BEAUTY WITHIN THE MIDDLE

Marisa DeVonish
Dec. 3, 2012

actress & model

Marisa DeVonish
by NY based photographer D. Rotach
August 29, 2012

"The contrasts of beauty within the context of American life bring closeness to the ideals of a higher life, or the constraining forces of racial inequity, and imbalance. Either way the subject of beauty is the subject subjected to scrutiny not based upon beauty, the idea and the feel of it, but on the notions of beauty competing for status among the depression of spirit, and innovation, or the suppression of freedoms. Beauty is always centered or a part of discussions around the core value of a person, and people in general whether one is aware of her presence or not." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5.4.13

Emma Jane posing for Doll Deluxe
March 26, 2013

Mrs. Black North Carolina Sandra Dubose-Gibson 2

muscular body of Brittany Murata !!!!

Emma's vintage styles

Emma-Jane
September 7, 2012

www.bexterity.com    another look

Emma Jane has a lot of creative fun. Look at what she does with transformation: Before & AFTER

August 27, 2012

YESTERDAY, not long ago. . .

Emma-Jane
March 10, 2013

"45's, the Polaroid camera, the cabinet, the velvet pictures, the look of girls preening and dreaming about dates to the tunes from their record collections was as compelling then as now 60 some years later..." - Gregory E. Woods 4.11.13

CONTRASTS IN IMAGE

Emma Jane on Feb. 12, 2013

Emma Jane on Feb. 12, 2013

EMMA

Emma-Jane
Nov. 1, 2012

in the heat of the day
Feb. 1, 2013

her red shoes & black lines

march 13, 2013

PART 12

... an elegant tribute to a time, an idea, an ideal, and sensibility that planted a better idea of containment, or as my mother would have said, mystique within a girl, or a woman!

"A woman's mystique" Mommy would say, "served purposes sorely needed by today's young women who walk the streets, and corridors without a sense of style, of lifestyle that imagines life is exciting, and able to be dreamt as one walks, or invented as one dreams it!"

 - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5.4.13

Emma-Jane
Marach 13, 2013

Emma-Jane

Emma-Jane
August 27, 2012

www.bexterity.com

Emma-Jane
August 27, 2012

STANCE

Emma-Jane

March 13, 2013

PART 29

“You'll know the songs of the singer dancing within her soul, or the contemplation of the Muse by the poems she inspires. You'll hear her words as syllables of words unspoken in your native tongue, and think she is divine, or that divinity is a touch. The accessible codes of conduct in the physical world are not the ruling force in other worlds we gaze into when the veil thins between worlds not too long before our deaths.

A woman is the mystery of becoming. Her body holds secrets of bondage, and freedom, of birth and life, death and release, storm and tempest, peace, tranquility and the scope of life shapes within her in moments accessible through sex, intimacy, marriage, food preparation, the words of her man’s heart to her heart. The spiritual powers she holds are the energies formed to birth us into manhood and masculinity from the first tinges of vulnerability she inspires by her glance into our souls.” 

- Gregory E. Woods, 

Keeper of Stories 3.18.13

March 11, 2013
Emma-Jane