Bound (Star Trek art)
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| Fan Art | |
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| Title: | Bound |
| Artist: | Shelley Butler |
| Date(s): | 1998 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
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Bound (also referred to as "Spock in Ropes") is an illo by Shelley Butler.
It portrays Spock.
It was printed in First Time #48.
A Sister Illustration
Butler created another illustration featuring Kirk. It was printed in the 2023 KiScon con zine and is titled Kirk With Rope.
Author's Comments
Spock with heavy rope draped around him (tastefully, but not tastefully enough for the mantelpiece.) [1]
Fan Comments
"Page 160B is a Shelley Butler Spock in ropes. Very nice. I only wish there was a matching Butler Kirk somewhere. And I would be terribly miffed if I paid full price for this zine and this art wasn’t in it. [2]
Ah, Shelley. I don‘t know what you had in mind for Spock in this picture (maybe I need to read the story it accompanies). But for now I‘ll just sigh over the masculine beauty of that lean body wrapped only in oversized ropes – something that reminds me (a landlubber) of something you‘d see on a ship. They‘re casually draped, so he‘s free to remove them, but instead his hand lingers over the twisted fibers that cross over his groin. What a nice hand – the veins are showing just enough to be realistic. Of course, that‘s what I like so much about Shelley‘s work – it is almost more realistic than reality if that‘s possible. That‘s because in reality the eye fails to see all the details that somehow stand out more clearly in her drawings. Spock looks a bit troubled here – his brow is wrinkled and one side of his face is in shadow. Or perhaps it‘s sunburned from standing on the deck of Kirk‘s sailboat. Lots of things are possible, but only Shelley knows the truth. [3]
References
- ^ from several issues of The K/S Press
- ^ from The K/S Press #28
- ^ The K/S Press #140