About DOMAI
By Claudia Moscovici

A commonplace saying tells us that there's a fine line between sensuality and sexuality. We also believe that there's a difference between pornography and art. In fact, these two distinctions often blend into one another. For we tend to regard art as sensual and pornography as sexual. Warding off the charge of pornography, photography, sculpture and painting often veil the human body, especially the more eroticized female nude, by representing it in aesthetic poses and allegorical situations which evoke thoughts, emotions, and dreams, not only carnal desires.

If the boundary between pornography and art is so hotly debated, however, it's partly because it's drawn by our subjective reactions. Who is to say that an aesthetic pose elevates the mind and not just the senses? DOMAI photography confronts this problem not by transforming the nude into a work of art, but by illustrating so palpably the distinction between sensuality and sexuality. DOMAI's nudes are undeniably sensual. Emotion, thought, and sensation can hardly be separated when we gaze at these pictures.

DOMAI's nudes are also undeniably beautiful. But not by being artistic or aesthetic. For DOMAI photography does not envelop the nudes in any story; it does not contort the female body in positions that emphasize the fluidity of its shape, its roundness, its symmetry, its curves. We're faced only with beautiful, simple images.

The postromantic love poems I join to these images evoke in words the feminine beauty, emotions and desires that are celebrated by sensual photography and art.

Claudia Moscovici