Abduction
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Creator
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Corinna
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Story
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Double-layered cyanotype photographs toned with tea on cotton; toned cyanotype on silk
Abduction
We agreed that lover’s locks left on bridges were a plague on good taste, but there we were: happy-tipsy on Florence’s Ponte Vecchio. We thought it a laugh when I pulled the small padlock from my camera bag. You borrowed a waterproof black marker from another couple. We squeezed our lock in with hundreds of others beneath the statue of sculptor Benvenuto Cellini.
Off the bridge, we rounded the corner, hand in hand. We stopped. There was Cellini’s sculpture of a smug Perseus, sword in one hand, the bloody head of the snake-haired Medusa in the other. There was Giambologna’s sculpture of a woman struggling in her abductor’s arms. Lovers, smug in their bright cocoon, are blind to irony.
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Rights Holder
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Corinna
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All rights reserved.
