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...I remembered we needed to heat the oven and start cooking! So I had to ask someone to put the vegetables in the oven and explain about temperature and putting in olive oil and rosemary and such-like all while tied up on the floor. It was quite a funny scene.
I had been interested in bondage as a beautiful aesthetic and in its physical sense for a while so I thought it would be interesting to try to use it as a theme for a set. Maybe you can see what I was building up to in these previous sets now?
I'm glad that people liked the introduction too, it is taken from William Blake's Proverbs of Hell from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs: thinking that as the sayings used in a nation, mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell, shew the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.
When I came home; on the abyss of the five senses, where a flat sided steep frowns over the present world. I saw a mighty Devil folded in black clouds, hovering on the sides of the rock, with corroding fires he wrote the following sentence now percieved by the minds of men, & read by them on earth.
How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?
In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Blake created a grand image in which conventional moral structures are rejected, good and evil depolarized and a deliberately unified vision of the cosmos expressed. The material world and the world of physical desires become equally part of the divine order. Thus, a marriage of heaven and hell. I think I might be getting a bit carried away! I talk a lot of rubbish sometimes. I didn't actually have this poem in mind when we were making the set but I realised afterwards that this conclusion of the proverbs worked nicely as an expression of how I feel about the senses, desire and physical pleasure and equally about the expression of all of these things -
The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet Proportion.
As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.
The crow wish'd every thing was black, the owl, that every thing was white.
Exuberance is Beauty.
If the lion was advised by the fox. he would be cunning.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
Where man is not, nature is barren.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.
Enough! or Too much.
Here is a a beautiful drawing that etchasketch did for me from one of the pictures from the set-
While I'm not working at the moment, I have been learning to use watercolours
Practicing lots of yoga
(Looking like a funny creature)
And finding beautiful antique natural history books in the library
This finally reminds me, please add me on instagram if you have one. I'm @wadingbird on there. I hope you are all doing wonderfully xxx
FEB 28, 2012 07:56 PM
I really need to read Blake.
Also, I wish you could be on the front page at least once every month. You're so beautiful. 
FEB 28, 2012 08:02 PM
I like the watercolours very much. It's such an interesting medium, I should explore it more than I have.
And congratulations on the set going front page, it was well deserved. You and Cherry have created something very beautiful and unique. You should both be proud 
FEB 28, 2012 08:33 PM
Thank you for sharing your Instagram. Followed 
You have great balance btw...and great pics.
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FEB 28, 2012 10:10 PM
I would absolutely go to the Ibsen - can you believe I've only read his work, rather than actually seen it performed? But, alas, I can't just can't afford it this month 
but thank you for thinking of me, and please continue to suggest stuff. In April, The Scottish Ballet are performing Streetcar Named Desire, and I think there are some Edinburgh dates. Ju' saying x
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I'm totally in love with this set and shibari (and the beautiful creature you are). And i'm so happy than you're in Frontpage !
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FEB 29, 2012 02:08 PM
Utterly stunning set, I may have said that already but it bears repeating. I love the soft bondage too, so beautiful - been far too long since I indulged in that world. I do simple yoga for stretches before I exercise, but it would be hilarious to try the more complex stuff; I'm fairly flexible but weigh about a ton, which I can't imagine is too helpful Tomorrow I will attempt to stand on my head - if this is the last time we communicate you'll know why.
PS I didn't know you played guitar
PPS nice watercolours. More please
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