Lon came across this beautiful photograph taken by Shilo McCabe of genderqueer porn performer Jiz Lee draped in a feathered cloak:
Falcon-winged, fly windy ways!
It reminded me very much of this image of Freyja by Maris Pai, which is one of my favorite portraits of Freyja.
I realized immediately that my focus for this project is too narrow. I had been thinking of how to portray Freyja’s beauty in terms of ethnic diversity, and perhaps body-shape diversity, but I hadn’t thought gender diversity would work. And yet here it is, gorgeously rendered. I don’t believe the photographer or model actually had Freyja in mind (I could be wrong about the photographer, I don’t know!) but that just goes to show that Freyja’s beauty is everywhere, not just where we choose to place it.
If you are a visual artist of some kind, and especially if you are dedicated to a Deity of Beauty of some kind, join me in this project, depicting people as whichever Deity of Beauty you are dedicated to! Get out there and #ShowMeFreyja (Or, y’know #ShowMeAphrodite, #ShowMe[YourGodHere])
–Ember–
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That’s a great picture, definitively worthy of your #ShowMeFreyja project.
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This response is not quite in the spirit of what you’re asking, as it seems you’re asking for a real reverent depiction. However, I love this image below, partly because of it’s irreverence, partly because it brings Aphrodite into the mundane world. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/333125703659317891/
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Hee! I like it! I agree that it’s not quite what this project is about, but it’s cool. 🙂 -E-
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It’s less that I’m looking for reverence and more that I’m looking for diversity in beauty.
This, as you say, brings Aphrodite into the mundane world, but it doesn’t expand what She represents very much, in terms of human beauty. That, more than the irreverence, is why I say it’s not quite on for *this* project.
But it’s still really cool 😉
-E-
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