What's the biggest secret..... ( Archived) (29)

They say that "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree"

Not much gets past me either

And here I thought it was you who was so perfect.

I let most past me

What I had to hide was my 'art' from around the age of ten because of the very negative response from one. Anger, disbelief; yelling at me and ripping up all they saw. The 'art' was at first in cartoon form, really bad drawings of a certain person that my parents were obsessed with and I was totally ignored; basically left alone to do as I wanted. This 'art' was my way of coping with being ignored, not really cared about or what I did or where I went. The certain person became a figure that I took out all my emotions on and learned to make fun of them as they seemed to regard that person as something "sacred". That person was all they could talk about even when their friends or work colleagues came over for visits.
As the years passed that resent,eat and anger matured into good art but had a much harder edge to the poking fun at, mocking them and disparaging them in everyday possible. The art stayed well hidden and was never found. No one ever knew. It then became my way of entertaining myself when bored or stressed. I never gave it up and never, ever showed a living soul because of who that person was and caused such adverse and sometimes violent reactions from people, both 'pro and con'. It was only several years ago that I explained why I had boxes of art works packed away to one of my children and finally unpacked most of my drawings. In today's world they would be classed as 'political' in the extreme and most likely as hilarious by many. As present circumstances go, I'd consider them worth publishing, but with absolutely no contacts to that world, I at times still do the drawings out of habit and black humour. Forget the internet; I can live very well without all the hell those drawing would cause and the negative publicity that would ensue. It simply would not be worth it.