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Captive blood enslavement. by ~vennecto:iconvennecto:

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Special critique by Veronika S. :

First of all, I think that the very reason the photo attracted so much
attention is its strong sexual flavour. I am not discovering America, I
know. But it seems to me as if all those people were. This is visible
from the very core of their feelings - saying that "this is a great
photo" probably having no more argument to support it than "it strikes
me so strangely". This is also seen in the details. A lot of poeple say
the model is holding the skirt as if she tried to protect herself from
rape. I appreciate the comment for the author's courage to refer to the
sexual aspect openly, but I disagree in the protection matter. a girl
holding her skirt like this is suggesting trailing it more up rather
than protecting anything, if she is trying anything at all.

Why am I giving you this boring lecture? Because there are so many
comments like "this is a great photo" that one day you are going to
believe it. I know you can be self-critic but this ability need not
necessarily prove strong enough with so many opponents.

Are you familiar with Bruno Bettelheim theories? Or at least with the
psychoanalytic approach towards the traditional tales?

Supposing you are not, I will tell you what is Bettelheim's
interpretation of the Sleeping Beauty. Like many stories, this one is
about growing up and one of its purposes was to acquaint children with
the perplex way of human development, especially puberty. All those
princesses experiencing a turning point in life somewhere around their
fifteenth birthday (which was the time girls started menstruating in the
Middle Ages - now it is quicker due to better life conditions). So
Sleeping Beauty describes a development stage when a girl - until
recently merry, outgoing and unaware of the dangers of this world -
discovers the sphere that has been kept taboo from her so far (as a
child I have always wondered why the Queen had never warned her daughter
against spindles, should any be found). And a drop of blood falls on the
material.

Now, as a result, she sort of withdraws herself from life and her
happy-go-lucky behaviour is gone forever. No more childish innocent
curiosity. Now whatever is going on, will be going on in the inner
layers, so to say. On a more general level, this is the time when girls
prefer their own company, sometimes even to the point of homosexual
experiments (on the other hand - female homosexuals are often accused of
simply never having gotten out of this stage, but this is off-topic)
rather than with the other sex.

So now - coming back to your photo. A picture of the innocence just
lost. She seems to be sleeping, no girl on Planet Earth would ever be
sleeping holding her skirt like this. So she is luring you in but is she
doing it unconsciously - with eyes closed it seems as if her mind wandered
away. Then there is the white snow and fresh blood on it. Blood is not
only shoot-hole blood or axe-cut blood, it can be menstrual blood, has
anyone thought about it? (I have read till the 26the page of comment and
so far only one person has said something like "maybe its her time of
the month").

This is what this picture says to me - this very particular time of
developing femininity where the subject seems to be yet asleep, but
something has already happened. It is very delicate time and not easy to
capture either. I am not to know to what degree this photo has been
arranged and taken consciously and to what degree - half consciously
(like based on intuition) and how much of it is accidental actually. I
am not to know because it would end up with questions concerning your
own awareness of the matters the photo is dealing with.

This might seem very sophisticated of me to tell you my opinions as I
have just done, so I will simply confess - on a more general level, I
like the photo very very much. I am also a human not invulnerable to
different flavours. Knowing the mechanism of getting drunk does not
spare one from the effect of wine.

Daily Deviation

Given 2009-01-15

The suggester says "The model looks here really innocent. The blood composes well with model's hair and contrasts with snow and model's complexion after death. The pose may suggest that she died from cold and this leads us to think about why the blood is here. What really happened to the girl in Captive blood enslavement. by =vennecto?" (Suggested by =nietuzinka and Featured by ^RockstarVanity)

Comments


:iconfaflova:
~faflova Jan 3, 2009, 2:32:07 PM
o. i to jest najlepsze ^^

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`Hey, love, is that name you're meant to have for me to call? Look, love - they've given up believing, they've turned aside our stories of the gentle fall.`
:iconvennecto:
~vennecto Jan 3, 2009, 2:33:17 PM
^^'

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do you think you really know me?
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~a-be Jan 3, 2009, 2:43:36 PM
tu się z panienką faflovą zgodzę.
kocham Was, moje dzieciaky zdolne! :heart:

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:iconvennecto:
~vennecto Jan 3, 2009, 2:46:34 PM
arigatou ^^

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~OloS Jan 3, 2009, 3:40:47 PM
Definitywnie najlepsze z serii. Kompozycja, kadr, kolorystyka jest jak najbardziej ok.
Nie pytam czy jej było zimno, po tym sylwestrze już nikomu nigdy chyba nie będzie zimno :D
:iconvennecto:
~vennecto Jan 4, 2009, 1:18:48 AM
dziekuje ^^ :aww:

hahaha xD syn jakos strasznie nie narzekala, to ja raczej sralem ogniem 'syn, nie jest ci zimno?'

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:iconsyn777:
~syn777 Jan 4, 2009, 3:14:23 AM
u nas w piekle jest zawsze ciepło!

--
I can see
your back is turning.
If I could I'd stick the knife in.
:iconvennecto:
~vennecto Jan 4, 2009, 4:07:36 AM
oczywiscie, wujek szatan nas grzeje ;>

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:iconvennecto:
~vennecto Jan 4, 2009, 7:04:39 AM
ciesze sie (:

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