We Create the Sex Music (with my photo)

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Photo by SB - Model Leila Swan

We create the sex music
each performance a little
different from the previous

It always starts soft
an exhale then a soft, "mmmm"
I wait for the next

The sound of my hand
slowly running down your skin
almost without sound

You hear my breathing
as I kiss, nip, and lick all of you
I hear a sensual sigh

My lips, my hands, all
move in rhythm to your sighs
a cue to your pleasure

My fingers move down
the sex sound of your wetness
as I push deep in

You moan, louder, full
I feel your moan fill me deep
I want you, your moan

Lips move to your sounds
my tongue moves to your breathing
deep moans, so sexual

My fingers and lips
taste all of you, following
what your sighs direct

I hear the tension
each breath faster, each moan louder
my fingers move deep

Your lips open to give
release to the inner sex voice
the sound of release

Your hips move in rhythm
to each moan, each groan, each sigh
each scream of pleasure

The music grows softer
slower as the decrescendo
declines into silence

We only hear our
breathing, a soft moan, and our hearts
We created the sex music


SB


(EDIT NOTE - I originally published this with an unattributed photo I found in Google Images. I then remembered I had a better one with Leila (and you can see Hana's nose if you look really hard) that I would rather share.)

Sorry for the short blogs, but...

I've been eavesdropping in on and writing huge comments on another blog that is bringing up much more interesting topics than I have here. We are discussing in one post the merits (or lack of) bondage photography. In another, we are discussing the taboo of photographing the penis.

I really recommend you go check out "What We Saw Today" and "Any Fucking Day" to explore these points. I will write more in this blog over the weekend.

Oops. Do not criticize Anne Geddes.

At my class tonight, one of my fellow students asked me what I thought of Anne Geddes' photos, I answered before thinking. I looked at her and said, "Umm.. she uses colors well and has good exposures... and ..." then I shut up. I could tell that she reveres Geddes work. By her, and her friend's expressions, you would think I had insulted their mothers.

If you don't know who Anne Geddes is, here is her site. She is famous for taking photos of babies in unique settings. I will admit I thought her work was interesting when it first came out, but I feel she turned herself into a cliche that she keeps churning out with each new baby photo. I do salute her business savvy though. I wonder if she still enjoys photography as an art, or just a big fat sentimental paycheck. Maybe if I had kids I would like her photos more. I guess if her work inspires people to become photographers, that might be a good thing.

I usually post a photo with each blog post, but I could not bring myself to put one of her photos on my blog. Anyway, my lesson for the evening is to tread lightly when criticizing her work. I haven't been in this much trouble since I told a republican friend that I don't see why he and his friends idolize Ronald Reagan. I had better watch out what I say about Oprah as well.

Your Scent

Photo title and photographer unknown

Breathe in your perfume
sensual scent which invites
inviting me closer

Nuzzling your neck
smelling deep your hair,your skin
Our breaths grow rapid

I kiss down your body
your scents blending into lust
Your scent of lust fills me

Breathing sustains life
Your scent nourishes my desire
each breath makes me want

Your scent consumes me
today, tomorrow, 'til I die
your scent lives in me

SB

The Skin Feels

My skin feels it all
the warmth of her breasts on me
her soft skin with mine

I feel her breathing
I feel her contractions grow
I feel her wet release

My skin doesn't lie
but it can confuse what's real
and what is sensed

My skin remembers
My skin still feels it - years later
I then remember.

SB

Exaltation and Denial

Peace
SB

"Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously" - Albert Camus

This quote is very powerful to me. Whenever I create, view, or experience art that moves me I feel these two emotions, exaltation and denial. I can feel myself live in the art, yet I am denied actually living in it since art represents or conjures other things. In ways art is creative voyeurism/exhibitionism. We are peeking into another person's thoughts, feelings, visions, music, etc. If I am the artist, I am putting myself out on exhibit, but maybe only as an abstraction of what I am trying to share.

I think part of this was eluded to in this posting in the "What We Saw Today" blog titled "Crushes". In this post, the author talks about how, as a model, she has to deal with viewers and others developing a crush, fantasies, or strong emotional feelings for her. Art is so personal and by our sharing it with strangers, it gives them a feeling of intimacy that is only one way. In that way, they feel the exaltation and denial at the same time when we can not reciprocate their feelings.

Ouch, my head hurts. I think I am getting too philosophical tonight. I really need to photograph a model.

Art and Censorship

Albert Camus

Over the past week, a few blog friends have all related stories and opinions about censorship and art. I read their articles (listed here, here, and here) and commented on a few of them. Some were dealing with the high level issue of it and some had been censored.

I found a quote I wrote in my "idea" notebook I carry around to capture anything that strikes my fancy. I saw this quote by Albert Camus at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art a few months ago. I just reread it today and decided to research Camus and found a few more quotes by him and others as well. I am not an eloquent writer, so I will share what others have said about art and censorship.

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others." - Albert Camus

"The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it." -Albert Camus

"Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities." - Erica Jong

All I can say is - as long as art stirs our hearts, it will be hated by some who can not understand it.