'It takes courage to knowingly read a book that is challenging some of your cherished beliefs.'
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Challenging cherished beliefs is one of artist Richard Rothstein's specialities. Through his art, Richard has turned classic fairy tales and fables into modern truth testers and provoked viewers to look at Manhattan, to look at men and the long held myths about human behavior and male roles through his erotically powerful lens.
We've all seen the mainstream media's vision of a book club. It's usually bored older women, women whose children are off at college and busy with their own lives, and women whose husbands have long abandoned seeing their wives as desirable sexual beings.
In most film and television depictions of book clubs, these women come together, usually aided by several bottles of low priced Chardonnay, to commiserate their circumstances. The books themselves are usually not that important. Although they may dive into the works of Jane Austen or Charlotte Brontë, the club, like most clubs, is a temporary break from feeling so isolated and alone.
As expected, there are few similarities between the book club describe above, and the club that Richard so magnificently assembled together. Yes, it begins with a book, hard covered editions of classic novels, but the books are just act as merely a portal, a way and means to meld the minds, and relax the bodies of the three members of the club.
For this particular meeting of the members, there is no leader, only followers. Serg, Rhaamell and Zen all follow their sensual instincts, their desires and their passions in a transcendent ternion where all three parts are given equal attention and satisfaction.
Nothing that happened before the meeting matters, nothing which occurs after, is thought of or discussed. This meeting is all about the moment, the melding of bodies ad souls, re-energizing the core and spirit of each member, providing a sexual strength and confidence which lasts long beyond the carnal convergence.
See more of Richard's Book Club on PAGE 2 HERE:
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What a great shoot!
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