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The creative progression of Steve Cordero’s Helena

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who needs no introduction. ;) :babeando::very_hot:
 

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Helena does have a backstory, that of a 1st century CE freedwoman in the Roman province of Hispania, who was framed by her lover for murder and crucified.

Steve did the above Helena version in 2009. As an example of the evolution of his style, here’s the first version from 2002.

Less refined, perhaps, but far more in-your-FACE. :eeek::babeando::very_hot:
 

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Contemporary artist Anthony Ackrill


isn’t a crux artist as such, but his "Faith" is an (insert superlative adjective here) example of Rachel Anderson's concept of "prurience and piety."


And no, I haven't the slightest idea if Ms. Anderson is into crux. :rolleyes:
 

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Contemporary artist Anthony Ackrill


isn’t a crux artist as such, but his "Faith" is an (insert superlative adjective here) example of Rachel Anderson's concept of "prurience and piety."


And no, I haven't the slightest idea if Ms. Anderson is into crux. :rolleyes:
I have a problem with that pic, the girl seem to contradict gravity, has her butt attached to the cross with glue?
 
I have a problem with that pic, the girl seem to contradict gravity, has her butt attached to the cross with glue?
And the nails are through her hands, not wrists. Dfg, she’s meant to be artistic, not realistic. For realism, see Jedakk, Quoom, Yusebby, Damian, and others.
 

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I’ll vote @jucundus, @SkatingJesus , @crumera , and @hornet1ba for kings of the “realistic agony” category.

I would also like to thank all of them just how much they have helped me with my art! Not just for the inspiration, but the helpful pointers on lighting, posing, and composition. And just how many girls they nailed up for me! Here are Some girls absolutely suffering in agony, nailed to crosses, at my request! I may have given them some toys to play with,,,

2020 was a hell of a year, but it was made far, far worse for these poor girls!
 

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Hufkens was a founder of this forum, though I would argue the old Crux group was more the precursor than the Crucified Women website, which came well after that was founded. An odd fellow, I wonder what he's up to now? He had a site before Crucified Women, as far as I remember, and it was there that I first saw his manips, before I ever did my own.

As for the Makar b&w, when I found these it was as if I had found the motherload, this was what I had been looking for, and his work has never been surpassed.

Here's another selection of aesthetic cruxees

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I agree. These are all (except for maybe the last pic) very erotic. My personal favorite crux images show the female figure stretched out and hanging from fully extended arms so that shoulder and arm muscles are well-defined. The image has to convey the sensation of hanging or that of a delicate balance between hanging from one's arms and support underneath from position of legs and feet. No fair standing on anything. A footblock, if used, must be angled. At all times there must be fearful tension in the woman's arms and shoulders. If she's truly hanging, this would be the case.

Tits high and arms stretched. Yes! That's insanely erotic! I find the female arm and shoulder to be particular erogeneous zones for me.

These images show what turns me on:

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I agree. These are all (except for maybe the last pic) very erotic. My personal favorite crux images show the female figure stretched out and hanging from fully extended arms so that shoulder and arm muscles are well-defined. The image has to convey the sensation of hanging or that of a delicate balance between hanging from one's arms and support underneath from position of legs and feet. No fair standing on anything. A footblock, if used, must be angled. At all times there must be fearful tension in the woman's arms and shoulders. If she's truly hanging, this would be the case.

Tits high and arms stretched. Yes! That's insanely erotic! I find the female arm and shoulder to be particular erogeneous zones for me.

These images show what turns me on:

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View attachment 948697View attachment 948698View attachment 948699View attachment 948700 View attachment 948701This last one is perhaps the hottest crux image for me. Exceptional feminine crux beauty.
Dirk, it didn’t register consciously when I saw my very first crux image

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but you describe precisely the intense, damn near crazed erotic jolt I felt. And still feel. :eeek: :babeando::very_hot:
 
Mind you, "Imitation of Christ" crux pictures like Montycrusto's Montycassino's can be hot as molten tungsten too. :babeando: :very_hot:

(Update: bobinder discreetly corrected my attribution. Thanks guy. ;) )
 

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I agree. These are all (except for maybe the last pic) very erotic. My personal favorite crux images show the female figure stretched out and hanging from fully extended arms so that shoulder and arm muscles are well-defined. The image has to convey the sensation of hanging or that of a delicate balance between hanging from one's arms and support underneath from position of legs and feet. No fair standing on anything. A footblock, if used, must be angled. At all times there must be fearful tension in the woman's arms and shoulders. If she's truly hanging, this would be the case.

Tits high and arms stretched. Yes! That's insanely erotic! I find the female arm and shoulder to be particular erogeneous zones for me.

These images show what turns me on:

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View attachment 948697View attachment 948698View attachment 948699View attachment 948700 View attachment 948701This last one is perhaps the hottest crux image for me. Exceptional feminine crux beauty.

Absolutely agree with you, Dirk, that is the essence of crucifixion. The body musculature enhanced by the stress of the cross, soft curves contrasting with straining limbs and torsos. A little underarm hair is a bonus :)

That last one of yours is Red Feline I believe

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I hope the glue is biodegenerable, else we have a serious environmental problem.
I'm more concerned about how weather resistant it is - I mean it might be fine in Judea where it doesn't rain very often and when it does, it's a sorry excuse for precipitation, but here in Wales, we have proper, full-on wannabe monsoon conditions for around 11 months out of 12 - Let's see how well this stuff holds up against some real weather :)

(Hint - it doesn't)
 
As much as I also like the goddesses: Nothing is hotter than a crucified girl considered totally unremarkable by the sadistic crowd.
Then you’ll like this one, which I long ago commissioned from the late, great Demullotto.

Not even a crowd, just two jaded male passersbys.
 

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Sidebar: Albert Pénot


was an artist whose oeuvre involved female creatures of the night. His versions of The Bat Woman

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work well as vampire erotica. Her posture also makes her what we used to call a prime crux candidate. :babeando:

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Her eyes are downright unnerving too. :eeek:

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I agree. These are all (except for maybe the last pic) very erotic. My personal favorite crux images show the female figure stretched out and hanging from fully extended arms so that shoulder and arm muscles are well-defined. The image has to convey the sensation of hanging or that of a delicate balance between hanging from one's arms and support underneath from position of legs and feet. No fair standing on anything.
Agreed, here are a few more classics that do it right.

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Damian’s circa 2000 crucifee puts in mind The Bat Woman and another manip almost certainly misattributed to Arcimboldo.

And this is a case where, for me at least, aesthetics trumps reality. A person hanging from their arms like this would asphyxiate within an hour, bringing the proceedings to a premature close.

But the fantasy of a beautiful woman's naked body stretched and on display like this for hours or days is worth the suspension of disbelief. :babeando: :very_hot:
 

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Another nakedly displayed lady, this one a very early Quoom render which has punched my libido buttons for going on two decades. :babeando:
 

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