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My Old Flame by =Athansor:iconAthansor:

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Submitted: March 3, 2008
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I uploaded this yesterday, changed its name, then decided I didn't like it so well as I thought--and deleted it.

This morning, I like it again, but from a new perspective: the memory of an old love. You still feel a bit of the love...you hold on to it, in spite of new loves--and yet, you see them as through a glass, darkly...not their current reality, but an idealized and wispy Romantic Memory.

The model is the lovely Emma, and I've used textures from :iconresurgere:--specifically, from :icondholms: (one of the abstract painting packages) and :iconwroth: ("webbed, vol II).

Enjoy! (And don't be surprised if I delete it again, this evening! I seem to be mighty ambivalent about this piece! ;))

BTW...she does, in fact, have a tiny tiny bit of a lazy eye--not something you notice in real life, or at least I didn't--but it shows a bit more, in some of the photos I took. I think this one accentuates it a little--but I like the way it makes her look a little more unusual in this image.
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=MagePrydain:iconMagePrydain: Mar 3, 2008, 8:36:44 AM
And once again I fave! ;p

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~Vipra-Ur:iconVipra-Ur: Mar 3, 2008, 10:06:02 AM
Romantic Memory. Romantic Love - pretty feelings... :wave:

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`MYvonne:iconMYvonne: Mar 3, 2008, 10:15:28 AM
I remember her and I do like it. It is like 'old love'... romanticized ..
Mood: Overwhelmed *kayceeus:iconkayceeus: Mar 3, 2008, 3:46:29 PM
Ooh I remember Emma and I love her in blackish & white! It looks like I'm seeing her through a dirty window that she's been sitting at forever, I mean come on the spiders are weaving webs into her hair already! :giggle: Seriously Sweetie it's gorgeous work I love it!!

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=Athansor:iconAthansor: Mar 3, 2008, 4:01:32 PM
Yes--very romanticized--and with only the ghost of reality still clinging to it. Don't we all have one of those memories tucked away, somewhere? ;)

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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than
any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful.
--E Burne-Jones
=Athansor:iconAthansor: Mar 3, 2008, 4:04:18 PM
LOL--now THAT'S dedication! :D :hug:

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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than
any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful.
--E Burne-Jones
=Athansor:iconAthansor: Mar 3, 2008, 4:10:51 PM
Yep--that's exactly the way I see this image...which was why I wrestled with the title so much. I kept thinking of the song, "Sleepy Jean"--and that line about wiping the sleep out of her eyes...and that made me think of cobwebs, and so I thought of "Mists of Dreams"...but that seemed way too Hivemindish, and then I thought of "Rainy Days and Mondays", because of the whole dirty, rainy window effect...and "Blue Monday" and "Monday Doldrums"...and then decided I didn't like it at all, and deleted it.

I liked it again this morning, though, and remembered Peggy Lee's old song...and the Indigo Girls singing "Ghost" ("I'm in love with your ghost")...and reuploaded it with the new title. I like the new interpretation--but the others are all mixed up in it, still--with the rain and the window and the "sitting at it forever" feeling...so yeah, you managed to pick up on everything I put into it, I think! ;)

It won't fly here, though. My only other two black and whites are my least faved and least visited...and I expect this one will do similarly poorly. Ah well! Sometimes ya gotta be unpopular--it's good for the soul! :D :hug:

(And Emma LOVED it--that's all that REALLY matters! ;))

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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than
any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful.
--E Burne-Jones
=Athansor:iconAthansor: Mar 3, 2008, 4:11:04 PM
Thank you! :) :hug:

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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than
any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful.
--E Burne-Jones
=Athansor:iconAthansor: Mar 3, 2008, 4:11:39 PM
Not to mention universal! ;) We've all been there...or will be, at some point! :) :hug:

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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than
any light that ever shone, in a land no one can define or remember, only desire & the forms divinely beautiful.
--E Burne-Jones
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