Text in English & German. About Stefan Gesell: "With a background and training in illustration and graffiti art, I think it would be fair to say that Stefan considers himself more as an illustrator than a photographer, although he obviously can make really stunning photographs. He creates his photographs digitally and then manipulates them to taste, composing other elements into them as needed to achieve the look hes after. Stefans work is flat-out sexy, hard-edged, high tech and very contemporary. Much of his work has a sci-fi flavour to it. I was immediately drawn to Stefans use of colour and his composition. The colour is sumptuously rich -- Rembrandt colour. The design and composition -- immaculate. Meticulous visual design.

Text in English, German & French. In the garden of Heaven, there already was a snake. As for the little juicy fruit Eve gave to humanity, it probably was, already, the carefully shaven genitals, pulpy and plump, that the girls display in this book with a smile. They offer themselves to be seen, self-confident, without hiding anything of their slit genitalia, like a tempting fruit. When they spread their thighs, they may unveil the little hill of their vulva but their cheeky looks and postures are always playful. Here we are in the realm of pretense, a world of fantasy where Eves daughters become elusive fairies.

This body of work is a contemplation of human beings' passage on earth and their intimate interrelation with the environment. This book attempts to bring humour to the things we are getting attached to. It points at the invisible within the visible, the immaterial within the material or the vertical nature of being (and its mirror-like quality) within our horizontal way of living (where our mind, time, and space condition our experiences). The naked body is seen as our primary indivisible unit of perception which is usually pushed and pulled by our thinking mind's desire to either get less or more. In other words, our lives are coloured by our minds and since body-mind is a single entity, most of the colours painted on the body are an allusion to the range of our changing desires from being invisible or transparent to wanting to be singular and the centre of attention. The book's Interviews (the interviewers are from Russia, Colombia, Korea, Germany, and the US) stanzas, and photographs are not seen as being subservient to one another but can be seen as an assemblage of three independent directions that may or may not intersect following each reader.

Text in English, French & German. By removing their pubic hair, these young women seem to be wanting to stay forever young, suspended in a state of disquieting purity. This is the extraordinary effect these naked pictures have on us: they are showing us "indecency" as a supreme form of innocence. They convert the brazenness into an ideal of ingenuousness and turn sexy models into icons of chastity.

Text in English, French & German. How beautiful are these pilose vulvas that are natural and hairy and not shaven bald. I feel happy whenever I see something beautiful. Many past cultures worshipped vulvas. And its no small wonder that today, vulvas have started again to unfold their magical charms, at least within the world of fine art. So it is that Paramonov's angels appear unashamed of their hairiness, act rather proud of their unshaven, natural beauty.