Axillary fossa1, to be specific. A grand name for a body part that doesn’t ordinarily get a lot of love: a.k.a. “the armpit”.
This is a detail from a photo I posted recently. I like how, when taken out of context, it starts to look like wind-sculpted rock.
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1 Thanks are due to Jaime Mortimer for the word “fossa”. He discusses a sexier sort of fossa here.
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This is a really intriguing image, I spent a long time trying to work out what was what. I really love body abstracts like this
Mollyxxx
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Thank you. To my eye, it didn’t seem so abstract – I guess because I know what it is and can’t unsee that! It’s interesting that something as absolutely familiar as the human form is capable of producing abstracts.
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It is so interesting, I love how you have to sit and work out what you are looking at!
Velvet x
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Glad you like it! I do enjoy subtlety…
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I love this, it looks so abstract and textured I would not be able to guess 🙂
~Kazi xxx
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Thanks! Once I had it in black and white and started cropping/zooming, I noticed that the texture of the skin is really very similar to the texture of the painted wall behind it, which I thought was cool.
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A very interesting photo. Like Molly, I sat studying it, trying to work out what was what 🙂
Rebel xox
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I’m glad it piqued your interest 🙂
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Wow, this image really draws you in! The curve of your arm is lovely.
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Glad you were drawn in, and thank you!
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This is a really really amazing photograph and I love the original too.
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Thank you kindly.
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This really is abstract and makes that normally ignored part of the body intriguingly beautiful.
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Thanks! I find I have to make an effort not to see it as representational, so it’s neat to hear that everyone is finding it so very abstract. “Intriguingly beautiful” – I like it 🙂
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That’s a superb abstract!
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Thank you!
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Very clever . . . I keep coming back to it and looking again and again! Really interesting shapes and curves!!!
Xxx – K
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I’m glad you find the image compelling. I’m rather fond of those lines myself 🙂
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That is cool, and very creative!
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Thank you!
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Simply gorgeous. I love the shapes and lines you’ve created. And thanks for teaching me a new word!
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Thanks – I’m rather partial to those shapes and lines too 🙂 New words are always good!
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I love this. It’s so unusual and so beautiful.
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Thank you.
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Beautifully-captured shot! The detail is vivid and not something I’m used to seeing. And thanks for enlightening me; I’d somehow never heard – or at least hadn’t retained – the word “fossa” in all of my thirty-eight-plus years.
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Thank you! I can’t take too much credit for “fossa” – I only learned it recently myself, over on Jaime Mortimer’s blog.
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Thank you for name-checking my posts on fossae. Yours is beautiful. I bet your inter-gracile sub-pudendal fossa is a thing of absolute beauty and wonder, too.
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I wouldn’t bet against you…
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