Art: "A Double-Edged Sword"
This is a collage I made back in 1997 when I was learning Photoshop (starting to, that is. I'm still learning Photoshop!). It's about female sexuality, in case all the fruit doesn't make that apparent. Oh, my clever and ungodly serious 10-years-younger self! And I really called it the title shown up above, even though that's clearly a butter knife I've stuck into everything. I'm still quite fond of this image, though. I find the big stern lady unnerving, but as I recall, that was my intention.
Anyway, the source images are...hm. Big stern lady is some Gainsborough or other, little girl is Gainsborough's daughter (chasing a butterfly in the original...surprised I didn't work that in!). I'm pretty sure that's Mary Stuart being guided to the chopping block, and the nonchalant gal in the corner sure looks like she's by Alma-Tadema. As for the fruit images, god knows - something in a Christie's catalog, most likely, from the golden age of fruit pictures (17th century). Nowadays I'm careful about attribution, of course, but back in the dark ages it didn't occur to me to keep track.
