Wednesday, December 07, 2005

"Erotic" Bible Calendar

Read more about it here.
Sometime around eleven years ago I actually had an idea for a series of pictures depicting images from the bible with an erotic touch.
For example, I had an image of a stupefied Samson being straddled by a nude Delilah who had a lock of his hair in one hand and a knife for shearing in the other.
Another image, and, I think, the one that inspired the idea for the series in the first place, was of the Devil enfolding Eve in his wings and holding up the apple…which Eve was licking.
It should come as a surprise to no one that, despite doing a couple of preliminary sketches, the idea didn’t progress much past the idea stage, and soon I moved on to another idea which I promptly abandoned before moving on to the next.
It’s always sort of a bittersweet experience when I see that someone hits upon an idea that I didn’t follow through on and actually does something with it. In one way it’s gratifying to think that maybe I am able to come up with interesting, thought-provoking ideas every so often, but it’s also frustrating that I’m not able to do anything with them myself.

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