The Muse in New York — Clarina Bezzola

New York

Femme Fatale

She has gigantic breasts with voracious teeth ready to grab and devour anything in sight!
Photo still of performance video: C-print, duraflex, 11.1 x 19.7″
Photography: Thomas Wirthensohn, 2011

Video of the Performance on Times Square, New York, 2011

The utterly dangerous man-eating diva in Times Square, New York. She is so irresistible, any man who comes too close to her runs the danger of being seduced and finally even devoured alive. Her appetite is insatiable, but, oh, she is so beautiful and she sings so, so lovely!

Diva on Times Square

It’s the hand of desperation, a futile attempt to loosen the grip of time. She hopes, the deeper she digs her nails into the ground the slower the spread of the disease of aging!

Photo of performance: C-print, duraflex, 19.7 x 13.1″
Photography: David Byun, 2011

Diva and her Gigolos

Accompanied by charming men who light her the way.

Photo of performance: C-print, duraflex, 7.9 x 11.8″
Photography: David Byun, 2011

QUANDO M'EN VO SOLETTA PER LA VIA

While walking through the crowd she's singing Musetta's aria from Puchini's opera La Boheme:
Quando men vo soletta per la via,
When I walk all alone in the street

Photograohy: David Byun, 2011

Quando m'en vo soletta per la via

While walking through the crowd she's singing Musetta's aria from Puchini's opera La Boheme:
Quando men vo soletta per la via,
When I walk all alone in the street

Photograohy: David Byun, 2011

The beauty and the beast

E la bellezza mia tutta ricerca in me
And look for my whole beauty
Da capo a pie'...
From head to feet

Photography: David Byun, 2011

Ecstatic Diva

Ed assaporo allor la bramosia
And then I taste the slight yearning

Sott'il, che da gli occhi traspira
which transpires from their eyes

Photo of performance: C-print, duraflex, 11.8 x 7.9″
Photography David Byun, 2011

Slobbering Diva

E dai palesi vezzi intender sa
and which is able to perceive from manifest charms
Alle occulte beltà.
to most hidden beauties.

Photo of performance: C-print, duraflex, 7.9 x 11.8″
Photography David Byun, 2011

She's Voracious

Così l'effluvio del desìo
So the scent of desire is all around me,

Photo still of performance video: C-print, duraflex, 7.9 x 14″
Photography: Thomas Wirthensohn, 2011