Anticipation: A Senior Explorations Amplified Piece by Gilles Laurent (2014)

Anticipation is the need to know something before it happens. Whether it is not knowing your results on a certain test for school, work, or cancer. It is what causes stress or anxiety in most people. A world without anticipation would make our world that much closer to perfection. Some argue that anticipation is a great part of our society and that we could not live without it. Although we cannot erase this emotion, anticipation is just another feeling that makes us human.

For the background in this piece I took a photo of a couple of roses and mirrored it across the whole art to make it look like a full bed of roses. I also drew a skeleton sitting on a guitar with a tree for his brain. The tree's trunk goes across his nose and is digging its roots through the skull and setting into his teeth. Another tree behind the skeleton is growing out of the guitar hole. A crow is resting on one of the branches and has a skeleton inside of him.