I have no idea what to expect for this evening.
My fiance, Jessy, is a conceptual artist, and she has a happening going on for tonight.
I love her, we live together, and I plan to make her the woman of my life. But there is something that I have yet to talk about with her. Some deep thoughts, deep desires, that I have never shared with her.
I mean, sex is good, more than good, and she is thought provoking and smart, and whenever I get in a conversation with her, it is enriching and satisfying. Her performances are full of meaning, she talks about estrangement, guilt, pleasure.
Still, I have yet to talk to her about my fascination with bondage. I've been raised by a very religious family and when I came of age, I met the internet.
There is a literal cornucopia of sources and video and sites, as you might imagine.
But I had not the nerve to act on my impulses, not even with Jessy. Yet, some performances gave me a hint she was onto something in that regard. For instance, like the time that she was in an art gallery and she made her visitors strap her in a straitjacket, in black leather, and then she proceeded to explain all the paintings as if "even tied she could free them".
She told me that the restraining sense she got from the jacket was something that gave her a buzz, a pleasure that she had not anticipated. And this bring me to tonight's event.
This particular performance is set in a sort of art gallery in a different part of the city. She asked me to take her from the makeup artist that she had enrolled in the preparation for tonight directly to the venue. Before this particular event, I have been cut out from all preparations and rehearsals, so I have no idea what to expect.
Usually Jessy is very tense before her things and she needs silence and calm.
As I stop the car in front of the place, she strolls out along with one of her assistants opening the door for her to let her in.
She is wearing a cloak, sporting a big pair of sunglasses that covers most of her face.
"Hi." I could feel that she is already in her space. So I lean towards her to hug her.
She is startled as I approach and interrupts me.
"Let's go, would you?"
We are driving in silence towards the club where she would be performing.
One of her girls, her assistants, is already there waiting for her. Before exiting the car she comes near me and gives me a kiss, and finally she slips a chain over my head.
I am startled and I do not immediately realize that there is a key on the chain. So surprised that I couldn't even muster to say "Good luck" and she is already gone.
Lucky for me, they had reserved a spot for the car, so I can enter the venue without much of a problem, in time to catch the start of the performance.
There are a lot of people in the main room. This place is indeed an art exhibition, with paintings on the wall and statues around the rooms.
I have never been there before and, as I look around the works on display, I realize that there is a peculiar theme running through them. They are, for the most, about fetish and bondage, and this is awakening some interest in me.
It is the first time I have left my vanilla cocoon, and I am not sure how to approach it. I decide to go with the flow and then I spot in a corner of the gallery something I had only ever seen on the Internet.
Above me there is, suspended from the ceiling by chains, a f-suit that I had seen on a website years before. It is shaped like a person was trapped in there, with arms and legs folded in leather pockets, unable to see and unable to speak.
In another room, there is a statue of a woman completely wrapped in rope, so detailed and so life-like that it is difficult to believe that it is indeed a sculpted object and not a real person.
Among other things, there are several illustrations of various damsels in distress, works of art, and pictures.
When I finally reach the rear room, I see that there is a sort of little stage, arranged in the middle and a big machine on the side. Both of them are still covered by drapes, and there are no seats around, leaving the audience standing on their feet, free to wander about, surrounding the stage.
I look around and I am not able to spot Jessy. My curiosity is definitely piqued, and then I can sense a little buzz of excitement growing in me.
Then a man appears onto the little stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I present you Jessy."
One of her assistants is helping her to get on the stage. She is still dressed as I met her in the car, sporting her sunglasses even if she is inside a room.
"At the gallery, we need a new statue, and she is going to pose for it, right here, in front of you all. We are going to scan her in every single detail and then she will become another 3d printed statue to grace our exhibition. The detailed scanning is a process that will take at least three hours, and she has decided to do it here, right here, in front of you all."
She simply nods, while the man continues to talk.
"I know that she has chosen position and title, and, so, the statue is going to be called Caged Freedom"
With those words, the man lifts one of the drapes, and shows a cage. My heart sinks as I recognise some sort of Pritchard's Cage. It had been a staple in the videos of House of Gord that I perused on the web.
How could she know?
I don't know if you know, but it is a cage were the subject is locked into a kneeling position, and is kept there folded with access to all the body parts.
This seems to be a little bit more elaborate than the one I saw on video.
I am literally drinking the thing with my eyes as the man finally gives the stage to Jessy and steps down among the people in the audience.
The assistants help my girlfriend to get at the center of the stage. With one hand she loosens the cloak covering her. In the light of the room, I could see that she is completely naked underneath. She had also shaved her pussy.
Then she gives her sunglasses to an assistant and this is really bothering me. She has no eyes. So that was the reason she was being helped around, they had put a prosthetic over her eyes and then blended it with her complexion so that it seems that she does not have them.
Finally she places her finger under the hairline and pulls off a wig, remaining with a bald head.