“Never had much faith in love or miracles,Never wanna put my heart on the line.
But swimming in your love is something spiritual,
I’m born again every time you spend the night.
‘Cause your sex takes me to paradise,
Takes me to paradise
And it shows, it shows.
‘Cause you make me feel like
I’ve been locked out of heaven
For too long, for too long.
You bring me to my knees, you make me testify,
You can make a sinner change his ways.
Open up your gate, ‘cause I can’t wait to see the light
And right here is where I wanna stay.
‘Cause your sex takes me to paradise,
Takes me to paradise
And it shows, it shows.
‘Cause you make me feel like
I’ve been locked out of heaven
For too long, for too long.
You make me feel like
I’ve been locked out of heaven
For too long, for too long.”
[ Locked Out Of Heaven – Hurts ]
You know those moments when you’re going for something, but can’t quite reach it, but then you realise you’ve actually got something else entirely?
Well, that’s this photo. I was trying to pull off another work for the Inspiration Hurts project, but didn’t really capture what I wanted, until I realised this photo embodied pretty well Hurts’s cover of Bruno Mars’ cheese. How these guys could turn it into a compelling (albeit still highly melodramatic) song is anybody’s guess, but it felt wrong to cut it out of the project and I’m glad its visual rendition kind of fell onto my lap.
Of course, the everyday-life-meet-fashion-photography feel was more of a leftover from the concept I was originally working with, but it still fits the general mood of the song. Besides, I couldn’t go too holy and sacred with the visuals because in this project alone we already have Miracle and Heaven, and I need to differentiate. Look, it’s nice but it’s still a Bruno Mars cover, it can’t get all the good stuff.
Anyway, I think the contrast between highlights and shadows is what sells it: the head is facing backwards, to the darkness, while the rest of the body is already facing forward to the light. meaning that the exile from heaven isn’s quite over yet, but is’s about to be. I’m rolling with it.
Well, that’s this photo. I was trying to pull off another work for the Inspiration Hurts project, but didn’t really capture what I wanted, until I realised this photo embodied pretty well Hurts’s cover of Bruno Mars’ cheese. How these guys could turn it into a compelling (albeit still highly melodramatic) song is anybody’s guess, but it felt wrong to cut it out of the project and I’m glad its visual rendition kind of fell onto my lap.
Of course, the everyday-life-meet-fashion-photography feel was more of a leftover from the concept I was originally working with, but it still fits the general mood of the song. Besides, I couldn’t go too holy and sacred with the visuals because in this project alone we already have Miracle and Heaven, and I need to differentiate. Look, it’s nice but it’s still a Bruno Mars cover, it can’t get all the good stuff.
Anyway, I think the contrast between highlights and shadows is what sells it: the head is facing backwards, to the darkness, while the rest of the body is already facing forward to the light. meaning that the exile from heaven isn’s quite over yet, but is’s about to be. I’m rolling with it.
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