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[Xander]

The images are fine, I don't think they are too graphic for here.

They are very beautiful! I especially like the first and the last one.

[Chaos]

I like them, you have a great style going with the pastels and such. I like the dramaticness of the backgrounds, very striking.

I like Lorelei best, the colour combinations really hit out at me. These are very beautiful images.

Chaos

[Chemical]

thanks for all of your compliments.

I like the style for a couple of reasons. I kept the images arm and legless because it reminded me of those old master pieces, the classical beauties in Europe. Hence why some were named after classic masters.

I like to play with the idea of beauty and how it is fleeting. A kinda momento mori, if you will. A reminder of death. How beauty is fleeting. Also, in this particular instance I wanted to remind others that the figures in magazines (the poses were appropriated from a couple of mainstream advertisemets) are often very beautiful but at the price that they become something eternal. Like, the living dead.... in that they're altered, air brished... made fictional. So it's a cruel kind of beauty and almost surreal to a point. Perhaps even unnatainable.

That's why I played with the grotesqueness. Making some thing beautiful grotesque. It gives it a more human and a more relatable edge.

Sometimes we people, even if we are told we are beautiful or even if we seem beautiful can sometimes feel ugly. There are many reasons.... but it can also show... that sometimes when we seem or told that there is something ugly about us there is also something just really strikingly beautiful.

Like a deep beauty with in under the skin.

Mostly a ying and yang... that we ballance... that we play the role of both creatures. The frightening beauty... or the beautiful fear.