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Do Not Remove Pins From Body [Butterfly Variation] (2013)
john luke chapman
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originally posted, with a short bio and creative musings, at the online gallery Broken Light : A Photography Collective a couple of weeks ago.
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the shirt & suit was obtained from the wardrobe department at Fox Studios where it had been worn by various vampires in the tv show Buffy The Vampire Slayer. i added the dust and the butterfly.
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darkling eye 
gorgeous!
thank you, moonwynd …
Beautiful! Love the fact about it being worn in Buffy haha
thanks hannah; the suit survived sunnydale only to be further tormented in england …
lyrical and haunting… a sense something tenderly disturbing. stunning image!
love your phrasing of ‘something tenderly disturbing’. feel as though ‘this way comes’ should be added on the end.
ohhhhhh I like that! makes me think of David Usher’s Black Black Heart…. ( though that’s ‘something ugly this way comes’ )
Wonderful.
And I love Buffy by the way.
thanks ashley. and for your words on broken light. thought you might be a sunnydale-girl at heart … 🙂
Beautiful and haunting (as much of your work is). I guess butterfly wings are mostly dust too. I do find the butterfly hopeful but with your explanation it has many layers of meaning.
thank you karen.
Hi john Luke,
I hope all is well with you.
This work reminded me of your work, I thought you might find it inspiring.
http://www.artandsciencejournal.com/post/52396606664/paul-hazeltons-dust-sculptures-for-most-dust-is
Take care,
K
hey karen, thank you so much for this link, he’s an artist that i didn’t know of at all and some of his work is very interesting (especially on his own website). huge apologies for taking soooo long to respond but i have been somewhat awol. but i’m back now. for a while at least. hope life is being kind to you …
J
[darklineye@icloud.com]
No apology needed. I thought you might like his work, it’s pretty cool.
It’s to see you are back. : )
K
It’s nice to see you are back … editing fail … sorry …