Etheral Empress -

Inspired by the Bridal painting of the Empress Elisabeth of the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire - Elegance, strength as elegance, elegance of spirit personified as if this extraordinary elegance was born to be, beyond the devestation of mortals, so far outside the boundries of the base & banal ravishings prevelant within peoples' passions and purposes, escaping expectations of equality, graciousness was alive within her like a landscape loved & leavened by a monogamous moonlight, ebony overcome by the invigoration of ivory, realising that genuine grace is a monument of courage confronting chaos, crystallised composure, she being a template and temple for hopefuls, in all my experience I have witnessed no woman more ready for power, more savoring for sacrafice, more able to abate avarice & acrimony, Elisabeth, the emerald of an Empire, Mother to minions, mistress of the misery & magnificence of the multitudes, Master of the stout & savant, such precocious puissance of personality, regal resilience, my imagination renders eagles delivering sustenance to her, bees bringing heavenscent - J.A.B.