Odalisques

PhotoStudio, about ten hours.
March 2008.

The French term odalisque derives from the Turkish-Ottoman word odalik, a female slave owned by a Muslim male as his legal concubine. The odalisque became a favorite theme of European artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a symbol, in the European view, of Muslim sensuality.

Submitted to Piroro's Asian costume contest: [link]
Background story: Remember King Shahryar? That's Scheherazade's King, the one who liked stories. So much did he like the stories his wife was telling him that he didn't care much for the invitation Sultan Piroro had send him. "A bondage party? Again?" And as he had no intention of binding and gagging his wife, and deprive himself of her stories, he sent two of his harem slaves instead.


Five photo references for the bodypositions, the ties and the background.

There are several things I am not happy with, like the face and the hands (too big!) of the girl on the left.