Just lovely. I keep looking. Your body is a wordless delight that evokes words: elegant, posed, attractor, slide, palm, subjectivity. Monochrome brings into sharp relief shadows with puzzling origins. A Michel Tournier quotation is apropos. He said this about what is revealed by photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri’s choice to make black and white images, focusing on a single term, disruptively borrowed from a field where it means far less:
“One word comes to mind, a ponderous, awkward term derived from Christian theology: consubstantiality. Indeed, it is evident that these sands and these stretches of ground, the baobab woods, the chameleons’ scales, the lacquered plumage of the ibis, the crocodiles’ claws, the smooth, muscular skin of the men, all these expressions of the reality of Madagascar clearly derive from the same substance. It is easy to see that the living spring is the same for frog, bird, and woman. All has been sculpted on the same day, formed out of the same matter, inspired with the same breath of life. ¶ Black-and-white photography throws an admirable light on this consubstantiality of barks, skins, hides, and scales.”
In these two monochrome photos, @marysweet, your living body with all its sexual allure is revealed as consubstantial with everything else — ground, grass, panties, blanket, stone, and shadow — that each image visibly portrays.
WOW! This is a huge compliment! I'll be sure to share this with my photographer as well. He does a fabulous job in capturing any ideas I have, and the one he brings for me to channel. 💚
I'm sure you will introduce him to us when you know the time is right.
I would love to, he is so special to me!