Charlotte Cherry

 

Photomontage with doll.

She was a Secretdoll Momo, from around late 2008. Her name, Charlotte Cherry. For some reason, she posessed such an incredibly soft spot for my kitty, Mirlo, although he wasn't altogether taken with her, poor thing.

My lovely friend Marinkel wrote some of the little accompaniments to each piece, for a series which I entitled "Secret Girls'. I thought it would be nice to include some samples here: they were supposed to pertain to a particular image, but I haven't had time to compile them all accordingly, so the following are just a mish mash of sections which I pulled from the series:

 

I shall probably set to work creating a little gallery for these quite soon.

xxx

Feathered dark in thought

Red Haired Girls

 Red Muses

Islands of the Mad

Digital illustration.

I wanted to present them as large as possible, so please forgive the intrusive watermarks.

Title inspired by the colleced poems of Sylvia Plath.

Especially:

"....In faith

we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail

among sacred islands of the mad till death

shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real."

(Tale of a Tub)

"There is a panther stalks me down:

One day I'll have my death of him;

His greed has set the woods aflame,

He prowls more lordly than the sun.

Most soft, most suavely glides that step,

Advancing always at my back;

From gaunt hemlock, rooks croak havoc:

The hunt is on, and sprung the trap."

(Pursuit)

"...Feathered dark in thought, I stalk like a rook,

brooding as the winter night comes on."

(Winter Landscape, With Rook)

xxx