Fine Art Self Portraiture Photography
Slideshow by Katarina Silva
“Since my art’s subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.†Frida Kahlo “Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance—that is all!†Anais Nin
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Landing
"They are coming to see this!
I am making this place sacred.
Within light and woods
she rises:
Woman with wings!
Sing to my soul."
Lakota Song for womanhood ritual
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Sun fairy
"Fragments of fire,
darting white flames:
weave the rising sun into my dreams.
Dancing white flames,
star-insects, fire-fragments:
weave the rising sun into my dreams.
Flitting white fires,
dashing little fireflies:
weave light into my heart
with your wings"
Ancient Ojibwa Song
Photo by Femininelure
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Embrace of Death
"We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another."
--Luciano De Crescenzo
(This is an ancient gravestone)
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Heart Song
"Thou healer of every wounded warrior,
charm that beguilest women,
familiar guide over the dark water,
music mystic and sweet.
O cry of fairy women from the mound of Lear,
no music can match thine;
under thy guidance every house is sweet-stringed,
thou pinnacle of harp-music."
By Gofraidh Fionn � D�laigh, 'Ireland's arch-professor of poetry', who died in 1387
Photo by Femininelure
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Budding Flower
My kitty surprised me in this one!
Because I focus on self-portraiture and am alone when I create my photos, I take all of them on a ten second timer. The kitty walked in just in time! :)
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Ode to My Tree
"But you and I, love, we are together
from our clothes down to our roots:
together in the autumn, in rain, in hips,
until we can be alone together
-only you, only me"
by Latin poet Pablo Neruda
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Abandonment
"A bridal veil, donned in perfect bliss
Obscuring the graceful white swell
Of a breast bursting with joy
Taming red tresses curled in anticipation
Of long-awaited release onto white satin
Hiding lips shyly smiling in nervous hope
Of the single kiss that is an ending and a beginning
So clouding the vision of eyes ablaze with longing
That they could not see what would not be
The setting sun draws its bow
Its harsh rays pierce the veil
As her love bleeds through the wounds
The sun, too, will soon abandon her"
By Knight of Cups
Photo by Femininelure
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Stronger than death...
?I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -
myth is more potent than history -
dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief -
love is stronger than death?
Robert Fulghum
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Love Offering
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
Kahlil Gibran
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Cupido
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anais Nin
This image was inspired by Citizen~s photostream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mzcitizensmith/), an artist who sees beauty in darkness)
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The Song of Despair
"You swallowed everything, like distance.
Like the sea, like time.
In you everything sank!
It was the happy hour of assault and the kiss.
The hour of the spell that blazed like a lighthouse.
Pilot's dread, fury of a blind diver,
turbulent drunkenness of love,
in you everything sank!"
by Pablo Neruda
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Venus
Meet my shy, little girl, Venus. She likes to hide in the garden.
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Perseus
A naughty and stubborn boy! But I am in love with him, nevertheless!
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The Weight of Beauty
Orchid Dreams
"My orchid dews
with musky cream
for thoughts of you
and distant dreams
Its center swells
with heat engorged,
its need unquelled
awaiting more
Petaled lips, those
lingually teased -
passionate moans
in ecstasy seized"
By Anonymous
Photo by Femininelure
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Unfurled Beauty
"Today I noticed for the first time my Magnolia in full bloom.
Buds that were curled up against the cold north biting wind,
Now unfurled as the warm spring sunshine kisses them open.
Blooms tulip shaped, fully erect, pale pink, magenta centre.
I watch and admire as the evening sun plays hide and seek,
Shadows falling upon gossamer petals, dappled, Jade green.
Demonstrating the beauty of nature, a portrait painted of my love.
Her pale delicate complexion perfect as the magnolia flower.
Tall, colourful, full of life, a constant pure joy to behold is she,
Perfect is her grace, fragrant perfume and beauty my Magnolia,
Standing proudly in Spring's sunlit garden...for all to see"
By Sid John Gardner
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River of Life
?You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.?
Paulo Coelho
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Feeling you...
?I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.?
Maya Angelou
(American Poet, b.1928)
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Without him...
Let yourself be silently drawn
by the stronger pull of what you really love
--Rumi
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Blossoms
"Life is a flower of which love is the honey." -
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
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My Life's Canvass
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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My Life's Mirror...
?Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.?
- Ernest Holmes
(This image received no digital enhancement or processing. It is a raw reflection of trees in a river.)
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Incarceration
I was alone and became lost while taking photographs in these eerie woodlands. Anything for art!
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Casting Spells
"Witchcraft has not a Pedigree
'Tis early as our Breath
And mourners meet it going out
The moment of our death --"
Emily Dickinson
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Dreams
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
Edgar Allan Poe
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Lost
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
- William Shakespeare
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My Romeo
?A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, sensual, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.?
Quote by Pam Brown
This is my sweet and handome neighbor, Romeo. I think he is in love with me. ;)
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Golden Doe
"In shady silence,
You, gracious doe-eyed beauty,
Are ever watchful."
Sally Clarke
(I live surrounded by acres of pastures and woods. They are often visited by deer, who watch me take photographs of myself. So, I thought you might like to see a picture of my first audience!)
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Tilling my heart
?Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared, and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.?
Kent Nerburn
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Cleopatra
"Having slept, the cat gets up,
yawns, goes out
to make love."
by Kobayashi Issa
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Restless
"It is that perennial immateriality dwelling between living and dying
crouched in the corners and grappling by the hinges
only to remain unseen;
We weave our web of what we believe we understand
of the relationship of our acts and events
only to remain misunderstood;
From that odd wisp of steam of heated discussions
to the urgent hiss of a new page calling;
I teeter on that thin ice --
That single space of uncertainty --
And I ask
?What am I doing here??.
by Cecilia Borromeo
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Love's Waters
"Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank"
Paulo Coehlo
(I discovered that is it very challenging to take pictures of oneself with a tripod and a ten second timer while riding alone on a boat!)
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I am The River
"Inside the river are
the sky, the cloud, and the sun.
In my hands? bowl is the river.
If I throw up my hands,
the river spills in drops, scattering
sky, cloud, and sun all over me.
From my hands? bowl, if I drink
the river, then within me,
the sun, the cloud, and the sky.
Tell me, who is in who?"
Mamta G.Sagar
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Escape
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
Anais Nin
Photo by Femininelure