Grafted Virtues


Neo-Tokyo
Lost in the speeding neon city night. Burning, blurred lighting: warped colors with tungsten, florescent, and other tones


Anguissette
The purity of physical pain mingled with the sublety and sensuous nature of desire. Lash marks visible through the gaps in the garments.


Chaste
Yearning trapped in stillness. White garb and birdcages


Our Second Hearts
Vulnerable and introspective. Based on this passage from the Dogs of Babel: "'I dreamed they cut me open and found I had two hearts. The second one was small, and it was a different color. It was hidden underneath the main heart, so they didn't see it at first. I was very surprised when they told me about it, but the doctor said it was completely normal. He said that most people have two hearts, we just never know it.'
It's true isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled up behind a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day... It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all."


Le Petit Appetit
Glamour a la french decadence. Baby blues, creams, black. Polonaise jacket (either a black Kambriel design or a custom made blue/gold), nude stockings attached via garter belt. Pale pink lips, smokey wicked eyes, curled hair. Sultry poses atop a table laid with cakes and other delectables.


Oh Valerian Bitter
Refuge in the worlds of sleep. Bruised brown/mauve eyes and lips, a pallor to the skin, slumber buried in rushes and dead flowers.


Les Betes Noires
The grime of the soul: ennui, schadenfreude, malevolence. Triptych project. Smudged dark makeup, ragged attire, grungy-sparse setting.


Tyger Tyger
Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night
What fearful hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?


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A running tally and concept boneyard, obviously, of the most formulated of the many sets I want to do. This'll be amended as collaborator openings are spoken for, dates set, and material amassed.
When a concept is totally in the clear, and the details concrete as possible, the shoot date will be posted in the front journal.