One of the strongest and intense emotions, fortunately rare, is despair. It arises in two distinct yet interconnected situations: the loss of what we have and the realization, with mature awareness, that things we believe we can control and obtain follow a path beyond our will to act upon them. The illusion of control, negated by reality, falsely ties our existence to perceptions beyond our limits. What madness if we lacked the meager talent to forget our impending demise? We would perish from despair.

Despair, pure and raw, grips us when things go awry. We lose all we hold dear—friends, possessions, and ultimately, the love for someone close. I've depicted this restless manifestation of our inner world by crafting a highly stylized and abstracted face, crumbling under the intensity of the emotion it expresses. The scene is dynamic, the face fragmenting in all directions, losing touch with its human nature, transfiguring into forms beyond comprehension. Features dissolve, replaced by raised lines and vibrant colors, imparting an electrifying and ephemeral effect. The background, heavily distorted and blurred in places, appears as the stage for a tremendous energy, as if subject to an unimaginable explosion—the release of pent-up anger and associated negative emotions, dissolving matter, radiating into space in a myriad of irregular colors and shapes in motion.

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Size: 5000x 5000 pixels

Resolution: 4K