I participated in a study-abroad program when i was in college and part of that consisted of visiting Amsterdam for a few days. My friends and I did all the things you do when you’re 20 and in Amsterdam for the first time. Namely, we visited The Anne Frank house, smoked pot in a coffee shop, and went to a (the?) Sex Museum and got a giggling photo of ourselves in front of a seven foot dick.
However, the thing I remember most about that trip was an ad that was on bus stops. The whole poster was filled with pink and violet flowers except for a woman’s breast and part of her face. I’m not actually sure what it was advertising (perfume, maybe?) but I was blown away by it. Yes, I was an American seeing nudity in public for the first time. (No secret that we are a rather puritanical nation and can barely handle women’s breasts while they are being used for breastfeeding, let alone advertising perfume. Unless you stick a scrap of lace over her nipples and paste some angel wings on her back, then it’s ok, but I digress.) But I was also blown away by the beauty of the ad. By the cleverness of the way the flowers were arranged and the subtleness with which her naked breast was revealed.
I still think about that ad often and decided to do a poor imitation of it this week for Sinful Sunday. Someday, I’ll invest in a bed full of flowers to do it for real. Today, I made do with my floral sheets.
Also, I’m usually pretty decisive when it comes to which photo I want to use but this week, I couldn’t choose. The first one is more straightforward and sensual, I think. But the second one is more surreal and has a bit more of the ‘hidden surprise’ flavor I was going for.
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Well done! I like the first shot best because of how the eye travels from your breast to your leg.
I like them both, but you’re right, they’re very different.
This is a really cool idea. I think I prefer the second one, with your just breast showing and I know what you mean about it being slightly surreal, but I also found myself searching the photo for the outline of your body, but it’s almost like you’re not there! The muted colours of the bedding really work too. I’m looking forward to seeing if you get beach creative next week! Have a fab holiday. Xx
Thank you! I will definitely try.
I was looking at each as they made me want to find the outline of the rest of your form. They are so unusual and intriguing.
I love them both for different reasons. I love how your leg pulls our eye through the first image, but the second image plays with your mind a little more.
Oh they are both FUN . . . but I love the first one just because it seems to flow so naturally from breast to leg . . . but they both do make me smile. And that is always important for me !!!
Xxx – K
It is not an easy choice but I found myself constantly drawn back to the first image. The breast and then the leg seem oddly disjointed. You know it is one person and yet, we can not be absolutely sure from the image alone
Mollyxxx
A beautiful glimpse!
I’d buy whatever you were selling if those were the adverts 😉
~Kazi xxx
Oh I like these very much. My favourite would be the first one just because you get a glimpse of both breast and leg and the eye kind of travels down the image.
Velvet x
I love them both, but I, too, can’t stop looking at the first one, the composition is so striking.
xox
Much like the others before me, I’m drawn back to the first image and its the tantalising lines and glimpses.
Just gorgeous…
I keep coming back to these this week – I love them. Just love how you’re being swallowed up in the art – which is my dream x x x
That’s a beautiful way to say it! I love that!
Thanks Tabitha! I never thought of it that way, swallowed up by art, but I love it!
I love both of them!! Very clever. I too found myself searching for your outline.
Stella
Xxx
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