Cut Me

MCN: CYRGA-TE9U3-XWLF5

This one is an interpretation of Rapunzel, still going with the fairytale theme here.... Made me think about hair and how the power is 'ours' as long as we cut it, but not when someone else cuts it, then it diminishes us (i.e. what they used to do to women to 'mark' them as prostitutes). I remember some fairytales I read a long time ago, where the only way to 'cure' a witch was by cutting off her hair, she'd become a normal woman then. There is power in hair and the length of it...

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0176

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Rapunzel's Lament

Re-telling of the fairy tale Rapunzel - my way. See the poem here.

This was created in part to accompany my poem of the same name and as an entry in a challenge for the Photo Manipulator's group on Redbubble.

Unfortunately I was too late to enter my image, but I thought 'since I've started, I might as well finish'. :-)

One stipulation of the challenge was to use all the images from the following image set on Flickr:

Credits

Model

• bond girl18 by rammkitty-stock

Stock and Background

• scissors II by missalmost000
• Braid by NiennaAlatariel
• frame 1 by night-fate-stock

Textures

• Garden by SolStock
• mossy wall by thespook
• psychosomatic texture by Princess-of-Shadows
• Texture 57 by Inadesign-Stock
• Texture 4c by lusete

Brushes

• Hair brush set by para-vine

All other images, textures, brushes, stock my own.

MCN: CMXE9-GWA9E-JF1UL