Embrace
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| Fan Art | |
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| Title: | Embrace |
| Artist: | Shelley Butler |
| Date(s): | 1996 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
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Embrace is an illo by Shelley Butler.
It was printed in First Time #44. It was used for the story, The Doctor's Indiscretion
The illo shows Kirk and Spock sitting nude, holding each other, faces obscured.
Fan Comments
What a marvelous moment. This is one of those drawings so evocative, many stories it might tell, probably a different interpretation by each who looks at it. This is the drawing Carolyn S. has had for a while in her closet Kirk and Spock sitting naked front-to-front, arms and legs wrapped around each other. Perhaps this is during the very first moments they are physically together (unless you subscribe to the madly-devouring-each-other-immediately school)... very still, simply feeling the magic of just being together. Such quiet power. Spock's face in Kirk's neck; maybe even Kirk is looking down at their cocks touching. Or perhaps some kind of tantric thing is going on. Beautiful." [1]
The original of this drawing has been one of my most prized possessions for two years now. It was the first piece of original art I ever purchased, the first piece to come out of the closet (both literally and figuratively) and be hung when I turned my married daughter’s bedroom into my writing room. It now hangs directly over my computer where I can see it every day and hopefully draw inspiration from it when I write. While the vulnerable bend of Spock’s neck no longer has the power to bring tears to my eyes as it did two years ago, it still can raise a lump to my throat, and I am constantly finding new aspects to appreciate: the play of light and shadow on Kirk’s forearm, the intricacy of raised tendons in Kirk’s hand on Spock’s back, way their faces curve into each other’s necks, the way their bodies entwine and fit together. For me this drawing embodies all the loving feelings that I read K/S for. It touches something in me deep down where my soul lives.[2]