#theerotic

[cksappleton]

Those dreams where you reach out, grab, punch and the action doesn’t connect. The sensation of standing outside of yourself and watching yourself at a distance.

Pic: An experiment/ work in progress (A Show Of Hands series), 2014-2020, scanned found image. 

[gregoryhurcomb]

Starting a new series of text and photo based productions - The Erotic - with this first testament - So Rigid, The World Is - from the studio where we are deep in thought - though these are difficult to see in this format they will be around 1’-2’ vertically and 5’-7’ horizontally . . . . #studiogregoryhurcomb #theerotic #text #image #sorigidtheworldis #rigid #world #experimental #photo #art #fineart #photography #series #artphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CowC7a-OV7u/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cksappleton]

“.... when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to inform and illuminate our actions upon the world around us, then we begin to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense.”

Excerpt taken from Uses of the Erotic, Audre Lorde

[cksappleton]

Words by Cherelle Sappleton, 2020

[cksappleton]

An obvious choice for obvious reasons....

[lifeisrhythmic]

Love, Maybe by Audre Lorde

Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conquer me home