red on

My delightful friend, Russian photographer and model "Armene" (real name Olga Zavershinskaya) has contributed her beauty, style and sense of humour previously to the Fields of Arbol, and this blog. With this new piece of hers, entitled Red On, she gives us a bright and fiery image that blossoms from her lips and the feather boas she drapes herself with.

Given usually to more puckish images and totally fearless in using her own nude form in her works, I found this piece charming and pleasantly restrained. Please take a look at her work sometime, she is well worth a visit.


red. red on white. on pink.
the colour, not of the kitchen sink
but the blood that represents passion
and life and love and pain and fire

fire. fire on red. on flesh.
catching us, metaphorically, to soar
with our senses, defenses ravaged
and our excuses savaged by our natures.

blood. blood on silk. on white.
the passage from innocence to the purity
in that red is not always a scarlet letter
but an embrace of sweet elegance. red.


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.