And More Red
February 15, 2010
Creative inspiration: Brown Paper
January 5, 2010
symbiotic relationships – Nureyev and Fontaine
December 7, 2009
yesterday I posted an image of one of the most powerfully beautiful images of the male form. It belonged to Nureyev. What took me along that path was researhing old leather panelling. One of Nureyev’s numerous homes had a room lined out in it, very sumptous interior, exotic, lavish, just like him. i read his autobiography a couple of years ago, what a man………..
I also came across a docudrama advertised and watched it on iplayer, the relationship between himself and Margot Fonteyn. Their presence was electric, their passionate romance was clear to see in their dance, their symbiotic moves, like their relationship was as enriching for them as it was to everyone who watched them. His raw passion, his exotic background, his youth, his strength and determination fired her with a renewed vigour for her dance at a time when she was just about to retire. Nureyev said about her “At the end of Lac des Cygnes when she left the stage in her great white tutu I would have followed her to the end of the world” and he did. Margot, twenty years older and already married, their physical relationship eventually struggled and came to an end when margot made the decision to retire and nurse her then invalid husband at their Panama farm. They danced again one more time after this in 1989, when she was 69 and Nureyev 54. There emotional symbiosis lasted until she died of cancer at the the age of 72 in 1991.
Nureyev continued to be a legend in his own lifetime, his tempestous, lavish lifestyle, his amazing vitality and fame continued. However in the 80’s this began to wain, displeasing audiences with his less than perfect performances. Aids had probably began to take its toll, he denied it though and wouldn’t admit to having it right up to his death at the age of 56 in 1993 , 2 years after Margot’s death. Knowing how they lived for each other, no decisions were made without each others approval, he talked to her weekly, paid her medical bills, visited her in Panama, did he give up his fight for life after her death, could he no longer survive without her? I wonder?
If you go down to the woods today ……. dream
November 14, 2009
“The greatest achievement was at first, and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities”
James Allen (statesman)
so when you go for a walk in this deep dark woods of the soul, listen………… underfoot things are stirring.
I took creative inspiration from the quote and created this image. Its layered from photographs I have taken in nature, ferns unfurling, grasses swaying, teasels drying in the hot sun and sketches that I drew from my own souls journey .
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GUIDO ARGENTINI SILVER EDITION PHOTOS
September 7, 2009
inspiration, thanks Annie
July 30, 2009
Alice in Wonderland inspired Annie Leibovitz to come up with this image. Annie inspired me to think of this dress made of paper? Overflowing, lavish sculptural with a “life” of its own.
More images that inspire me
April 20, 2009
photographers that inspire me
April 12, 2009
marmalade and inspiration
January 2, 2009
Mmmmm, you just cannot beat it, this is how I usually start my day……….. Marmalade, the orangey sweetness with a real sharp tang of juicy seville oranges, just delicous. It needs to be spooned over lurpak slightly salted butter spread on really crunchy toast. This morning whilst sipping a large steaming cup of columbian flavours, looking out of my window I began to think about the time of year, how its a beautiful clean sheet, everything wiped clean for the year ahead……… How its time to water the growing seeds within, the creative seeds, the burgeoning strengths I have here that have been left to stagnate for many years. This year is the year they will come to the forefront of my life instead of letting them sit within the wilderness…… My interior design business is now a more balanced part of my life, I can have both ! ………. that is a good feeling. My biggest seeds of all are my two very adult children whom I love dearly, but I have so much more, my new attempts at paper cutting, photography, clay sculpture, drawing and sketching in oil pastels, writing, its all so exciting. Etsy, and new people I have met through the blog have been so inspiring to me, a big thankyou to Elsita for starting me on the road of paper, its magical. Even think I may open an Etsy shop!!
