Repenting - Anthony Falbo

I ran across this painting while browsing Falbo's website and found it striking, devestatingly sad. It is the type of hopelessness one feels about young people dying, wasted youth, senseless. The type of sadness that makes you wonder if there is a God.

It also reminds me of I think the greatest love story of Greek Mythology - Orpheus and Eurydice.

Here is the son of Apollo who convinced the Gods of his love for his young wife, Eurydice, who was killed by a bite on the heel by a serpant. He was devestated. He was allowed to go into the underworld, Hades, and pass through certain challenges inorder to bring her back on one condition, that he would not look back on her before they reached the outside.

This picture captures that feeling of lost youth, vitality and I think, love.