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Pleasure & Pain

It's a fine line

Recent Work

Mask of Pain by David Dutton

Got this drama mask in Venice. Didn’t realise how pained he looked till I took this photograph.
Pain by David Dutton

Taken on the promenade in Barcelona. He sat down, gasped and lay back. Whatever it is, it looks painful. Poor senor.
Writing

Love With Abandon…Our eyes meet / Time stands still. / Everything / Everything / Stops.

Recalling when love had the power to move mountains, stop clocks and feed the starved soul. Even when you were apart, just knowing your significant other was out there loving you as you love them was enough to burst your chest wide open with the overwhelming love that poured forth. The power of it! Magnificent!
Writing

When The Way Is Lost...…This that reeks of death by boredom in office haiku; down with artistry, creativity, free thought… / ... message like morse code tappi…

October 8 2009 It seems like no matter what I do I can’t lose this nagging sense of all is not well with me. In fact the sense is so strong I feel no small amount of anxiety. No matter what changes I make, my heart still keeps on at me. I wrote this piece after I did in fact post that very Facebook status. Funny what can inspire… Also of inspiration Office Haikus heard at a recent work conference, with the topic employee engagement: “I sit wondering; / Can someone die of boredom? / Only time will tell.” I find it and others inordinately funny! While there is definitely an element that is serious, it is meant to be fun, it certainly helped improve my mood!
Writing

Final Curtain Call…I scream out loud but no one heard me / Thought people were just ignoring me / That’s when I realized it was just my heart / Screaming and …

3am – Couldnt sleep, Tried to stop myself from crying and THIS is the outcome
Writing

Colorless love…With the noose around his neck, / she starts to let out screams. / They hold her head to watch / as she prays it’s just a dream.

Love comes in many shapes, forms, colors. Unfortunately in our country long ago, it wasn’t accepted in this form. Now it is and its a beautiful thing, I am a illustration of that love. It shouldn’t matter what color you are because love is blind. I just thought I would write something showing the reality of that awful past time but show the factual love behind it.
THE HOLY VIRGIN OF LUST by Roberto Duran

roberto duran on photography / THANKS TO / tara on MHW and MODEL
Shakona Smile by Belinda Leopold

Miss Shakona has the whole world ahead of her-She’s young, Beautiful and Extremely Intelligent. I wish her all the very best for the future-It’s in the palm of her hands :) / Taken on the Torrens River, Adelaide SA.
Writing

Lavender bath…Stripped bare of all adornments that symbolise who she is / Wife / Mother / Daughter / Sister / Grand daughter / Just being her bare self ...
the most precious thing in life... by Angel Warda

a child Me & my daughter Tatianna (20 days old) November 2009…featured in First Things and Affection
Anthea Slade......Australian Beauty by Reynaldo

2009 Acrylic on 140 lb. Watercolour paper 18×24” Anthea Slade….. Australian Beauty was Featured in Inspired By Life Aug 09 / This is a portrait of dear friend, talented and brilliant artist, poet, writer and collabrator Anthea…..in Passion Series I have been working off her clever drawings, and ideas for this series…..of 16 paintings, drawing, poems. I painted this portrait a couple of months ago, it is not part of this series….. hope you enjoy it as much as I did in painting it. Thank you Anthea Australian Beauty
not sad....just thinking by Explosive

I tried to hide the huge ears of mine with the scarf over my head….but now it looks like i tried to make it more religious. Hm. U get what i mean. / Oh, and check out the lil glitters on the eye lashes! Its the golden 2-way Max Factor mascara.

About This Group

Pleasure and Pain is an artistic journey touching on every single emotion we as human beings ever experience. Whether its grief, loss, depression, agony, pain, lust, laughter or happiness, we seek your artistic expression of an intense emotion. We’d love for these raw emotions to be displayed in images we can see written on your face, your body, in your movements, or vividly portrayed in your writing. We want to see them and read them…and therefore…feel them along with you.

There is method in our madness. But is there method in yours?

Come in. Join. Lay yourself bare.

PLEASE DO NOT submit photos of landscapes, buildings, seascapes, of faraway lands, you get the drill. Don’t get us wrong, these are lovely photographs, but they are not appropriate for this group. We are looking for images/artwork/writing that show specific intense human emotion preferably with the human face and form or in written form with intense vivid imagery.

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