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Lovely, Suzanne! Reminds me of Esther Shimazu’s beautiful sculptures:
http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/esther_shimazu.htm
thank you anon
and what a lovely comparison!
I was unfamiliar with her images___
I couldn’t believe
how complex taking a good
navel photo turned out
to be . . .
This is great! I love that it carefully excludes both main loci of attention for every other website in the Internet with photos of nekkid women on it. Good to see you here, Suzanne.
That’s wonderful! I forget, what with plastic advertising flesh blaring at me all the time what wonderful texture and shading skin can have. That’s a navel that can sustain a long, long gaze.
thank you, dave n dale
I couldn’t think of a more
appropriate opening
to start with
as I think about
all of them
I confess I have been posting
among other things
nekkid woman photos
at my secondary blog
all of them really
about
being open
mainly to wonder
definitely not plasticizement
nor advertisement
just one cronish human body
how it looks
what it sees