The Image Envelope: the beloved

(from Heart, Image and Mapping: the old verities of the heart project)

Photography Sayaka Murayama (c) 2010 -  all rights reserved

Live model/ performer Angela Costa (c) 2010 -  all rights reserved

Text from "A  Lovers Discourse Fragments by Roland Barthes)

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THE IMAGE ENVELOPE - the beloved -

The beloved is resumed to an image,
a smooth envelope
which ceases the image of the beloved
which ceases the image of my desire – the other
A very gentle glove around the loved being…

1 - The beloved exist only in a image, which is no more, no less than the exact place of my desire ….

2 - the image envelope: a very gentle glove lovingly and fatally covering the beloved …

3 - Alteration

“… a trace of corruption. In the others perfect and “embalmed” figure/image …

“… the noise of a rip in the smooth envelope of the (beloved) Image …”

4 - Realization

“… when the image alters, the envelope of devotion rips apart! ..”

“… (I am temporarily de-fascinated, not without pain)….”

“ .. the horror of spoiling is even stronger than the anxiety of loosing …”