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Destiny of Vasilisa (Васили́са Прекра́сная) (April 11, 2020)
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What’s hidden in your sleeves, Vasilisa ?
I saw you elsewhere. Once upon a time.
Keep silent.
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I once did a series dedicated to three iconic fairytales, it was about webs, ashes and shades of weather and time. It was about a magic carpet dreamed on a walk towards a volcano. About gold and gems, flowers caught in stained glass. In this initiatic journey, she was a shape shifter, she had many names, Arachnée, Cendrillon, Peau d’Âne. She was also another, une altra Aënor, a queen above clouds.
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Una altra Aënor (April 16, 2020) (with closeups)
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It took me more than two years to complete this piece. Initially, the face was just a dark shadow, bare. Now, the warrior with a blossoming sword wears a helmet of many masked eyes.
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The Royal Road (July 1, 2020)
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Et puis peut-être faut-il se souvenir que les auteurs de ces lignes et tracés, ici ou là, entendent le lyrisme en son sens musical et diffus, et non comme l’expression d’un donné personnel de confessionnal.
On éviterait ainsi …
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And yet, the Ghost of Lamentendus cries her cold misty tears at every window.
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Begging for
Begging
Heart and Soul.
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Summer Snow In Lamentendus (August 19, 2020)
by ©️ sophiE D. S. wright - alias MâOphélie
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Under the Tree of Pearls (August 26, 2020) (with closeups)
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And if they do not see you
Who will sail beyond
Wishing not to be shed
Naked as tears
A vague smile flowering instead
(The Tales of The Kitsune Ghost)
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Et s’ils ne te voient pas
Que tu soies au-delà
Nue du désir des pleurs
Au sourire vague qui affleure
(Les dits du Fantôme Kitsune)
Alchemy - Within & Beyond (September 9, 2020)
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Libellule (September 6, 2020)
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This is a lullaby, a ballet of dragonflies, of ondines, and a mysterious hand, with superfluous words :
{la libellule est un bijou
qui ne tient qu’à un fil
elle est menue chimère
de perles d’eau douce
miroir à ondines
Ses ailes légères sur le textile enfui
insensible au froid qui neige du cheveu
elle inachève une dormance embrassée
et murmure un songe à l’oreille … }
©️sophia D. S. wright (September 2020)
https://youtu.be/2_t5x9Xk5ss
She stood at the windy window,
Yseut of the Fair Hair.
One golden thread only flew by the Sea
For the King with Horse’s Ears.
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And This Is How It Unfolds … (Tristania Project) (September 10, 2020)
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A Pale Blue Wish (September 11, 2020) (with closeup)
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Initially, one flower only.
A strange one, always daydreaming,
Casting love spells …
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Tenderness (September 12, 2020)
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Love At Her Fingertips - Rusalka (September 18, 2020) (with closeup)
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Sublimation (September 27, 2020) (with closeup)
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Last year, in August, I wrote : ‘I started this piece a year ago… thought it was finished. As often, this was a ghost destined to haunt me… It kept me awake all night, dark circles under three pairs of eyes …’
And I knew something was still unfolding … So, this is it.
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Sweet thing
In the likeness
Of a mortal one
She is a ghost
Living In A Pixie Dream
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Pixie Dream (December 1st, 2020) (with closeup)
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Fleur de neige
Au cœur du gel
Ainsi ne dépose nulle empreinte
Mais se mire
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Et ce reflet abyme
S’attarde comme une ombre déliée
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Une aile charbon à son œil
Et rouges baisers.
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Ondine (January 26, 2021) (with closeup)
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the psychology behind cutting your hair
my hair is living - like overgrowth on a grave cinnamon wine cleans my eyes foxglove stare the perfume veering wildly in my bedroom the mirror complicates my reflection and reminds me of a necklace in the silver coffer that lays forgotten i'm wearing you around my neck today you're etched into my soul the same overplayed CD i carved your name in each petal of my rose a white rose from adam she drunkenly takes off her top and poses in the mirror devoted to neurosis far too young to live the lamppost that forgets to turn off fresh air trapped between two blades so blunt, so dull she tattoos herself to never go out again barbed wire, northern lights i salivate salvation backing away from the mirror, my feet tremble over the pile of detached hair i am fatally female
Lioness: a poem
A lioness is cool, watchful for her cubs. She is responsible, open; she cares for the orphans and works with the others. She is a fighter for the ties that bind her pack together, the ties that keep them safe.
She holds the savannah in her clean paws - or, at least, paws that are clean only when she steps in a puddle. Smart, collected; she knows her high-up place as one who belongs. She belongs because her job is to control her own fate. She does it well.
The lioness is part of the power, demos, and one of the people, kratos. The lioness is fair, free, and roars as she pleases, because all are protected, all are loved, in her savannah home.
Or at least, that's what she strives for.
Snake: a poem
A snake is coiled, lying in wait. He is buying his time with the coins he stole from dead men's pockets. A snake is vicious, his little fangs biting off what he can chew only with a spoonful of shamelessness. He has learned to be soft and secret until the time is ripe to speak his bloated mind.
A snake has thick skin - until someone flips him belly up, and he wails like a child, and sends out his fangs like a thing gone wild.
Pablo Neruda said, "Hatred grows scale on scale..." And the snake has scales as sharp as slate. He rattles his tail, but by then it's too late.
Madness rules, and the snake is free.
Extra in regards to The Flaw in Every Crystal Chapter 15
I now realized (well actually last night in the shower) that it could be that the harsh white light is to symbolize how much harsher things will be for Jazz from here on out. Whereas before he was trapped in darkness which is scary in how much it hides and how mentally scarring it can be. And heh, Jazz was “in the dark” about his situation. Anyway, darkness can be a great many things but in all my reading I have never come across a “harsh” darkness. Instead darkness is described more as soft or suffocating like a heavy blanket at worst. Light on the other hand can be considered harsh and leave no ability to hide.
So yeah, realized this and didn’t want to edit the earlier post so here’s an extra.
Dashing Youth ring-related musings
There is no question that Dashing Youth loves its rings. The indulgent ways the camera lingers on them is most prominent in the case of Zhuo Qing and Xiao Zhongjing, but there are other ring-wearers in the show, such as Xiao Xie, Master Tu, and Yan Bietian. Unsurprisingly, considering what rings (particularly thumb rings) tend to symbolize, the thing they all have most in common is their power and/or wealth. There are possibly deeper connections to be drawn between these characters, but I thought I’d focus on sharing my discoveries on the materials Zhuo Qing’s and Xiao Zhongjing’s are likely composed of.
My initial thoughts were along the lines of black jade for Zhuo Qing’s and carnelian for Xiao Zhongjing. However, in my search for similar rings online, I found that, among other colors, agate can come in black and red. Carnelian seems to often be compared to red agate, so my guess may not have been far off. Individually, the symbolism of carnelian and black jade likely fit the two characters a bit better, though them wearing the same type of stone could be seen as representing unification in their relationship.
Notable in this respect is their sun-and-moon symbolism, where Zhuo Qing is heavily associated with the Moon in terms of aesthetics and scene framing/transitions. Associating Xiao Zhongjing with the Sun isn’t a far leap, particularly considering the plaque hanging in Zhuo Qing’s hall, as well as the gold Xiao Zhongjing wears and the power he holds as emperor. The ring colors reinforce these associations, red-orange for the warmth of sunlight and black for the cold of the night.