Belle as Belle Rosamonde

Artists are compelled to finish what they started. Despite the tragic obstacles that arose after our meeting at the Wandering Goat, I can not, and will not let anything, or anyone, get in the way of my rendering of Belle Burch, as Fair Rosamond. For fifteen years I have wondered how I would render Rosamond. When Belle first made eye-contact with me with my camera in my face, there it is! The shot! The Pose! This is Belle Rosamonde noticing King Henry for the first time at her father’s castle. This is the beginning of the most celebrated love affair of all time, because it is doomed from the start. This look puts the Rose of the World on a collision course with the Queen of the Plantegnent line, Eleanore of Aquitaine. This is the height of ‘Forbidden Love’. Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

The first thing…