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Calamity of touch by Linda Bergkvist

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Medium: Digital
Posted: 2003-10-19
"In the dead of the night, they had surrendered to their attractions. Ivory skin to ivory skin in the darkness of the temple - lips like dew-moist petals meeting for the first time.

But their tryst did not go unnoticed - the God they both worshipped did not approve. And she, judged a seductress, was cursed.

At first, they did not know what was wrong. The first few people who succumbed to the plague went unnoticed. Then more died, and then he died... and she, a healer, fought desperately to save the others in the city. Corpse after corpse piled up, blackened skin like her grieving heart, and then one day... they were all gone. Desperate, she fled to the next city - to warn them of the plague. To warn them to flee before it would come to take them, too.

It was they, not she, that made the connection. It was they - the people of the city - that understood what was wrong when the emissaries that met with her were the first to be struck with the plague. She was cast out, spat on, and cursed by young and old alike... but not before having infected yet a city with the pestilence.

She realised then her punishment. He had merely died... she had become, instead of a healer, an infectious monster. A plague spreader. All who touched her, and talked to her, were taken by a sickness of rot and destruction.

She fled back to her fallen home, and waited there for her own demise. Little did she know then, that the God had also cursed her with eternal life. "

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Comments for this Image:

Justice Cotter
2008-08-26 wings
you have done a very good job on everything in this picture.

tamora kovacevic
2008-05-24
i really like the colours

Dorothy Siwek
2003-10-20 Harsh...
I love the colors in this picture. It looked depressing before I read the story, and its definitly depressing after. Pretty harsh punishment for the poor woman if ya ask me. Beautifully painted and written.

Marley Mcleay
2003-10-20
heh,thats actually a stunning backdrop,despite its simplicity!.lovely colours,tis rather stormy linda ;).Regardless, it has great texture for the stone formation aswell!. ~Marley

Marley Mcleay
2003-10-20
question?.was it deliberate to have the composition of the lady and the two birds form a heart shape?,it looks really good in that respect :D

Jonny Scull
2003-10-20
Absolutely beautiful.

Rebecca Schumacher Cox
2003-10-20
Wow. Your work continues to amaze and delight me...I'm looking forward to whatever book(s) you will put out with your writings and illos.

Romina Elorrieta
2003-10-20
You must post ''Songs under the apple tree''. That drawing is so amazing and this is too!!!!. Linda , you're wonderful , when will your web page be ready for the next updates?

Patrick McEvoy
2003-10-21
This piece, as is the case with much of your best work, takes me to a new place, where I am sure other people live in different ways. A fine journey.

Grant Fuhst
2003-10-21
Beautiful! A stunning piece.

Susanne Husted Nielsen
2003-10-21
This is just such a stunning picture (as is all your work), and the story adds a whole other dimension to it. It really touches my heart!

ria jem
2003-11-10
you know, there are only a few in this world that can truly make someone stop, and think for a second how much talent and beauty graces our earth, and you're one of those few people. this peice is amazing.

Irina Reichert
2004-01-08 Irina
Hello I was watching your work. I've no words ro describe what I felt... you work are georgious! no words are enought. so much feeling are coming from them. can you tell, did you study hard or it's all your talant? wish you to stay as great as you are and grow more if it's possible my mail eternal78@mail.ru

Brenda Lyons
2004-12-04
Remarkable work - the movement in the vulture's wings is very well portrayed in this piece, and the drab colors really serve to give the picture a cold, depressing feel. Also, it's intriguing that she's wearing what looks like a dancing gown.

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