{"id":23638,"date":"2022-06-14T01:07:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T23:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=23638"},"modified":"2023-06-03T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T09:46:10","slug":"pride-art-the-songs-of-bilitis-by-dganit-deier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/pride-art-the-songs-of-bilitis-by-dganit-deier\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride Art: “The Songs of Bilitis”, Sapphic Love Poems Illustrated by Dganit Greier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMnasidika’s Breasts, *Hommage to Mapplethorp. Acrylic and gold leaf, 14″X14″ (35.56cm X 35.56cm). Copyright Dganit Greier.<\/em><\/p>\n

Carefully, with one hand she opened her tunic and offered me her warm and sweet breasts, just like a pair of live doves are offered to the Goddess.\/ “Love them well”, she said to me; “I love them so much! They are cherised, the little children. I busy myself with them when I am alone. I play with them; I give them pleasure”.\/ “I soak them in milk. I powder them with flowers. My soft hair which wipes them is precious to their little nipples. I caress them shivering. I soothe them in wool”.\/ “Since I shall never have children, be their nursing, my love, and, since they are so far from my mouth, kiss them for me”.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Songs of Bilitis<\/h2>\n

The series of illustrations were done between 2019-2021. Dganit Greier<\/a> explains, for two and a half years I illustrated the poetry “Songs of Bilitis” by the French author Pierre Louys (1870-1925). The second chapter of the book is about Bilitis’ lesbian love. Happy, beautiful and painful.<\/p>\n

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\nCracy Embrace. Acrylic and gold leaf, 14″X14″ (35.56cm X 35.56cm). Copyright Dganit Greier.<\/em><\/p>\n

Love me, not with smiles, flutes nor plaited flowers, but with you heart and your tears, as I love you with my breasts and my groans.\/ When your breasts match between my breasts, when I feel your life touching my life, when your knees rise up behind me, then my breathless mouth does not even know how to unit with yours.\/ Embrace me as I embreace you! Look, the lamp had died out, we toss in the night; but I press your moving body and I hear your constant moans…\/ Moan! Moan! Moan! Oh woman! Eros drags us into agony. You will suffer less in this bed bringing a child into the world than giving birth to your love.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nDesire. Acrylic and gold leaf, 14″X14″ (35.56cm X 35.56cm). Copyright Dganit Greier.<\/em><\/p>\n

She entered, and passionately, the eyes half closed, she united her lips with mine and our tongues knew each other… Never in my life there was a kiss like this one.\/ She was standing against me, all amorous and consenting. One of my knees, little by little, rose between her hot thighs which conceded as though for a lover.\/ My shuffling hands over her tunic sought to sense the secret body, which alternateting bended swaying, or arched stiffened with shivering of the skin.\/ With her delirious eyes, she indicated the bed; but we had no right to love before the wedding ceremonies, and we abruptly separated.<\/em><\/p>\n

About the Artist<\/h2>\n

Dganit Greier<\/a>, born in Israel, in the early ’50’s, I discovered erotic female poetry when I was 18. Under the blanket readings, under the blanket existence. So many question marks and no courage to ask nor to explore. I am so grateful to our place in the Feminine history today. I can finally express the beauty of female love without hesitations, with joy and candor. I currently live in Venice, Florida, active at the FAB (Fabulous Arts Foundation – LGBTQ plus Arts) in Sarasota. The collection of 28 illustrations to “Les Chanson de Bilitis” by Pierre Louys (1894) was created with joy and pain during two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three illustrations: Mnasidika’s Breasts, Crazy Embrace and Desire by Dganit Greier (US). The 19th-century sapphic love poems, “Les Chanson de Bilitis” by Pierre Louys accompany the illustrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,1449,1481],"tags":[1455],"class_list":["post-23638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-pride-art-gallery-2022","category-southeastern-united-states","tag-dganit-greier"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}