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33 RPMsThe headphones my brother handed to me were so big that they seemed to engulf my entire head when I put them on. Big, black and cushy...they consumed my ears and sucked me into a void where nothing else existed except the music he was about to play. I remember sitting on the edge of the bed anxiously, tugging at my knee socks and waiting for the snap and crackle of the needle to strike the edge of the vinyl record. It would steal my breath away, never failing to sweep me away into a journey that was better than Alice and Wonderland. It was like sneaking a peek at the splatter flick on late night television. It was getting away with stealing a

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The Engagementby `Foxfires

Digital Art / Photomanipulation / Fantasy

© Aimee Stewart, Foxfires - please see my CC Terms of Use [link] before considering using this image for any personal or commercial use.
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“But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”
― Pablo Neruda

Inspired by the Dinotopia books, and other things...

I've been researching and collecting numerous public domain images of 19th century paintings, and scientific illustrations. So many of their details are rich and captiving! I've been intrigued with the notion of combining them with photomanipulation, and have done so in small ways with other works. This, however, is the largest I've done to date. CARL WERNER(1808 - 1894) is one of the Orientalist artists that I've sampled, along with a few others that I've spent hours hunting down. That, combined with an elephant from Wikimedia Commons, some of my own imagery, some hand painting, and some brushes from the lovely

gives you what you see here.