Coffee and a strange sight~
Posted: April 24, 2023 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: art, BDSM, Chelsea, coffee, D/s, dievca, High Line, Life, Monday, Morning, NYC, Photos Leave a comment
What’s with the pink tree on the High Line and 10th Avenue?
A 25-foot-tall fluorescent pink tree, a sculpture by the Swiss conceptual artist Pamela Rosenkranz, will land on New York’s High Line next April like a synthetic being, rising amid its budding-green brethren where the elevated park bridges 10th Avenue at West 30th Street. Reading as a tree (but obviously artificial), this rendition will have visceral qualities, with branches tapering into blood vessels and roots reaching over the earthen-clad plinth as though poised for flight.
“The whole tree might remind us of an organ,” said the artist, 43, who is based in Zurich and is the winner of the third High Line Plinth commission, a rotating program for monumental public artworks on view for 18 months at a time. (The first artists were Simone Leigh and Sam Durant.) Rosenkranz’s work, “Old Tree,” was selected from 80 proposals solicited from artists in 40 countries, nominated by international advisers and posted on the High Line’s website in 2020 for public feedback.
Digitally merging scans of actual trees with those of human circulatory systems and muscles, Rosenkranz fabricated an armature in metal on which she is sculpting layers of tactile polymer, tinted with pigments of vivid reddish pinks. “This color has a history of being quite attractive,” she said in an interview, “but I’m looking for a dissonance, something that also awakes or repulses.”
She was inspired by Louise Bourgeois’s monumental sculptures of spiders when designing her tree’s animated roots that appear to be scrambling from the plinth. “There’s a bit of a humoristic aspect,” she said, “as if the tree would like to leave its planter.”
From a NYT Article from Hilarie M. Sheets
Photos: dievca NYC High Line 04/2023
BDSM Home Décor (on Auction)
Posted: October 12, 2022 Filed under: Home and Garden | Tags: art, Auction, BDSM, bondage, D/s, dievca, Dominance and submission, Home Decor, Housing Works NYC, Lock, padlock, sculpture, Shopping Leave a comment
A piece of Art to show your BDSM leanings.
Perhaps a a subtle reminder to your submissive of their service to their Sir or Madame.
Sculpture Description
* Terracotta body
* Powder coated
* Unglazed
* Is not a functional padlock, is an art object
* Signed on back
* Item shows some scuffs on the bottom & dust on the top
Dimensions
5.25″ W x 5.25″ H x 1.25″ D
AUCTION ENDS on 10/23/2022 at 10PM EDT – offered at HousingWorks (click the red word)
Well, that’s mouthful!
Posted: August 8, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: art, BDSM, butt, cappuccino, coffee, D/s, dievca, Humor, Love, Monday, Morning, Sexy, submissive, thong Leave a comment
Looks like you would have to be left-handed to come at this the right way. XO
Birth of the Pearl – a Bodystocking
Posted: July 21, 2022 Filed under: lingerie | Tags: art, BDSM, Bodystockings, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, Fashion History, Presentation Outfit, Sexy, Shopping, submissive, Undergarments Leave a comment
A bodystocking or body stocking is a one-piece skin-tight garment that covers the torso, legs and sometimes the arms of the wearer. It is a foundation garment or an article of lingerie usually made from a sheer fabric similar to that used for stockings or pantyhose, or from fishnet, lace or an opaque material, or a variation of these materials.
A bodystocking differs from a unitard, which is worn as an outfit or article of clothing, and a leotard, which is used as a practice garment or performance costume for acrobats, gymnasts and other similar performers. Designed to be revealed, but not to be too revealing, bodystockings may be worn as undergarments by performers such as belly dancers and exotic dancers.
Bodystockings are put on through the neck, in a similar technique to putting on a pair of tights.
Due to its design, and its close-fitting and one-piece aspect, the wearer may have to remove the bodystocking in order to urinate or defecate, but crotchless bodystockings are available.
History:
The first notable occasion of a bodystocking being seen was with American actress Adah Isaacs Menken, who wore a bodystocking in 1861. It was during the play Mazeppa, based on Byron’s “Mazeppa”, in which she played a Ukrainian man who was tied nude to the back of a wild horse by his enemies. In the scene Menken wore a flesh colored bodystocking to preserve her modesty while giving the illusion of nudity. The practice created controversy.
A body stocking was used in a tableau vivant style short film The Birth of the Pearl (1901), which featured an unnamed long-haired young model wearing a flesh-colored body stocking in a direct frontal pose and provided a provocative view of the female body. An ode to the Birth of Venus.
Your Master or Mistress may see you nude on any occasion they choose – so perhaps a Bodystocking can be enticing as a Presentation Outfit.
A “Thank You” to Wiki and to the Library of Congress.
Miss May with Al Moore
Posted: May 7, 2022 Filed under: Discussion, Entertainment | Tags: 1950's, Al Moore, art, BDSM, calendar, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, Hisotry, May, Pin-Up, submissive Leave a comment
Born in Illinois, AI Moore played college football at Northwestern University and professional football with the Chicago Bears. After attending classes at Chicago’s Art Institute and Academy of Art, he opened a commercial art studio in New York in the late 1930s. By the mid-1940s, his clients included major companies like Galey and Lord, Beauty Counselors, the Viscole Corporation, and Champion Spark Flags.
During the war years, Moore painted posters for the government and also took on assignments from Gold cigarettes, Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, and Collier’s.
Advertising work for U.S. Rubber, Nash automobiles, and Coca-Cola led, in 1946, to Moore’s breakthrough assignment – he was chosen by Esquire to replace Alberto Vargas, the most popular pin-up artist of the day. Among Moore’s triumphs at the magazine was his creation of the Esquire Girl, his answer to the Varga Girl; the 1948 Esquire calendar (with Ben-Hur Baz and others); front covers in 1948 and 1949; and the rare honor of painting the entire 1949 and 1950 calendars himself. By 1950, his two-page gatefolds in Esquire were collected by millions of Americans.
Moore contributed four pinups and a centerfold print to Brown & Bigelow’s Ballyhoo Calendar for 1953, which was as huge a success as the work of Gil Elvgren for the previous year’s calendar. In the 1950s, his corporate clients included contemporary Munsingwear, Hertz Rent-a-Car, and the McGregor Corporation. During the same years, his illustrations appeared in American Magazine, Woman’s Home Companion, McCall’s, and Woman’s Day, and he painted several front covers for The Saturday Evening Post. As an active member of the Society of Illustrators, Moore was asked to paint the poster for the society’s 1959 exhibition; it was such a success that both Pan American Airlines and Germaine Monteil Perfume also commissioned posters for their national marketing campaigns.
When photographs started to replace artwork in magazines and advertising, Moore decided to retire and pursue fine-art painting, including portrait commissions, Shortly after he moved to Crawford, Colorado, he accepted a commission from the United States Olympic Committee for three paintings for their world headquarters that would call attention to the problem of illegal steroid use by athletes.
Al Moore biography borrowed from The Great American Pin-Up by Charles G Martignette & Louis K Meisel.
A HUGE “Thank You” to the ThePin-UpFiles.
Singing in the Rain!
Posted: April 20, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment | Tags: art, BDSM, D/s, dievca, Elegant, graffiti, Ice Skating, Life, Love, NYC, video Leave a comment
Photo: NYC Midtown 04/2015
And dievca’s favorite version of Singing in the Rain featuring Kurt Browning!
a fresh pair
Posted: April 12, 2022 Filed under: Clothing | Tags: art, BDSM, D/s, dievca, Jeans, laser design, Life, pants, Shopping, submissive 2 Comments
AHLUWALIA
Priya Ahluwalia , the young London-born designer of Nigerian-Indian heritage, is helping push the fashion industry towards a more sustainable future with her eco-conscious designs.
Conceived as a continuation of her MA project, the University of Westminster graduate launched Ahluwalia in 2018 with the intention of creating menswear garments out of vintage and second-hand clothing. Gaining industry-wide recognition and winning the 2019 H&M Design Award, Ahluwalia is representative of a new generation of forward-thinking designers seeking to challenge the status quo by engaging ever-more sustainable approaches to garment manufacturing. Influenced by her cultural heritage.
Ahluwalia is heavily inspired by the silhouettes family members wore in the 1990s. Embodying a nostalgic tinge, Ahluwalia is an amalgamation of sportswear, knitwear, and fine tailoring. Each piece, by the very nature of its fabrication, is unique: jackets, hoodies, sweaters, lounge pants, and shorts feature paneled and asymmetric constructions, mismatched fabrics, and juxtaposing pattern combinations. By giving unwanted, discarded, and forgotten items a second life, Ahluwalia sheds light on the potential for an ever-more ethically motivated fashion industry—one that does not have to forgo innovation in order to exemplify responsibility.
Moving into the new week~
Posted: April 11, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: art, BDSM, cappuccino, coffee, D/s, dievca, Humor, lack of sleep, Life, Monday, Morning, Taxes Leave a comment
There might be a lack of sleep, but the Taxes are complete (and accepted)!
Dipping my tootsies!
Posted: March 25, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: art, BDSM, beach, D/s, dievca, Florida, graffiti, Humor, Life, Pink Flamingos, Sun, travel, weekend Leave a comment
Completely appropriate for traveling to the Beach this weekend!
Photo: dievca Chelsea Sidewalk NYC 3/2022
a slice of NYC
Posted: February 12, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: art, BDSM, D/s, dievca, graffiti, Life, Midtown West, NYC, photo Leave a comment
Not quite sure what the graffiti is depicting – but its adorning a Midtown West abandoned building.
Photo: dievca NYC Midtown West 02/2022
Perseverance
Posted: December 19, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Poetry | Tags: art, BDSM, ChungKing, D/s, dievca, Elegant, Emotions, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jane Dickson, Life, Love, music 3 Comments
We have not wings, we cannot soar;
But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy summits of our time.
The mighty pyramids of stone
That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,
When nearer seen and better known,
Are but gigantic flights of stairs.
The distant mountains, that uprear
Their solid bastions of the skies,
Are crossed by pathways that appear
As we to higher levels rise.
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Success
(from The Ladder of St. Augustine)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), American poet and educator.
Etching: Jane Dickson
(American b. 1952)
Stairwell, 1984
dievca won an auction and became the lucky owner of Jane Dickson’s Stairwell.
What she sees in it is perseverance.
Art speaks in different ways – another person recommended the song “Following” by ChungKing to be played while viewing the etching for a different perspective.
http://youtu.be/aX-6mzf79js
Bondage through another’s eyes – 3 pieces of Man Ray
Posted: October 30, 2021 Filed under: Analysis, Entertainment, Relationships | Tags: art, BDSM, bondage, dievca, Dominant, Elegant, erotic, Fetish, Muse, photography, submissive 2 Comments
Artist and photographer, Man Ray, made several sadomasochistic photos in his career in the 1920s and 1930s. He was a devotee to the works of the Marquis de Sade, and created portraits of the Marquis. Man Ray was one of many artists seeking truth through extreme mental and physical states.
Man Ray’s 1930 Gloved Figure exemplifies the relationship between sadomasochism and mysticism. The photograph features a figure clad in suede elbow-length gloves, and a matching suede mask. The mask and gloves have been carefully constructed out of the same light-coloured suede material and appear to fit snugly over the model’s face and hands, suggesting that they were made specifically for this shoot based on the model’s exact measurements. The model’s hands are pulled above their head and are attached to a metal chain hanging from the ceiling with a pair of handcuffs. The model is clearly in the masochistic position, their sense of sight and hearing deprived by the mask and their ability to move severely, if not completely, hindered by the handcuffs and chain, which leaves them seemingly suspended from the ceiling.
Man Ray made a strong connection between artistic prowess and masculine prowess, specifically power over women; the bohemian machismo.
Created in 1930, the Fetishistic Mise-en-scène for William Seabrook series was considered so perverse it was only widely released to the public in 1994. As the title suggests, the series was created by Man Ray at the request of Seabrook. They worked together to bring Seabrook’s fantasies to life, male voyeurism and the fetishization of lesbianism for male pleasure.
Man Ray doesn’t seem entirely comfortable with Seabrook’s world, hence the less intimate cropping. He seems to prefer his sadism to be spontaneous outbursts of passion, not the meticulously planned, “perverse” scenarios of Seabrook.
A "Thank You" to Man Ray, Audrey Warne. Peter Tupper
Joy at FIT – Chalk Murals 2021
Posted: October 26, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Fashion, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: art, BDSM, D/s, dievca, Fashion Institute of Technology, graffiti, Joy, Life, Love, NYC, Photos Leave a commentThe Chalk Murals are up and running at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology).
A piece of Joy to see on the walk home from reselling clothing.
~Click the pictures to see details~
Enjoy!
“Where does an 800-pound gorilla sit?” [“Anywhere it wants to.”]
Posted: February 7, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: art, awareness, BDSM, Chelsea, D/s, dievca, Hudson Yards, NYC, photo, sculpture, submissive, Winter Leave a comment
Photo: dievca Hudson Yards NYC 02/2021
To raise awareness and funds for the critically endangered gorilla species, public artists Gillie and Marc Schattner have created a massive sculpture of the animal that arrived in Hudson Yards’ Bella Abzug Park. Titled King Nyani, Swahili for ‘gorilla’, it’s the world’s largest bronze gorilla sculpture and can fit two to three humans just in its hands.
A lovely breakfast with that Morning Cappuccino!
Posted: September 14, 2020 Filed under: Entertainment, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: art, BDSM, Breakfast, coffee, D/s, dievca, Food, Life, Love, Morning, NYC, photo, submissive Leave a comment
Il Piccolo Ristoro Cafe in Chelsea serves a nice breakfast in the garden.
A lovely garnish to an excellent Cappuccino!
Plus, some Tootsie Pop Art to remind dievca of her Dad.
Lovely Morning!
Photos: dievca NYC Chelsea Neighborhood 09/2020
…and the results of the COVID-19 test are….
Posted: June 23, 2020 Filed under: Analysis, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: antibody testing, art, BDSM, COVID-19, D/s, dievca, Health, Hudson Yards, Life, photo Leave a commentA quick recap:
dievca tried to get a COVID-19 antibody test the morning after the riots started in NYC. she walked to three midtown urgent care centers and they were all closed. Apparently, the decision to close was made that morning for workers’ safety – it wasn’t known to dievca at 8 am. Then she drove 2000 miles, roundtrip to her Mother.
dievca was finally was able to get an antibody test last week and play detective when she scheduled an appointment at the NY.gov temporary tent medical center in her neighborhood. On her walk to have blood drawn she ran into some new park artwork:
The COVID-19 antibody test came back negative. That means that her co-worker who ended up with a positive test did not get sick at work, they picked up the virus in Queens.
PS. she’s not planning on kissing the Frog Prince with COVID-19 lurking about~
Photos: dievca NYC Hudson Yards 06/2020
Greenleaf Classics
Posted: January 8, 2020 Filed under: Entertainment, Vintage | Tags: art, BDSM, books, D/s, dievca, erotic, Fetish, History, Kink, Sex, smut 1 Comment
Paperback Sex Novels –
what Kindle manages to hide.
The Artwork is Classic.
dievca is not too sure about the storylines. If you are humored here is the link to the website which has documented these …. lost classics.
Altos dos Moinhos – cheeky graffiti
Posted: August 14, 2019 Filed under: Entertainment, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: Altos dos Moinos, art, BDSM, D/s, dievca, erotic, graffiti, Life, photo, poets, Portugal, submissive, Summer, travel Leave a comment
The Altos dos Moinos Lisbon metro stop is on the Blue Line. The station opened to the public in 1988 and is designed by architect Ezequiel Nicolau with the plastic interventions of the painter Julio Pomar.
Using graffiti as an artistic expression, Júlio Pomar honored four figures of Portuguese letters;
Camões, Bocage, Pessoa, and Almada.
The work of a year of drawing resulted in the plastic animation of the station’s walls and an exhibition organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Center for Modern Art in 1984 entitled “1 Year of Drawing, 4 Poets in the Lisbon Metropolitan”.
João Castel-Branco Pereira, in his work “Arte-Metropolitano de Lisboa”, describes the emphasis the painter wanted to impress on each poet and the iconography he used; Camões “warrior and gallant, memories of a poetically fictional homeland history, in duels, medieval, etc.
Photos: dievca, Lisbon Portugal 08/2019
Cykels – remembering
Posted: August 9, 2019 Filed under: Relationships | Tags: art, BDSM, Bicycle, D/s, dievca, Life, Love, Memories, Relationships, statue, Summer, Sweden 3 Comments
Do you remember the heat of the Summer?
Cruising along on your bike?
Bicycles = Freedom
Stopping to flirt with the girls or boys?
Time had no meaning.
~Summers were Endless~
Photos: dievca Sweden 08/2019
We have a World of Pleasure to Explore…
Posted: February 23, 2019 Filed under: Entertainment | Tags: art, BDSM, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, Life, nude, photo, submissive, Zoltan Glass Leave a comment
Photo: Zoltan Glass - World
Sassy Showing …. “A Dangerous Idea”
Posted: February 1, 2019 Filed under: Entertainment, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC), Vintage | Tags: 1950's Household Kink, art, BDSM, Chase Contemporary, Connors Brothers, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, Film noir, gallery showing, Life, Master, NYC, submissive 3 Comments
Bundled up like a bratwurst in a bun – dievca walked home from work on Wednesday
and caught sight of these two pieces of Artwork in an empty gallery.
They made her stop and smile.
One of the Gallery workers stuck his head out the door and said the show opened the next day.
dievca missed the cocktail opening on Thursday,
but will ask her Master to join her for a “looksee” at the gallery, next week. 
If you cannot make it to 10th Avenue before the March closing – here’s the catalog for the
Connor Brothers’ Show,”A Dangerous Idea” :
https://www.chasecontemporary.com/connor-brothers
Photos: dievca 01/2019 Chelsea NYC
Pendu – “Post Fetish” elegance
Posted: December 9, 2018 Filed under: Accessories, Collars, Fashion | Tags: art, BDSM, bondage, collar, Collier, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, Fetish, Kink, Leather, Photos, Slave, submissive, Todd Pendu, Zana Bayne Leave a comment
Todd Pendu Zana Bayne “Magnum Opus” Collection SS14
dievca ran into a collection of leather goods from Todd Pendu & Zana Bayne called, “Magnum Opus” SS14. she purchased two items: a bracelet and a necklace which she modified slightly to make it a leather collar. How? she added holes at the buckles to tighten it and removed the attached triangle piece so Master could attach His lead.
The term “Post-Fetish” was coined by Todd Pendu as “decontextualizing traditional fetish gear into aesthetic accessories to be incorporated into everyday wear”.
Originally, dievca was focused on the person in the co-collaboration whose name was on the worked leather, Zana Bayne. But, she starting looking deeper into the gorgeous work of co-Creative Director, Todd Pendu after viewing some of his photographs.
Paz de la Huerta, lensed and styled by Todd Pendu
All wardrobe from the Zana Bayne “Moonbathers Collection”.
Shot in Los Angeles, August 2016
Todd Pendu is a multi-disciplinary artist and image-maker currently living and working in NYC and Los Angeles. PENDV JOURNAL is an online platform and portfolio for his creative projects and art/photographic works. He is the founder of DEVIL’S WHOREHOUSE STUDIO. He is also co-Creative Director at ZANA BAYNE.
Email: info @ pendvjournal . com
Website: http://www.pendunyc.com/
“I am a self-described ‘Duchampian Punk’ and a proponent for Libertine Culture. I work independently outside the Establishment. My art doesn’t always fit in to convenient aesthetic categories. I’m interested in personal freedom and expression. I do what I want. I create for those outside society – for those who live by their own rules – not for everyone, but for everyone else.” – Todd Pendu
CREDITS:
Cheyenne, lensed by Todd Pendu
Shot in an apartment in Paris. March, 2017.
Todd Pendu is a multi-talented person who is able to walk the edge and create elegance. dievca would like to Thank him for allowing her to share some if his work. Please stop by His site and wander.
Exhausted…
Posted: November 20, 2018 Filed under: Analysis, Musings | Tags: art, BDSM, D/s, dievca, Elegant, Life, Love, nude, NYC, photo, Relationships, submissive 7 Comments
Photo: Exhausted by Mez Sampson
“Exhausted and alone, my resources are gone, I need your strength to carry me on.”
The original was slated for a charity auction benefiting women’s shelters. The auction was canceled by the organizers making it available. It is matted (3″)and signed by myself and the model. Click here to purchase.
A low-key lighting set up of Keira Grant in an emotive artistic nude pose.
Coffee Cups of NYC
Posted: November 19, 2018 Filed under: Accessories, Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: art, BDSM, coffee, Coffee shops, D/s, dievca, Life, Love, Massimo Mongiardo, Master, Monday, NYC, submissive Leave a commentA fun way to investigate the neighborhoods of NYC would be to find the local Coffee Shops that are original to the City. dievca is sure it would be tricky and take a lot of planning + subway travel, but perhaps using these coffee cup posters from Knowlita would help:
Posters of the Coffee Cups of NYC, Knwolita and Henry Hargraves and Massimo Mongiardo
Hmmm, dievca just figured out that we will have to use the digital options as a guide because the limited edition prints are sold out…bummer.
couchante
Posted: November 14, 2018 Filed under: D/s Relationship, Submission, submissive | Tags: art, BDSM, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, Life, Love, Master, nude, Submission, submissive 9 Comments
Like a lioness couchante,
sated, yet stimulated
awaiting Master
“Female Nude Lying Down” Sanguine and white chalk on cream-colored paper Eric Bossik
click the graphic for the website
Safe In Master’s Hands (or Mistress’)
Posted: October 20, 2018 Filed under: D/s Relationship | Tags: art, Artwork, Auction, BDSM, D/s, dievca, Dominance and submission, erotic, Housing Works NYC, Life, Master, nude, Relationships, Slave, submissive Leave a comment
Description
* Lithograph on thin, fibrous handmade paper
* Signed in pencil at lower right
* Edition 10/30
* Print is impressed into rag paper, creating a seamless appearance
* In metal frame, behind glass, wired for hanging
* Light wear
Auction ends on Oct. 25th, 10 pm EST
https://shop.housingworks.org/product/220278
You know if it was NYC…
Posted: August 12, 2018 Filed under: Entertainment | Tags: art, BDSM, D/s, dievca, Life, Love, NYC, photo, submissive, Summer, Sun, travel 3 Commentsthe sundeck would be jammed.
Not a bad place to take a good beer, right?
Château de Caen – William the Conqueror built the Castle c. 1060
Then dievca spotted this at the supermarché…what?
“Sex in a Canoe” Beer
Looks awful.
(all the way from outside Dallas, Texas)
Phew~
Photos: dievca 08/2018 Caen, France
Constriction
Posted: July 6, 2018 Filed under: Entertainment, Submission | Tags: art, BDSM, bondage, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, Fetish, photo, Relationships, rope, Shibari, Slave, Stephane Graff, submissive 5 Comments
Stephane Graff, Mermaid, UK, 2013
A comprehensive body of work, Graff’s Constriction series began in 1991. Much of the series was photographed over an intensive two-year period (1991-1992), after which the series was revisited in 2013.
In Constriction, we discover nude figures bound with ropes. Their bodies, partially concealed, are meticulously wrapped in a manner reminiscent of the ancient Egyptian mummy wrap technique. Captured in raking light, the bodies appear incomplete, resembling at times heavy stone sculptures.
The eroticism of a rope-tied nude figure has appealed to many artists in the past. Man Ray’s 1936 Venus Restaurée, a precursor to Graff’s work, binds a classical armless female nude with rope. However, Graff’s nude figures are too complex to be interpreted as mere sexual fantasies. Graff’s subject matter stems primarily from his fascination with the ritual of binding body parts found in various indigenous cultures.
Another source of inspiration for Graff is the escapologist and stunt performer Harry “Handcuff” Houdini, who would often volunteer to be bound and chained on stage before performing a miraculous escape. This theatrical element is alluded to in Graff’s studio set, which often incorporates a painted canvas backdrop reminiscent of a Victorian stage or sideshow backdrop.
Graff’s bound nude figures offer many potential interpretations, making the Constriction series a dynamic, dramatic, and timeless body of work. ~ Todd Merrill Gallery
Stephane Graff, Tower, UK 1991
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Regroup.
Posted: March 11, 2018 Filed under: D/s Relationship, Master, submissive | Tags: art, BDSM, D/s, dievca, Dominant, Life, Love, Master, Relationships, submissive, travel 5 Comments
Gustave Adolphe Désiré Crauk, Le Combat du Centaure, 1900. Photo: 1971 Robert Doisneau
Walk side by side,
listening and sharing.
Gain strength with skin to skin contact,
comfort through olfaction.
If one cannot regroup via travel,
traveling though the mind helps.
Look at beauty with someone close.
Dream through their eyes.
If that is not possible,
just remember you are loved.
Photo: Robert Doisneau, Sidelong glance, 1948
Shibari Lingerie
Posted: March 1, 2018 Filed under: lingerie | Tags: art, BDSM, bondage, D/s, dievca, Dominant, Elegant, erotic, fashion, Fred Kyrel, Kink, ropes, Shibari, submissive 8 Comments
Fred Kyrel Fashion Shibari
(click photo for website)
Fred Kyrel – Fashion Shibari
For those Sirs and Madams with patience.
dievca 