A sad story about a suicidal bride

These are my drawings and paintings of a bride who has committed suicide long time ago be cause she was forced to marry a man she didn't love. She ran away from the wedding and then she has thrown herself of the rocks in a place in the Apuseni Mountain in Romania where there is a waterfall that got it's  name after this tragedy. 

She wanted to die be cause she could not accept a life next to that man. How could she spend the rest of her life next to him. Marriage and family was like a prison to her and she had no place to escape. If she ran away where she could go? There was no place for her in this world. 

Death was her only choice.

Unfortunately she was not  the only one. In Romania's history there are many young women who were forced into marriage and had no other choice than suicide.I'ts terrible to have no choice and death was the only thing this girls could choose. 

At Slanic Prahova there was another bride who has committed suicide.

If I lived in those times I would have done the same thing and I am happy I (still) live in a free world and I can work. 

I can't imagine my life next to a man.

Women in the past had terrible lives and I cry when I thing about their sad stories.

Even today women face discrimination and there a many women who get married for money houses and other things they are not allowed to get by their work and end up in miserable lives.

Here in Romania I've never seen a successful business woman or a woman with an important function who has never had a husband/boyfriend and I wonder why. There are women who pretend to be successful career women but they all have boyfriends or husbands with greater business or key jobs behind while all the single women I know have no job or in the happiest case they work hard 24/7 just to pay their bills and keep themselves at the lowest survival line, not to get rich.  It is not be cause women are inferior by their nature as many guys say, it's be cause they face discrimination all the time and society doesn't allow them to be really independent. When women reach key jobs or have a business that apparently works it's be cause they are in a relationship with an rich influent man not be cause their work or intelligence is appreciated,  A woman's profesional succes here in Romania depends on the men she has relationships with and that's why you will never see a single woman or a lesbian with an important well paid job or a successful business.  

I hope history will not repeat and I hope things will change and women will get more power and independence.

Even today there are places where women have no right to decide for their own lives and that makes me sad.

Bride and waterfall

According to a romanian legend in the Apuseni mountain in Romania there is a waterfall where a bride commited suicide be cause she was forced to marry a man she didn't love. This is my oil on canvas painting of the unhappy bride

Sad bride, pencil drawing

This is my pencil drawing of a bride who is sad and wants to commit suicide be cause she was forced to marry a man she doesn't love

Bride, a painting abot marriage and family

This is my oil on canvas painting about what defines a bride, a future mother carring a baby under her dress. This is what people get married for, to give life, to become parents and raise their children.

My wedding dream

People in Romania have a superstition. They say that dreaming yourself as a bride is not a good sign. I remember long time ago I had this dream. I dreamed myself wearing a bridal dress and the woman who is almost always with me in my dreams even if I've never meet her was next to me. I dreamed I married her.  These days I've made the drawing above remembering this dream

White pure love or a bride in the wedding night

I've made this painting starting from an older painting, a painting I've made 10 years ago, a painting of a dream of love in white, the color of purity. I still have that painting and I cannot drop it to the trash can be cause even if it is not a masterpiece it means so much to me be cause it brings back the feeling I had when I've made it and I can see more in this painting than someone else, I can see the image that was there in my mind when I've made it, a beautiful young lady standing naked in a white bed with flowers all around her and sweet cream on her breast waiting to be kissed softly a delicate bride in her wedding night, so beautiful, so sensual, it makes me want to be there next to her. I wish she was my bride

Winter bride

Sad bride

Sad bride, painting

This is my painting of a bride who is sad be cause she had to marry a man she doesn't love. She is looking back at the love she had to leave behind and crying. Unfortunately many women were forced into marriage in the past and even now there are places in this world where women cannot live their lives the way they want to. There were long periods of time when women had no right to decide about their own life and no freedom to choose. They were sold and used like objects or animals, used for procreation and raped by the men they were forced to live their lives with. Some of these brides committed suicide while others lived a life of misery and sadness. I start being sad to when I thing how sad it was the life of a woman in the past.