The Cost of Flying - More Steampunk

© Sybille Sterk

Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

This is quite a personal image to me. I am scared of heights and I'd love to fly just so I won't have to be scared of falling. However, this is also a conceptual image, about the dangers involved in flying (free), hence the scissors, on the other hand flying is it's own reward (hence the keys). Anything we do has a cost and unfortunately nothing is free but too often we feel the dangers even before we get close to experiencing them.

Images from a disc of royalty free public domain vintage images, with my own photos and brushes and a few freebies mixed it, all coloured and mashed up by me.

I'd love to know what you think about the image, so drop me a line or leave a comment. :-)

On Society6:

Sisters Under The Skin

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I've been reading so much about women's rights being abused everywhere in the world recently  - from Honduras to America we seem to lose all the hard earned rights to our own body and what to do with it. Read this article here and weep.

I was so upset and angry about this article and tried to think of why it made me so upset, and a large part of the reason is that these are 'my sisters' what happens to them happens to me and it shouldn't happen. The long history of women's rights (or the lack of them) has shown we only get things done, if we stick together.

So this is what this image is about. Sisters under the skin, no matter what colour or where we are. :-)

Credits

Model

• stella-5 by xstockx

Brush

• Hair brush set by para-vine 

 All other images etc my own.

This Is Who We Are

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Inspired by the stock image itself. I loved the strength in this and the absolute confidence.

For the generation of women who are who they are and who they want to be.

Credits

Red silk16 by faestock

Hair brush set by para-vine

All other images my own or bought stock.

Story Within A Story

 

 

This is a story within a story - it's the story of Jack the Ripper mutilating and killing prostitutes and other serial (women) killers like him but also the story of feminism. There's still a lot of fear and hate about and people are still boxing women in - from the models in the magazines (all looking pretty and ever so sexy) to women being told they cannot have abortions in the States... there's still a lot of work to do and some of it is realising that there is still a lot of work to do.

I am not saying no achievements have been made, but sometimes I wonder how deep they go and how many of the preconceptions and misconceptions of women seem to just have received different, more acceptable labels.

Illustration to go with my poem

Credits

Model

• Boxed 19 by Deathrockstock

Stock

• Nightstock 863 by Nightstock
• Doll Arm transparent png by AbsurdWordPreferred

Textures and Backgrounds

• Free blood splatter textures by khaosdog
• blood stains02 by temoc-stock
• Brick Wall by CaptainRedd-Stock
• Room in sepia by stocksbyannaforyou
• Daguerreo Texture Set by Shadowhouse
• 6 Faves Texture Sets 1 (Retro) by Shadowhouse

All other images/textures/brushes my own.

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