A couple of weeks ago Greg asked me if I’d take on the task of administering a new Utata project in which people have to create photos that fit a predetermined title. Here’s my contribution to the first installment of Picture This, whose title comes from the following marvelous Sor Juana poem:

Sonnet 23:

Semblance of my elusive love, hold still—
image of a bewitchment fondly cherished,
lovely fiction that robs my heart of joy,
fair mirage that makes it joy to perish.
Since already my breast, like willing iron,
yields to the powerful magnet of your charms,
why must you so flatteringly allure me,
then slip away and cheat my eager arms?
Even so, you shan’t boast, self-satisfied,
that your tyranny has triumphed over me,
evade as you will arms opening wide,
all but encircling your phantasmal form:
in vain shall you elude my fruitless clasp,
for fantasy holds you captive in its grasp.

We haven’t published the project yet, so it doesn’t have a proper page on the site — but all the contributions so far can be found by following this link. Here are some of my favorites.

From Mary Jane 2040:

From DeadEyeBart:

From Orrin: