I haven’t had an opportunity to critique a set by the gifted and prolific artist Rylsky for far too long. He’s got his own domain in the Metart Network, of course rylskyart.com and that’s where the bulk of his new work now appears. But the Metart archives contain no fewer than 1,330 photo sets by Rylsky, dating back nearly a decade, and he continues to contribute new work to Metart, of which Presenting Una Piccola is one impressive recent example.
Rylsky isn’t simply a gifted artist and technician, he’s also something of a model whisperer with a practiced ability to coax layers of emotion and expression out of his subjects. And, on top of that, he’s also gifted with an eye for new talent numerous Top Models have been discovered and first photographed by Rylsky over the course of his lengthy career. Una Piccola is Rylsky’s latest discovery, and she is a delight.
Una Piccola swings from sweetly innocent to searingly sexual with ease. She’s completely comfortable in the most explicit poses (of which there are many), and every image whether she’s pensive or passionate is brimming with charming aspects of her alluring and inviting personality. Her natural, unshaven, state will elicit the usual range of reactions, but nobody can argue that this girl is a scrumptious physical confection from head to toe, and everywhere in between.
So, a gorgeous new model, with an engaging personality and a mouthwatering little body, photographed by a seasoned and gifted erotic artist. If that was all Presenting Una Piccola had to offer it would be enough. It would be great, in fact. But there’s something more to this set, something unique and wonderful. As I selected favourites from the batch of 120 images I started to notice patterns, clusters of shots that formed sequences and suggested flowing, natural movement. This wasn’t simply a model hitting her marks as the photographer called out poses, theres a fluidity, an almost filmic quality to numerous groups of images here. Take the sequence beginning with #007 and ending with #011. She’s on her back on a bed, shot from above, her legs are parted, she touches her right breasts, then she squeezes both, then she pinches and pulls on her plump nipples while subtly lifting her butt off the bed. In a flip book or zoetrope the images would flow together logically and seamlessly. And this magical sense of movement is prevalent throughout the set.
Of course there are numerous individual images in the series that impress and intrigue. #106 (eyes open) and #107 (eyes closed) are two similar variations on a cleverly posed headshot. The spontaneous and genuine autoerotic joy captured in #048. The dreamy and steamy explicit invitation of #022. And the playful, candid, cuteness of Una Piccola’s lips pursed in a kiss with her hands reaching toward the camera ends “Presenting on a perfectly playful note. Simply put: a wonderful new model wonderfully shot by an inventive master photographer.
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