Rage series

CP 000_11 11-10-2016
Hello everyone! The new Anthology series from which we present the first issue in the shop this week, is one that is particularly close to my heart! You see, as I started to draw bondage, in the old days, just for my own entertainment, from the very start I had a different perspective than a lot of the artists who's work I admired. This was before I had encountered
Bishop's work: we're talking Willie, Stanton and Eneg here. In a large part of their work, they were portraying the 'damsel in distress' type. One of the best examples of that is of course Sweet Gwendoline, from John Willie. And although I admired his art tremendously (still do), I wasn't fond of her submissiveness. And like I said, there were a lot of those characters around in the bondage art of those days.

With Eneg, it was a little different: his girls were not necessarily submissive, but more like resigned (most of the time they were tied so tight that there was no choice for them anyway), which I liked a little better. And granted: Stanton didn't work with a lot with purely submissive girls either, but in his case they were more like clear victims.

Now I wanted to see something a bit different. What I did was the following: I copied the dominas from these artists work as best as I could, and put them in bondage.


A combination that had to result, of course, into resistance, and that was what fascinated me so much. This idea of a dominatrix in bondage combined a few aspects which have always played a role in my work since. First of all, due to their defiance: the struggling.

I've always thought that the effectiveness of the bondage was demonstrated better when the subject was fighting back, than in rest. Then, what I would like to call the inaptness of the situation or the inappropriateness; these women should not be tied up: it is totally uncharacteristic for them, and that makes it all the more exciting. In later years, I started to use that same theme for the Juvenile Domination series, and the Mature Bondage one. And in the bound bodybuilders art, of course. Closely related to this is a third aspect: humiliation.

Humiliation and embarrassment have always played a large role in my work (more than pain and suffering).
Now, I like to think that all these aspects are highlighted in this new series which we called: Rage! All about women who are definitely not happy with their degradation, fighting loosing battles, in powerless, inconsequentional rage, humiliated and embarrassed by their demeaning helplessness!

Coco

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