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~ Renaissance ~

" A lost soul wandering in the maze of the In-between worlds reborn with magic's grace and sinister charm of a dark priestess... "

Protagonists/models: Maria "Artemisia Absynthium" & Marie "Lady Mina"

Photoshooting, retouching & various visual effects: Ludovic Fabre

From an original idea of Maria Pleinecassagnes.

Shooting done the 10th of July 2011 in a majestic and wonderful place !

~ Renaissance ~ Open the book...

Page one ‟ A lost soul wandering in the maze of the In-between worlds reborn with magic's grace and sinister charm of a dark priestess... ‟

Artemisia Absynthium With Maria ‟Artemisia Absynthium‟...

Lady Mina ... And Marie ‟Lady Mina‟

The Sleeping Beauty The Sleeping Beauty

‟The Sleeping Beauty
She stops the bleeding in my soul...‟

Solitary Ground Solitary Ground

‟In me there's still a place that fulfils me
A sanctity here that I call home, I run to
When winter descends
If I try, can I find solid ground‟

Lilith Immaculate Lilith Immaculate

‟Tortuous one, taboos undone
A glittering star on a sea of myriad waves
And a thickening mist, a seductress
Leading lovesick hearts astray

Lilith immaculate‟

Tristeza Tristeza

‟ In this time remember me
I miss your hands on my skin

Don't you remember me?
Promises and lost dreams

Two spirits come to me
My death, I could see it
Don't control my Tristeza
Give me my life, again ‟

Alone Alone

‟ Let me die, I cried as the curtain fell
And I stared in woe at the world before me
My weeping eyes could not bear to tell
Or the shattered kingdom in ruins before me

What became of the lands that were?
A pearl in the nest of memories
Forever gone...departed by the minds of man

I’m all alone in the grip of the silent sadness ‟

... A Distance There Is... ... A Distance There Is...

‟ Thou let'st me be parched
My heart is of frailty, my pale skin is hued damask.
When thou thy tears hast hidden, ‟Come back!‟, thou sayest
There I soon am to be, but how am I to run when my bones, my heart!
Thou hast me bereaft! ‟

Mourning Tree Mourning Tree

‟ Tell him through the winds I am here
Whisper through the breeze not to fear
Taste it by the rain what I feel when you hold me
Reach out for the winds that we share
Then you will feel I am near
Taste it by the snow, I am here where you left me

I told to the mourning tree ‟

Anywhere Out Of The World Anywhere Out Of The World

‟ We scaled the face of reason
To find at least one sign
That could reveal the true dimensions
Of life lest we forget

And maybe it's easier to withdraw from life
With all of it's misery and wretched lies
Away from harm ‟

Pale Enchantress Pale Enchantress

‟ My pale enchantress of the night
at last my candle's burning down
The wintermoon is shining bleak
for thee my enchantress

Enchanting all my dreams
a beauty and her flood of tears
Nightfall embrace my heart
mesmerized and ravendark ‟

Ad Astra Ad Astra

‟ I have everywhere sought
and nowhere found
So I lift the bleedin` bodkin
And thrust the grief deepest in

The gleaming bodies of infinite skies
Have for my spirit
The cold charm
Of death`s welcoming eyes
In secret to my soul
They are Ideals of old ‟

A Caress Of Stars A Caress Of Stars

‟ A caress of stars
A silhouette in the twilight sky
The daybreak sets on silver seas
My name echoes through crimson hills

On the horizon where seas meet clouds
A scenery shimmers beyond reality
I glance a world as a recent lit star
I am swallowed by universe ‟

Among Majestic Ruin Among Majestic Ruin

‟ I will dream under a blacksun
No shelter to hide my skin
Tainted rain will taste so pure
Like black painted earth

I can see beyond my time
Cast my disgrace on fall
Foretell my name in honor
Under a black dawning sun ‟

The Silence Of Light The Silence Of Light

‟ I heal my wounds in
the orchard of misery
Where the fruits and the trees
have turned to dust.
Be merciful, my Lord.
The meadows of Light and Pulchritude
Are blackened and soiled ‟

Lost Control Lost Control

‟ Yes, I am falling... how much longer till I hit the ground?
I can't tell you why I'm breaking down.
Do you wonder why I prefer to be alone?
Have I really lost control? ‟

Pity The Sadness Pity The Sadness

‟Morning's calm inside I cry
This painful life has raped my mind
Take me down, slow release
From Sorrow's penetration
Morning...‟

Now & Forever Now & Forever

‟ Thousands of miles through the cold stormy air
There's really nothing that I wouldn´t dare
I climb the eye of the hurricane
When the winds are whispering your name ‟

The Silent Force The Silent Force

‟ Hear the silence
Reach out my blame
Will our strength remain?
If the power rise ‟

The Passage The Passage

‟ Variety of thoughts, deep within my mind
Memories from the past
Lost in the labyrinth in front of walls I stand
Fairies dressed in white the message is to die

Find the passage, the passage to the light ‟

Nebula Queen Nebula Queen

‟The gloomy temptress appears
My void filled with temptation
Whispering as thou reveal thine origin
Thrust me thou said
Fear me not
I relinquished my soul
Cause thy name was temptation‟

The Word Made Flesh The Word Made Flesh

‟ It looks to kill
And fails to wait in sight
It twists me from inside
Carry all, heal the sore, I can no longer bleed ‟

A Poisoned Gift A Poisoned Gift

‟We have experienced an aged potion
The wine of life which stole us light
May we gather again and be as one
And to forever relish in the twin joys
As we taste from the poisoned gift of love‟

An Elixir For Existence An Elixir For Existence

‟Give me something for my mind
Something for the pain inside
A remedy, a cure for life
An elixir for this manica of mine‟

From Darkest Skies From Darkest Skies

‟I'm in pain
And I don't know why
Under heavy rain
From darkest skies‟

A Sequel Of Decay A Sequel Of Decay

‟In decadence I take thee by the hand
Too frail... To gain the promised land
Too frail... To take your pain away
Too frail... A sequel of decay‟

Of Chaos And Eternal Night Of Chaos And Eternal Night

‟Tearless in nondescript form
Scarlet secrets tell of nightmarish fear
Illusions that speak of endless night
A venture in terms of one hazardous journey
Into chaos and eternal night‟

Summoning Of The Muse Summoning Of The Muse

Her Ghost In The Fog Her Ghost In The Fog

‟Putting reason to flight
Or to death as their way
They crept through woods mesmerized
By the taffeta ley
Of her hips that held sway
Over all they surveyed
Save a mist on the rise
A deadly blessing to hide
Her ghost in the fog‟

A Midnight Gathering A Midnight Gathering

‟In the woods we met you, stranger
Now it's time to say goodbye
Like all the stars that lead the blind
We're hiding with the morningrise‟

Calling On The Wind Calling On The Wind

‟ The sweet door of the dreams is open again
Tonight all my love will flow through your veins
You're my constant vision, reflect of my heart
I remember your eyes that never say goodbye ‟

Black Sun Black Sun

‟ Black Sun rising over mankind
All the Slavegods will be sunblind
Sorath shining through his new priest
who proclaim the rise of The Beast ‟

Dusk And Her Embrace Dusk And Her Embrace

‟ When the sun has wept upon the waveless lake
And the mists steal in with ease
Covened wolves are their eerie dissonant napes
In adoration of the moon and thee ‟

‟ Through twilight, darkness and moonrise
My scarlet tears will run
As stolen blood and whispered love
Of fantasies undone‟

Countess swathed in ebony
And snow-white balletic grace
Rouge-filmed lips procure the wish
For lust and her disgrace

Dusk and her embrace ‟

Your Hand In Mine Your Hand In Mine

‟Your hand in mine
We'll reach the sign of plains above us
Your hand in mine
Unholy times of pain relentless‟

The Drapery Falls The Drapery Falls

‟ I'm counting nocturnal hours
Drowned visions in haunted sleep
Faint flickering of your power
Leaks out to show what you keep

Pull me down again
And guide me into... ‟

Tearing The Veil From Grace Tearing The Veil From Grace

‟ Biblical choirs soar beyond veiled light
A swansong for ravens trapped flapping in night

A tragic yet magickal fall from grace
Too awful to taste for the led and the chaste
Those whose long fetters are addressed to all saints

Free shining souls torn from God's given Reich
Defiled, reviled, exiled from sight ‟

Birth Of Venus Illegitima Birth Of Venus Illegitima

‟ Aphrodite is rising from the shell a newly born
To be seen, to expel from the paradise,
To drink from her well.

Aphrodite is falling into the hell of (her) sins
And the lust, for that spell of the forbidden
Nectar from her well

O Venus illegitima
Born again ‟

The Lady Wore Black The Lady Wore Black

‟ In the distance I saw a woman
Dressed in black with eyes of grey
She wore her pain like a shackled spirit
Eternal life was her debt to pay

The lady wore black
Its the sign of the prisoners lives
The lady wore black
See the years through the tears in her eyes
The lady wore black
Her mystic power calls to me
The lady wore black
Her love can set me free ‟

Two For Tragedy Two For Tragedy

‟ No healing hand
For your disease
Drinking scorn like water
Cascading with my tears

Beneath the candle bed
Two saddened angels-in heaven, in death ‟

Shadow Duet Shadow Duet

‟ A duet of shadows, a duet of thoughts
Of beings we feed with the dust of our thoughts
Residing within us, the twofold wheel of life
Of insight created: a triad of Jewels

Clavicula Nox Clavicula Nox

‟ Dark horizons come close to me and
Magic will be my key
I will travel through the gate
To be the finder of my fate
Nox, the night and key I will open your old mystery.
Key of night, open up! ‟

Sistinas Sistinas

‟ I lost my soul,
Deep inside.
And it's so
Black and cold,
Deep inside.

The sun don't shine.
The wind won't blow,
When you go hide.
And without your love,
I'm lonely deep inside. ‟

The Eternal Sleep The Eternal Sleep

‟ Life is gone
Beautiful, suffering
My eyes drown, in delusion

My body paled and cold, let the
Silence bloom I never will arise
In your arms again ‟

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