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“I Walk Upon the Crown of Your Hands”
This collage is a visual homage to the intimate and creative relationship between Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais. Their bond — romantic, artistic, spiritual — unfolded in a time when queer love had to exist in the margins, and yet their connection radiated openly through poetry, film, and drawing. One of the many letters Cocteau wrote to Marais inspired this work:
“Moi je marche sur la couronne de tes mains” – I walk upon the crown of your hands.”
Hands fascinated Cocteau. In his universe, they are not merely body parts but symbols of creation, love, suffering, and the supernatural.
From the hand that reaches through the mirror in Orphée to the drawn mouth that appears on a hand in Le Sang d’un Poète, Cocteau’s hands are portals between worlds — poetic, erotic, and surreal.
This piece was created using prints on Japanese kozo and bamboo paper. It combines modernist abstraction with tender fragments: a photographed hand, a painted gesture made by Cocteau, and a subtle detail of his handwritten name. Like Cocteau’s own work, the image floats between personal memory and myth, love and art, body and symbol.
“Hands are the antennae of the soul,” Cocteau once said.
In this piece, they become a quiet, tactile expression of queer love — fragile yet enduring.
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