by Lisa Azarmi | Dec 1, 2021 | AWAKENING, CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE, FEMALE PORTRAIT, ILLUSTRATION
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” J. M. Barrie – Peter Pan, 1911. Catrin Welz Stein – Star Sailor.
by Lisa Azarmi | Nov 26, 2021 | COURAGE, DISAPPOINTMENT, FEMALE PORTRAIT
“After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.” Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary, 1856. Anna Airy – Monica Burnand, 1916.
by Lisa Azarmi | Nov 22, 2021 | BEAUTY, FANTASY, FEMALE PORTRAIT, HEARTBREAK, HOME, LOSS
‘Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can’t avoid. I mean my own body…Now it’s like an empty house.” C.S. Lewis...
by Lisa Azarmi | Nov 11, 2021 | FEMALE PORTRAIT, FRENDSHIP
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” Aristotle Gustav Klimt – Girlfriends, 1916-18.
by Lisa Azarmi | Nov 10, 2021 | AWAKENING, BEAUTY, BODY, ETERNAL LOVE, FEMALE PORTRAIT, LOVE, NUDES, POETRY
“Sonnet XVII I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never bloomsbut carries in...
by Lisa Azarmi | Oct 10, 2021 | ACCEPTANCE, FEMALE PORTRAIT
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” Augusten Burroughs Richard Edward Miller – Sewing By Lamplight, 1904.