Well, unfortunately after the original picture was up for 9 months, it was sadly removed by an AW moderator.

I have lost all of the wonderful comments for this piece and this saddens me. I appreciate everyone who supported my original piece, THANK YOU!!

It is taking all I have, not go on a rant a mile long concerning censorship. Fine, censor and restrain my creativity (at least try), but at least give me a few minutes to fix the situation before you just rip it out of my portfolio. I lost so many page views and comments when I really didnt need to.

It is truly sad that beautiful artwork has to be censored because a small group may be offended. What about the larger group who is offended by the smaller groups need to control and push their beliefs onto others?

Anyway, I guess I just have to let it go, move on, and keep working on my personal website (which will be available very soon!).

UPDATE! I now have the original posted on my site: www.valarieconnell.com