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Lindsay Ess : Becoming Whole

From: Charles McGuigan
Length: 50:17

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Lindsay Ess was at the top of her form, doing what she knew how to do best. Fashion was her passion. She breathed it; she lived it. Modeling. Photo shoots. Directing fashion shows. You name it, she did it. But something would change that, almost overnight. Something so radical that Lindsay would hover at death’s door and later emerge from the chrysalis of induced coma with part of her forever changed. Then extreme physical loss would follow, but out of it all she would gain rare insight into her own humanity and begin long conversations with the unknowable other. For Lindsay Ess (That’s her real last name, E-S-S) it all started with dolls Read the full description.

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Lindsay Ess is beautiful. Her skin is pale and void of a single freckle. She has mooning eyes, a fine, thin nose, crafted cheek bones, lips like rose petals. Her body is an hourglass women would die to possess; men would fight for to just hold, even once. Lindsay Ess posed for photographs, modeled and has a natural gift for matching colors, creating outfits. She’s a fashion designer just turned twenty-six. And this: Lindsay Ess has no arms or legs. They were cut away from her two years ago after a botched surgery.

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Piece Description

 

Lindsay Ess is beautiful. Her skin is pale and void of a single freckle. She has mooning eyes, a fine, thin nose, crafted cheek bones, lips like rose petals. Her body is an hourglass women would die to possess; men would fight for to just hold, even once. Lindsay Ess posed for photographs, modeled and has a natural gift for matching colors, creating outfits. She’s a fashion designer just turned twenty-six. And this: Lindsay Ess has no arms or legs. They were cut away from her two years ago after a botched surgery.

Timing and Cues

music break 25:42-26:02

Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
Original music Charles Arthur 00:00