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on Sun 26 Jul 09, 2:31 PM to MarkVarley's blog.
| 26 Jul 09, 2:53 PM Scribbles UK(RH), 4 yrs |
A very interesting blog. Maybe preaching to the choir, to put it on here, but a good read anyway. I completely see what you mean about freedom and respect. I was most taken with the sentence, "My photographs are ingredients that mesh with the feelings of each individual viewer" - I see writing that way. Beauty itself is more problematic to me. I see it much more easily in landscapes, animals, and non-visual things, than in people. I see it in much older people and in children. I see it in androgynous men sometimes. Needless to say I'd rather not think it's not in me, but other than that it puzzles me. ETA I don't mean to say I don't like your pictures! I find them, as art, beautiful, and exciting too, but that feel distinct from their subjects somehow. I'd better stop digging... Edited 26 Jul 09, 3:30 PM by Scribbles | ||||
| 26 Jul 09, 4:26 PM stormywaters PT, 4 yrs |
Haven't read the OP yet, thought I'd read it having read you first, then you stop digging just as it gets interesting. Digging is good for you. Go on do some more... tempt tempt... My object all sublime... | ||||
| 26 Jul 09, 4:31 PM stormywaters PT, 4 yrs |
Ok, read the OP now. Coo you are a worse preacher than me! And I'm pretty bad. Agree with every word except maybe about the 75% being in them. Can be 100%, can be 0%. Always dodgy territory trying to sense that though. But makes me want to look at your photographs. My object all sublime... | ||||
| 26 Jul 09, 5:26 PM Jahc99 UK, 5 yrs |
Yup, nice blog Mark. I always say, it's what you put in the rope that makes it beautiful. Why poison your liver when I could eat it for you? | ||||
| 26 Jul 09, 7:54 PM MarkVarley UK(PE), 7 yrs |
I agree that sometimes the reflection can be 0% and anywhere up to 100%, my 75% quoted is a rough average having heard and read alot of poeple's thoughts and feelings when looking at my, and others, imagery. Thanks for your feedback. Mark | ||||
| 26 Jul 09, 9:50 PM MarkVarley UK(PE), 7 yrs |
 I've posted this in a few places today, IC is always a main place to share my thoughts on such things.
Digging is good, it means you're going to get somewhere (even if it is a big hole in the ground). Mark | ||||
| 26 Jul 09, 9:55 PM MarkVarley UK(PE), 7 yrs |
quite a few years ago someone commented that my bondage photography was different because it wasn't about the rope, it was about the person in the rope, thats easily overlooked, Bruce covered it recently in a talk/demo titled 'Tying people not parcels', a timely reminder. I love tying 'things' I tie things decoratively several times every day, creating little bits of ropey beauty, but it's all about the person, you are involved in a beautiful process and your rope is like jewellery or fine clothing, it accentuates the persons beauty and expresses them as a person, as well as the person tying. Mark | ||||
| 26 Jul 09, 11:20 PM knot_obsessed UK(NN), 6 yrs  |
From the perspective of a woman that loves to be tied (that would be me) then i understand totally the freedom of which you speak. In my opinion there is beauty in lots of things, not always the pretty young thing, but in the lines on a face, or the dew on grass, the smile of a child etc., When i look at pictures of rope (the things that drew me to rope in the first place) i see beauty in the ties, the people, there is 'something' about it that fascinates me, and that was way before i found out i enjoy being tied and i love to tie too (beginner here). I have to say my appreciation of rope started from you string flingers here on ic...from the beautifull images you all have uploaded and now my understanding of it has grown and i'm not quite obsessed yet, but definitely more and more absorbed.
Not everyone can understand what we get from it, why we do it, the old 'leather cuffs are quicker brigade' and try as i might i sometimes struggle to get across exactly what 'it' is myself. Perhaps the combination of beauty, art, bondage and yes erotic at times, the intimacy gained from being tied, the feel of it as it slides across my skin, his breath as he moves around me, close enough to feel the warmth of him, the gradual increase in pressure until i can't move (usually spacing at this point), sensual, damn i'm not finding the words right...but hey talking to the converted here anyway x An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett. | ||||
| 27 Jul 09, 3:30 PM slutling_angel 4 yrs |
I have always admired your work Mark. I enjoyed the photograph 'The Tools of The Trade'. Says it all. The one that really caught my eye was the lady in the shower.. now that to me shows many forms of beauty from the rope, water to, the nipples. NB I feel flushed with shyness admitted I admire your work. I have done for quite sometime now.
Congratulations on going as far as you have “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Edited 27 Jul 09, 6:10 PM by slutling_angel | ||||
| 28 Jul 09, 12:09 PM MarkVarley UK(PE), 7 yrs |
I'm all-for cuffs, both leather and metal, I have a few of each and when you want to simple restrain someone quickly they have no equal, but the act of restraint itself can be drawn out from 2 seconds to much longer, and then a whole world opens up, those of us who like that world, use rope Mark |
"I don't promote violence, I just encourage it."
