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WILD IS LOVE February 05 2019, 0 Comments

Wild love breaks the rules. It's too wild and dark to exist in the living world. Fueled by obsession, violence, envy, jealousy, deceit, it often ends in death. Wild transgressive love stories weave themselves through history, in literature, opera, movies, in political arenas, on the streets, on the moors. It's timeless.   
                                   
     
 
Cleopatra and Mark Anthony's love was so undeniable and monumental that it threatened two of the world's greatest empires: the Roman Empire and the Greek Empire.  More recently, the love story and political thriller about the king of Serbia Alexander of Serbia and Draga Mašin ends in assassination in 1903. In Emily Brontë's tragic novel about self-betrayal and transgression, Wuthering Heights 1847, tells the story of two lovers unable to overcome their obsessions.

 

       

Georges Bizet                                           Nina Simone                                           Billie Holiday

Music is one of the most exciting ways to express wild love. Georges  Bizet's opera Carmen is a tale of seduction, abandonment, jealousy and murder, which began with the wild gypsy Carmen. Nina Simone compares her love to the wild wind.  Her fierce rendition of  Wild is the Wind soars to meet that wind.

 

Billie Holiday reminds us that Comes Love, nothing can be done.

 

Comes a rainstorm, put your rubbers on your feet
Comes a snow-storm, you can get a little heat
Comes love, nothing can be done
 

The 1992 novel The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje's is a tale of  undeniable wild love which in the end we understand that only the great wound of  doomed love.                                                       

 

Thinking about hidden love and wild love in this post and the last, I was inspired by images in nature. Here are some designs interpretations I've created which are available for your home on Society6.

 

 

Wild love! It's a wild ride. Is it worth it? You can only answer that yourself. After.

Hasta luego,
Val

  

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WILD IS LOVE Posted on February 05, 2019

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