Bursting at the seams…

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Beauty, In Absence, Love, Relationships, watercolor

© Joan Currie – watercolor

Absence extinguishes a minor passion and intensifies a great one – as the wind blows out a candle but fans a fire.
from In Absence by François , Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Trying to wait patiently for your return…

Attention to detail…

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Beauty, David Foster Wallace, Fashion, Photography, Relationships

© Joan Currie

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort,  and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. – from This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Sometimes it seems that all my time is spent picking up the pieces of other people’s lives.

Model: Carole Morey

Holding tight…

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Beauty, Fashion, Love, Photography, Relationships

© Joan Currie

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. – Anonymous

Waiting for that great big crazy love to come again…

Model: Carole Morey

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Blink of an eye…

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Audrey Hepburn, Beauty, Katy Perry false eyelashes, Photography

© Joan Currie

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. – Audrey Hepburn

The false eyelash containers reminded me of my elementary school caterpillar collection.

Quick-change artist…

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Beauty, Fashion, Haider Ackermann, Lauren DiMarco, Photography

© Lauren DiMarco

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Trying to shed old habits…

Me, myself this time…

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Beauty, Fashion, Labyrinth of Desire, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Relationships, Rosemary Sullivan

© Kevin Osmond Man – detail

Eventually, however, you discover that you have nurtured in another what you should have nurtured in yourself and you are left empty. Even damaged. Bending your will to his, you lose your own passions and dreams.
from Labyrinth of Desire by Rosemary Sullivan

The cost of loving you has proven to be too high.

Model: Lauren DiMarco

On edge…

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Asymmetrical hemline, Beauty, Design, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Michael Chichi, Paul Valery, Photography, Relationships

© Michael Chichi

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. – Paul Valery

You keep me off-balance. 

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Your heart is with me…

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Beauty, e.e. cummings, Fashion, i carry your heart with me, Love, Photography, Poetry, Ukushu Khrystyna, Writing

© Ukushu Khrystyna

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in 
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
from i carry your heart with me by e. e. cummings 

Some days I need all of you – in the flesh.

Model: Ukushu Khrystyna

Afterthoughts…

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Beauty, Fashion, Pablo Neruda, Photography, Sonnet XVII: I do not love you as if you were brine-rose, Todd Hido, Ukushu Khrystyna

© Todd Hido

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
from Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda, translated by Stephen Tapscott 

I wish you would articulate your love for me.

Model: Ukushu Khrystyna

Transcendent love…

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Beauty, Desire, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Love, Photography, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

© Creative Smiles Photography – detail

When true Love burns Desire is Love’s pure flame;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
And but translates the language of the heart.
from Desire by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

You have shown me the purest form of love.

Model: Lauren DiMarco