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Wayward Sons

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: Kansas
Made: June '08
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The Odd Couple

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: Various Episodic Quotes
Made: May '08
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Dude!

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: none
Made: May '08
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Chain Reaction

Group: Dean & the YED
Text: John Farnham (modified)
Made: April '08
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ThoughtsThis wallpaper is about Dean's life, depicted as a chain of interdependent moments in time, each moment informing the next one and in their entirety they make up who and what Dean is. The formative events in his life are heteronomous, they are not within his own control, but a logical chain of events activated by the Yellow Eyed Demon and furthermore influenced by John and Sam. Whatever dreams and goals in life Dean may have harboured for himself, they were subordinated to his family’s war against the supernatural.

In my wallpaper I tried to visualise this: The YED initialises the chain of events in Dean’s life and like a falling row of dominoes they race towards the end. The dominoes fall counter-clockwise in relation to the reading flow of the caps that I chose to summarize Dean’s life. The yellow that pervades the whole piece matches the yellow in the YED eyes, symbolizing his influence on Dean’s life throughout time. There's also important symmetry in the composition: It begins with wee!Dean running out of the house, carrying his brother to safety and it ends with adult!Dean running towards his fallen brother, also wee!Dean mirrors John's hunting stance, he is sandwiched between his father's hunting life and the responsibilities for his brother.
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Watch You Go

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: Linkin Park
Made: February '08
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To Hell and Back

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: Bon Jovi
Made: December '07
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ThoughtsThis wallpaper is about Sam's willingness to open the gates of hell if necessary to pull his brother from eternal damnation. It can be seen as a positive counterpart to my 'Whatever It Takes' piece, where Sam surrenders to darkness in order to save his brother. In 'To Hell and Back' Sam's love for Dean overcomes the boundaries of dimensions, without Sam loosing himself. He's basked in white light as he reaches through the flames and holds on to his brother, who storms forward, determined to pay his debt for getting Sam's life back. It's a neverending story of love and salvation between the brothers.
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Temptation

Group: Sam & Ruby
Text: Metallica
Made: November '07
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ThoughtsThis wallpaper is about Ruby as a tempting Eve for Sam, trying to seduce him step by step over to the dark side, whispering lies to him (snake) and using Dean's deal as bait (the poisoned apple). I am immensely proud of the Ruby manipulation here, 'cause it's one of the most complex one I've ever tried! I wanted the contrast between her innocent appearance (the white dress, the light surrounding her) and the regalia of wickedness and evil (apple and snake). Sam looks skeptical but already finds himself caught in her world, without realising it.
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Don't Mess With Winchesters

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: Henriksen in 'Nightshifter'
Made: October '07
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Whatever It Takes

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: Sam in 'AHBLII' (modified)
Made: October '07
ThoughtsThis is one of the S3 themes that intrigues me a lot. Sam's determination to save Dean, come hell or high water and how far he may be willing to go, to achieve that goal. Is he willing to kill, to play with dark magic or considering to take demon deals? I always wanted to work with exclusion/difference for once and this was the perfect opportunity, displaying negative!Sam on the left, an inversion to the caring and gentle character that we know. Dean is willing to go, but Sam won't let him, possibly at the expense of his own soul.
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A Storm Is Coming

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: Bobby in 'Devil's Trap'
Made: September '07
ThoughtsThis is a S3 promotional art, that I based on my Salt'n Burn layout (Oct07). I placed Dean in the light here because he lost the burdens that weighed him down in S2, I think his smile at the end of the finale demonstrates beautifully how relieved and happy Dean is. Sam on the other hand is smack in the middle of the storm, because he got a lot of burdens handed over for S3, saving Dean's life, his own death and its consequences, his role in the demon war, as the last of the psychic children standing.
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Crossroad

Group: Sam & John
Text: 12 Stones
Made: August '07
ThoughtsThere's a lot of crossroads in the show but this piece isn't about deals being made but about the crossroad as a symbol for a parting way to give your life a new direction. Right after John's death Sam tries to cope with his grief and feelings of guilt by honoring John's legacy, dedicating himself to the hunt. He denies himself his dreams of a normal life, in order to follow the path that his father chose for him.

So I depicted the life Sam leaves behind on the one side and the path he is following at the moment on the other, John's shadow looming over him, influencing his decision. Ultimately though, Sam needs to find his own way and I hope we'll get to see that one day.
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Winchesters vs Time

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: Title
Made: July '07
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Save Me

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: Snow Patrol
Made: March '07
ThoughtsThis wallpaper was based on my Salt'n Burn layout for March 07. It was inspired by Sam's "Hope's kinda the whole point" quote at the end of 'Roadkill'. Sam is afraid to slip into darkness but has hope that Dean saves him. I wanted to show that Sam is cracking but there is light at the end of the tunnel so to speak. He still has faith!
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Where I Find Myself

Group: Dean & John
Text: Linkin Park
Made: March '07
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ThoughtsAfter John's death Dean is kind of forced into the leadership role, burdened by John's sacrifice and with the secret about Sam and he nearly buckles under the pressure during the first half of S2. But through the loss of his mentor he also learns to grow into a man of his own, basing his decisions on his own judgments, questioning and criticising his father's decisions in the process and I wanted to visualise that process in this wall.

By smashing John's reflection (questioning his father) Dean is able to find his own personality, he looks through the broken mirror only to see himself more clearly and defined. I want to emphasize that Dean doesn't destroy John himself, his father is and always will be a hero in Dean's eyes, he only smashes what John reflects back on him, the burdens and expectations he placed upon his son.
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I Am Proud Of You

Group: Dean & John
Text: John in 'In My Time Of Dying'
Made: January '07
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ThoughtsI was always very ambivalent towards John, he made me furious because of the responsibility he put on Dean's shoulders at an age so young and his tendency to be reprimanding and harsh. I never had a doubt that he loved his sons though. What made this scene so incredibly intense for me was that John made sure that his last words to his firstborn weren't only about his love for Dean as a son (which was in there as well though) but about Dean as a person.

An acknowledgement of his immense importance for this family, about the sacrifices Dean made and his steady and loyal input for Sam and John. It's an appreciation Dean needs to hear and it saddens me (and makes me mad as well, as usual with John ) that John knows that Dean needs this acknowledgement from him, more than a simple 'I love you, son', but wasn't able to give it to him when he was younger.
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The Ties That Bind

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: Sam in 'Scarecrow'
Made: December '06
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Too Late 800 | 1024

Too Late

Group: Sam & John
Text: Sam in 'ELAC'
Made: October '06
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Indestructible

Group: Dean & John
Text: Dean in 'Bloodlust'
Made: October '06
ThoughtsRe-Work July07: I wasn't very happy with the old version of 'Indestructible'. The colouring was cold and monotonous, the cap of Dean, though with the appropriate wistful expression, too bleak and the 'Hole' stock I used too dominant. So I made the colouring overall warmer, since Dean is remembering his father fondly, took an actual cap from the scene in 'Bloodlust' that the quote refers to and found a different stock to use. I simplified the split of the canvas, that separates memory from present and toned down the overall texturing.
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Unholy

Group: The Anti-Winchesters
Text: Metallica
Made: August '06
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One Friend

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: James Taylor
Made: July '06
ThoughtsWith this piece I tried something new, not only in style but also in approach. My starting point here were the lyrics of the James Taylor song, which beautifully capture the Sam/Dean relationship IMO, so this piece is mainly designed to attract the viewers attention to the text and the graphics only support the meaning of the lyrics by showing Sam and Dean going their way together
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A Brother's Advice

Group: Sam & Dean
Text: Ben Harper
Made: June '06
ThoughtsInto the background of this wallpaper I worked everything that makes Sam suffer so much, the loss of Jessica, his estrangement from his father, the ever so painful visions. In the foreground I focused on Sam's pain and on Dean, being sympathetic. Of the lyrics I think as an advise from Dean to Sam, that there is something worth living despite the pain and that's the bond between them
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Stuck In The Past

Group: Mary, John & Dean
Text: Ozzy Osbourne
Made: June '06
ThoughtsHere I chose the Ozzy Osbourne song to show how Dean is stuck in the past and can't move onwards. The lyrics really manage to capture that Dean is lost. His mother died, Sam left and Dad disappeared, leaving Dean alone and all he can focus upon is his idea of a family. I wanted to emphasize this focus by using the light beam from Dean's eyes over the words 'Road To Nowhere' to his childhood image.

He sits in the 'basement of his past' and instead of getting up the stairs and out into a possible future, he stares at the window, back at something long lost. Overall I tried to achieve the look of an worn-out photography to capture the 'past' metaphor
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Roads, Diverged

Group: Sam, Dean & John
Text: Cat Stevens
Made: May '06
ThoughtsI wanted to picture the moment Sam decides to go to college, which causes John to cut all ties with his son. The road in this instance symbolizes the distance this fight causes between these characters, the storm clouds a metaphor for their anger towards each other. Dean is caught in the middle of the people he loves the most and while John and Sam don't look back, determined to go their way, Dean although he is following John, looks back to his brother, sorrowful.