I like the idea of divinity.
Divinity of the soul, divinity of the body.
The idea life can flourish in my womb and in my fingertips.
I like it.
Buddhism states that we have to remove pain from our souls in order to reach nirvana.
It also claims that the origin of pain is desire, so in order to erase pain we should erase desire.
But I do not want to erase desire.
Pluck it with tweezers, no...
Desire is divine.
I believe we can reach nirvana
through it.
Desire
and its sour and juicy flavour
of blooming blood.
There is not an only way to paradise,
do not let them fool you...
There is not
just a big golden gate
to the biggest of pleasures...
To enter paradise maybe we could
make it through the cat flap...
as long as we go
happy-go-lucky as drunk flappers,
as long as we
go hand in hand,
desiring as sinners do,
with our dancing feet like the hanged,
with our dancing hearts like the loved...
© Text: Victoria Bardot, 2013
Images (in order of appearance): Dior 2011, Hedy Lamarr (unknown photographer) Gautier 2007.
Divinity of the soul, divinity of the body.
The idea life can flourish in my womb and in my fingertips.
I like it.
Buddhism states that we have to remove pain from our souls in order to reach nirvana.
It also claims that the origin of pain is desire, so in order to erase pain we should erase desire.
But I do not want to erase desire.
Pluck it with tweezers, no...
Desire is divine.
I believe we can reach nirvana
through it.
Desire
and its sour and juicy flavour
of blooming blood.
There is not an only way to paradise,
do not let them fool you...
There is not
just a big golden gate
to the biggest of pleasures...
To enter paradise maybe we could
make it through the cat flap...
as long as we go
happy-go-lucky as drunk flappers,
as long as we
go hand in hand,
desiring as sinners do,
with our dancing feet like the hanged,
with our dancing hearts like the loved...
© Text: Victoria Bardot, 2013
Images (in order of appearance): Dior 2011, Hedy Lamarr (unknown photographer) Gautier 2007.
