something about the merit of my gaze
"Thorn of a Passion"
In my heart, I had the thorn of a passion; one day I managed to pull it out: I no longer feel my heart.
Poem: “ensueños”, published in Soledades (Antonio Machado, 1835-1939) - adapted
Photography: the thorn of a passion
Model: Yullia Tretiak
Location: Barranco del Cambrón, Salobreña, Granada. Spain.
Date: April 2024
Life is a dream, and dreams are but dreams
I dream that I am here, burdened with these prisons; and I dreamed that in another, more flattering state I saw myself. What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction, and the greatest good is small; for all of life is a dream, and dreams, dreams are.
Fragment from the poem, “Life is a Dream”Act 3, scene 19 (monologue of Segismund). (Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1635)
Photography: life is a dream, and dreams, dreams are / a dream, and dreams… are dreams.
Model: Rebeca Aguilar Palomo
Location: Punta Chullera, Manilva, Málaga. Spain.
Date: November 2023
Woman with red hair
The flamboyant color of your red hair, with that reflection of fire on this jealous mirror of your grains, and your freckles that dot your face. Your vermilion curls, like the rays of the setting sun on the sea, ignite our souls. Your unique epidermis marries your green eyes, a gift where you are queen.
Guinard, C. (2021). “Femme aux cheveux roux”, Plume de Poète (adaptado).
Photography: Femme aux cheveux roux
Model: Roxanne Maïté Nault
Location: Playa de Cala Sardina, San Roque, Cádiz, Spain.
Date: April 2024.
Always forward
Among the sparkling caves, over the misty waves, I go. Always forward, always!
Poem: "Restless Love", (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832), adapted fragment.
Photography: Always forward, always
Model: Kramen
Location: Barranco del Cambrón, Salobreña, Granada. Spain.
Date: May 2024
The Paths of Dreams
“Solitudes. Galleries and other poems”, in «On the bitter earth», (Antonio Machado, 1875-1939).
Photography: the paths of the dream
Model: Kramen
Place: Barranco del Cambrón, Salobreña, Granada. Spain.
Date: May 2024
'Naked in solitude
But in the heart there can be no deceit, just as within the soul there is no room for the lie that in solitary peace we see ourselves naked, without vanity or pride, alien to the cruel damage of simulation that hypocritically conspires and then to the heavens, to inspire me, I resort.
Poem: «Inner Peace». (Marilina Rébora, 1919 - 1999).
Photography: nude in solitude.
Model: Yullia Tretiak.
Location: Barranco del Cambrón, Salobreña, Granada. Spain.
Date: April 2024.
Beautiful goddess Aphrodite
«Hymn to Aphrodite». (Sappho, 650/610 B.C.- 580 B.C.).
Photograph: beautiful goddess Aphrodite.
Model: Yullia Tretiak.
Location: Ríotinto Mining Railway Station, Nerva, Huelva. Spain.
Date: April 2024.
In the golden river
Let us sing of gold, a mighty river, source of life, that makes young and beautiful those who bathe in its wonderful currents, and ages those who do not enjoy its streams.
Poem «The Song of Gold», (Rubén Darío, 1867-1916), adapted.
Model: Yullia Tretiak
Location: Ríotinto Mining Railway Station, Nerva, Huelva. Spain.
Date: April 2024
Invictus
An unconquerable spirit that stands firm in the face of adversity, that does not bend to circumstances nor is overcome by the blows of fate. Although the path may be dark and difficult, its soul remains intact, master of its destiny and captain of its life.
Text: Invictus (William Ernest Henley, 1875) — adapted.
Model: Belén Padrones Pinedo.
Place: San Martín del Castañar, Salamanca, Spain.
Date: November 2023.
My dreams dreamed of you
Dreaming of you is how I pass the time. I am delighted when you caress me, and I need you to be the only one who holds me in your arms.
Poem "dreaming my dreams of you", (Margaret Denham, 2007), adapted.
Photography: my dreams were dreaming of you.
Model: Kramen
Location: Granada, Spain.
Date: March 2024
Caught by their dreams
It trapped you in its dream and its nets are unbreakable; it took over your concerns, your entire body… And one day you could even shout furiously at people: no one dare tell me how to get out of that dream!
Poem “Trapped in a Dream”, (Álvaro J. Márquez, 2013), - adapted.
Photography: trapped in its dream.
Model: Carlota Yagüe Santos.
Location: Caín. Picos de Europa, León. Spain.
Date: April 2024.
Beauty in the soul
Do not measure a woman's beauty in gold, because a woman's beauty is reflected in her soul.
Text extracted from the blog: Peakd, Poem: «A Woman's Beauty», (Alex Valera. 2020)
Model: Rebeca Aguilar Palomo
Location: Punta Chullera, Manilva, Málaga. Spain.
Date: November 2023
Caught in my darkness
I am trapped in my own memories. Trapped in my darkness, with a frozen soul, I hear the cry of a girl who wants to escape.
Poem “Trapped”, (Doberman Slave, 2015) - adapted.
Photography: trapped in my darkness.
Model: Kramen
Location: Granada, Spain.
Date: March 2024
Living the dreams
It is not advisable to indulge in dreams and forget to live.
The text is an excerpt from: “Albus Dumbledore” dialogue from the movie Harry Potter, (J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 2001).
Photography: living the dreams
Model: Carlota Yagüe Santos.
Location: El Bolugar, Caín. Picos de Europa, León. Spain
Date: April 2024.
Dream the princess
No one dreams in heaven! The beautiful princess dreamed... Her eyes closed and relaxed eyelashes enjoyed a dream world that had her captive. The dawn kissed her gently and, among sheets and pillows, she remembered: dream, heaven and life. Keep dreaming, divine princess; in your crystal dream you will live a thousand and one things.
Poem. “Keep Dreaming”, (ToTTó, 2012), adapted.
Photography: the princess dreams
Model: Lara García Fernández
Location: El Bolugar, Caín, Picos de Europa, León
Date: May 2023
Connected with reality
And I saw that it was true what you had taught me: beauty insists: it connects with the real... That clarity. Brief shine on earth.
Poem «Late Love». (Jan Zwicky, 1998) - adapted.
Photography: connected with reality.
Model: Roxanne Maïté Nault.
Location: Cala Sardina Beach, San Roque, Cádiz. Spain.
Date: April 2024.
Perfect bed
“This bed is perfect!", said Goldilocks cheerfully, and fell into a deep sleep full of dreams about cookies and kittens.”
Children's story “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” – R. Southey, 1837
Photography: perfect bed
Model: Yullia Tretiak.
Location: Barranco del Cambrón, Salobreña, Granada. Spain.
Date: April 2024
Mysterious
There you are, mysterious woman, with that vertiginous attitude, and as always too beautiful.
Poem: “Mysterious Woman”, (Salvador Gutiérrez, 2024), adapted fragment.
Photography: mysterious
Model: Alshira Alcíbar
Location: Barranco del Cambrón, Salobreña, Granada. Spain
Date: December 2023
Mind at ease
Famous phrase, (Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, 6th century BC)
Photography: calm mind.
Model: Rebeca Aguilar Palomo
Place: Punta Chullera, Manilva, Málaga. Spain.
Date: November 2023
Fairy Daughter
I found a lady in the meadow, of consummate beauty, beautiful as a fairy's daughter; her hair was long, her foot light, her eyes enchanting.
Poem: «La Belle Dame sans Merci», (John Keats, 1795-1821) - adapted.
Photography: fairy's daughter.
Model: Débora de la Esperanza.
Place: La Bardera, Torre del Val de San Pedro. Segovia. Spain.
Date: November 2022
Dragged by her dreams
It is not good to let oneself be carried away by dreams and forget to live, remember it.
The text is an excerpt from: “Albus Dumbledore” dialogue from the movie Harry Potter, (J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 2001).
Photograph: carried away by her dreams
Model: Carlota Yagüe Santos.
Location: Caín. Picos de Europa, León. Spain.
Date: April 2024.
Present moment
Do not live in the past, do not imagine the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment
Published: Famous phrase, (Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha, 6th century BC)
Photography: present moment
Model: Rebeca Aguilar Palomo
Place: Punta Chullera, Manilva, Málaga. Spain.
Date: November 2023
Taken from its history
Penetrating, almost challenging, blue, burning and inciting… Filling spaces, sighing, distilling… Captured by its history and its aroma, her hands speak another language: the language of euphoria, the language of glory… And thus he invites her, thus he incites her, with a fiery gaze and tender delight, he is divine caress, of a feline gaze…
Poem «Feline Gaze».(Veronica Sigala, 2018) - adapted
Photography: captured by its history
Model: Yullia Tretiak.
Location: Playa Granada, Motril, Granada. Spain.
Date: April 2024
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