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Kristin Fouquet is a photographer and writer from lovely New Orleans. Her photography appears in online journals and magazines, on chapbook and book covers, on album artwork, and occasionally in galleries. When not behind the camera, Kristin writes literary fiction and is the author of six books. Visit Le Salon
Love the flow of this image!
Thanks so much, Lewis!
“Flow” Yes, exactly. In my editor’s letter I wrote “Life is movement. Art is movement with influence, direction, and response.” I wasn’t consciously thinking of this photograph when I wrote that, but I had been viewing it shortly before the thought came to me. Maybe…
Captivating image, Kristin. The multiple images of the skeletons give them a haunting animation. For some reason, it makes me think of the surrealist painting ” Creation of the Birds” by Remedios Varos. Perhaps it’s that she depicts birds too, lifting in flight from her page.
In my hybrid poem here, I have a line: “my limbs and torso unclassifiable as natural in origin”, as well as imgery about migrating birds. It feels as if your photo & my poem are somehow in dialogue with each other …