know that…i have the fear of failing, so i dont even attemp half of the i should or dream up…
ToastedGhost in reply to Butterflies And Bullets’s comment, about 1 month ago
A Brazilian director “Augusto Boal” describes these action as the “Cops in the head” our own censors are stronger than anything else. They pretend to look after us… No, no… don’t go for that job you are bound to fail so don’t do it
navybrat, about 1 month ago
over the top!
RosaCobos, about 1 month ago
A Babel Tower, designed for “getting to the sky” and eventually “see God”
Absence of prespective and above all a lack of knowlledge on “spaciousness”..
“what is down.. so it is up” and viceverse.
I can feel the Babel Tower made with words… The Verb not as an energy but as a device, that created ideology and “success” is one of them…ideologies…
Lao Tse…or even Jesus put it clear.
“To triomph isto fail”
“The last ones will be the first ones in the heave’s Kindom”
Yes… I see the paradox..but a paradox is healthy…and there cannot eternal climbing…sooner or later…the failure will come…
And thank’s god….it will.
Rosa (I like very much the work, TG…much in your surrealist-overrealist-transrealist syle)
Globalphotos, about 1 month ago
Brilliant image
guy natav, about 1 month ago
dally-like quality as far as I’d care for that
I love it.
could go to somewhere about talking your way up the ladder of success :-)
Mammalia, about 1 month ago
AWESOME creativity ToastedGhost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mammalia
Pamela B, about 1 month ago
Excellent work here! Your portfolio is so intriguing and intellectual! Bravo!
Laurie Search, about 1 month ago
Wow, amazing!!!
Saulite2, about 1 month ago
It is scary ! I am afraid of falling!
madpussy, 20 days ago
oh goodness! this reminds me of when I was a dentalnurse. I was fired for daydreaming and sucking up an old man tonsils with the salivia vacuum. its a great image. great to see such good ideas!
StarKatz, 7 days ago
LOL this is fantastic and ever so creative.. Love it!