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Oevfie, the daughter of an ancient Irish family from the Northwest coast, contemplates the slums, where she devotes herself to the poor. She thinks back to the rolling hills and the rough sea on her father's estate, and she remembers a pair of dark violet eyes, and she feels the wildness in her.
Photo by Miwa Nisho
Her lover Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, has cruelly abandoned her. Pallid with mother love, Hamlet obsesses over his mother's marriage to his uncle. Distraught, Ophelia swoons to the frigid marble floor of Elsinore castle. Clutching a sprig of rosemary in her left hand, Ophelia contemplates a watery death.
Photo by Safra Fatimi
Odette dances at the Crazy Horse in Paris. Imbued with a sense of the absurdity of life, Odette entertains her fellow performers with pithy comments about the government. Her gorgeous gangster boyfriend from Marseilles has just been sentenced to a term on Devil's Island. Odette has her eye on a blue-eyed, blond safe cracker from Alsace.
Photo: Spring 2000 Collection by Dan Cooper
Rasputina provides love philters for the lonely hearted of her Siberian village. The daughter of an alchemist, Rasputina drew from her father's secrets to create her wondrous potions. Enamoured of a tubercular piano teacher, Rasputina takes a philter herself. She awaits the impending adagio.
Photo by Katherine Gillen
Scottish poetess Mavis McPherson dons her black satin blindfold to invoke the muse, before reading her work to the red-bearded, lusty Laird of Killoren. Later, under a black sky over the loch, Mavis meets a strange man. He asks her, "Which is the way to love?" She shows him the way. When he awakes in the morning dew, she is gone.
Photo by David Brommer
At court, her royal regalia is a garment the color of the Nile, worn over the markings of the leopard. She is the Sudanese Queen Nyala, deeply despondent because her people are at war with a neighboring country. She fears for her lover, a warrior in the throes of battle. Will he return?
Photo: Spring 2000 Collection by Dan Cooper
