Thureann

30s - Irish - London

[darkly-desire]

[miamaimania]

Embrace ~ (Unknown Location) (Unknown Year) by Unknown Artist — A minimalist line drawing of two figures in an embrace.

[randomfoggytiger]

April 17, 2020: Early on in my development as a photographer, I self-assigned a project to photograph the same person once a week for a year. The idea was to push the point of view of the photographer while the subject stays the same. This idea was one of the key building blocks in my developing my photographic style.⠀ ⠀ I was lucky to collaborate with an acting student from @DePaulU whom I met at a local coffee shop. Her name is @gilliana, and I will share a few of our images made together for the next few posts. This image was made with my 8X10 #Deardorff camera with a #Kodak Portrait lens. The light was an 11-inch reflector with a grid attached using #Speedotron strobes. I created this in the studio using color negative film.

April 18, 2020: This image is from my year-long project with @Gilliana outlined in the prior Instagram post.⠀ I was very much interested in the contact sheet as final art. Thus, I planned out the shooting sequence in which to make a single image appear in the correct order. I shot this in my studio using a #Hasselblad 500CM fitted with extension tubes to aid the #150mm lens to focus closer to the subject. The final was printed on traditional black and white silver paper toned in a custom #sepia tone that I created

April 19, 2020: This image is from my year-long project with @Gilliana outlined prior on IG.⠀ ⠀ I was very lucky that in addition to having wonderful acting skills in front of the camera, Gillian additionally had impeccable taste in her personal style of dress. I leaned on her a lot to bring clothes to use in the project. I have always had a soft spot for vintage hats.⠀ ⠀ This image was made with my 8X10 #Deardorff camera with a #Kodak Portrait lens. The light was an 11-inch reflector with a grid attached using #Speedotron strobes.

April 22, 2020: This is one of my favorite images from my year-long project @Gilliana. For me, the beauty of this frame is the addition of a tear on the edge of her eye. You can see in this frame; the tear is forming in her eye but I caught the frame before the tear dropped. Gillian had amazing control of her being and could take direction to reach any emotional level. It was a true pleasure to collaborate with her!⠀ ⠀ Because all of these images are analog, I have yet to have them all scanned. Hopefully this year I will post more.⠀ ⠀ This photo was made with my 8X10 #Deardorff camera with a #Kodak Portrait lens. The light was an 11-inch reflector with a grid attached using #Speedotron strobes.

April 23, 2020: Again, from my year-long @Gilliana project I am sharing a different tear image than I discussed earlier. I was always very interested in exploring a wide range of both photographic visual treatments and human emotions during this project. Because Gillian had amazing control of her being she could take direction to reach any emotional level. If needed I could ask her to tear up anytime it seemed appropriate.⠀ ⠀ This image was made with my 8X10 #Deardorff camera and my usual #Kodak Portrait lens. I used the same lighting as several other images which was an 11-inch reflector with a grid attached using #Speedotron strobes.

April 24, 2020: This image is the last image for now from my year-long project with @gilliana outlined prior on IG.⠀ ⠀ Like I mentioned earlier, Gillian had amazing hats. I like working with a hat because it often brings the focus of the image into the eyes of the person being photographed. Gillian’s command of connecting with the camera is unparalleled.⠀ ⠀ This image was shot with a #Hasselblad 500 CM and an 80mm lens. It was shot on what the studio called the “Lunar Backdrop”. The Lunar backdrop is one of the many I created early in my career. Painting backdrops was how I made money to really get my studio rolling. The lighting is a 11-inch reflector with a grid and a diffusion panel powered by a Speedotron power pack and head.

Photography courtesy of paul_elledge.

[volpeantica]

These are wonderful. I know that GA is always said to possess "flawless beauty", but I think her beauty is spectacular not because it is "flawless" but because it is unconventionally singular -- and all the small "flawed" details of her face make a perfect, harmonious, heart-breaking ensemble (true beauty runs deep and is expressive and mysterious and the promises of secrets intrigue and touch us). The shape of her lips is peculiar. She might have a slight overbite (?), which a dentist today might probably suggest she'd correct. Her classic, elegant nose is something a woman striving for symmetric beauty might feel she has to "fix".

Beauty touches us when the eye has something to stumble upon, the deligt of a small imperfection; when we see there is a soul behind it. We're losing all this with the wish for superficial "perfection", conventional attractiveness. Is there anything more boring or empty than a flawless face with nothing behind?

All this is true for DD/Mulder's face, too. Nothing about his face is flawless. Everything together is a thing of unimagined, unique beauty.

[lisaaolivia]

nightingale

[gacougnol]

Gérard Renoncé

Rue à Saint Brieuc, France

[giveherswords]

summer shapes

[thureann]

The car′s on fire and there's no driver at the wheel

And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides

And a dark wind blows

The government is corrupt

And we′re on so many drugs

With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine

And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down

And the billboards are all leering

And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

It went like this:

The buildings tumbled in on themselves

Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble

And pulled out their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fire

All twisted metal stretching upwards

Everything washed in a thin orange haze

I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful -

These are truly the last days"

You grabbed my hand and we fell into it

Like a daydream or a fever

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down -

For sure it′s the valley of death

I open up my wallet

And it′s full of blood

[thureann]

What I wouldn't give to have someone I love lying with me right now, listening to my favourite moody jazz tracks, feeling this nice night time breeze on our skin while I trace my fingers around her soft skin and lull her to a blissful sleep.

I can feel a shift. Today I received something that is very symbolically important to me;

a piece of an iron meteorite, itself quite possibly older than the earth at 4.5 billion years old. The grain pattern on it, called a Widmanstatten pattern, can only occur in iron nickel meteorites cooling at 1 degree per million years in deep space. It is, to me, a visual example of early complexity in the universe, of a demiurgic prison-like "force" attempting to draw bars on entropy. The Horrible Machine.

This one fell to earth and someone cut it up into a necklace, and it sits on my chest, floating on my breath and heartbeat like a little raft at sea.

[thureann]

[spinmeround]

Lera Lynn

[rahlasitgets]

[diaryofarose]

on the pedestal

[worldofatom]

Model Kaede photo Atomrubber @worldofatom Catsuit by Atomrubber

[7pleiades7]

Captives, (Detail), (1887), by Arthur Trevethin Nowell (British-Welsh, 1862 – 1940), oil on canvas, 101.5 x 126.5 cm. (40 x 49.8 in.), Private Collection

[thureann]

[laudys83]

I cried so hard when he died

[velvetmasonry]

Sleeping Hermaphroditus (The Borghese Hermaphrodite) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1620