Beautiful Masculinity…

04 Friday Mar 2011

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Ben Pacificar, Hedi Slimane, maleness, masuclinity, Photography, postaweek2011, Slavic Berenzeko

I’d like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive.
To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.
Hedi Slimane

The modern masculine – see Hedi Slimane’s provocative website for his personal, fashion, and portrait diaries.

Model – Slavic Berezenko

Biker…

03 Thursday Mar 2011

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Only the gentle are ever really strong. – James Dean

Is American masculinity being redefined or have we always valued strong gentle men like James Stewart, Cary Grant, and Gregory Peck?

Model – Micha Borodaev

Stroll…

02 Wednesday Mar 2011

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If you look for the truth outside yourself,
It gets farther and farther away.
Today walking alone, I meet it everywhere I step.
Tung-Shan

I was enveloped in a riot of fuchsia and rose colored blossoms on my walk today.

Model – Khrystyana Kazakova

Wonderland…

01 Tuesday Mar 2011

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I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle! – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

This blog has taken me to Wonderland! I do not know the who, what, when, where, and why of it yet, but I am savoring and the experience. Thanks to everyone for your support!

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Favorite Necklace…

28 Monday Feb 2011

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A Necklace by William Strode

These veines are nature’s nett,
These cords by art are sett.

If love himselfe flye here,
Love is intangled here.

Loe! on my neck this twist I bind,
For to hang him that steales my mynde:
Unless hee hang alive in chaynes
I hang and dye in lingring paynes.

Theis threads enjoy a double grace,
Both by the gemme and by the place.

My daughters fashioned this necklace for me from Murano beads that once belonged to my grandmother.

Veil…

27 Sunday Feb 2011

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And how can body, laid in what white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
William Butler Yeats

A gentle bride on her wedding day.

Model – Khrystyana Kazakova

Rose Metalwork…

26 Saturday Feb 2011

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. – Henri Matisse

My daughters were very adept at making Lego sculptures. One spray-painted her masterpiece in gold and this vase from Copenhagen reminds me of that creation.