Abandon Hope

On 11|08|10 I was desperate looking for a bag covered with faux-leather inside my mom's wardrobe. Once I found the perfect bag, My mom agreed and let me to paint it but my sister didn't let me because it's hers. So, I took a bag with broken white colour. I had an idea what to paint on the bag I wanted. With this one? I was blank. So, it ended up pretty messy. I actually wanted to paint a life still but my brushes are too wide and the bag is too small. I didn't really know what the concept is. Since it's ignored, I remembered about something that is abandoned. So I wrote: "Abandon Hope" on it. I didn't mean it to be a scary bag, the red lines were meant to be the veins. But when I checked on the internet, it's actually the phrase of inscription at the entrance to hell. Maybe later I'll buy a cheap faux-leather bag. I am still obsessed painting down on this media.

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here

Meaning If you come in, be prepared for the worst. The supposed inscription at the entrance to Hell.

Origin From Dante's Divine Comedy. The 1814 translation into English by the Reverend H. F. Cary is the origin for this phrase in English, although he gave it as the less commonly used 'All hope abandon ye who enter here'.

Through me you pass into the city of woe:

Through me you pass into eternal pain:

Through me among the people lost for aye.

Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:

To rear me was the task of power divine,

Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.

Before me things create were none, save things

Eternal, and eternal I endure.

All hope abandon ye who enter here.

Such characters in colour dim I mark'd

Over a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd:

Whereat I thus: Master, these words import.

Dante Alighieri wrote this allegorical epic poem between 1306 and 1321. Virgil is the guide who takes the reader through the author's examination of the afterlife. It travels through the Inferno (Hell), the Purgatorio (Purgatory), and the Paradiso (Heaven).