Facity Trials

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Marzia

New light VIII

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Confesiones

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how venus/aphrodite lost her arms (against the hubris of allopathic physicians)

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Of course a "peasant" recovered her from burial amongst the ruins—isnt that always the way. Long forgotten now . . . and surely blamed for his part in the loss of her arms.



But no. The goddess did not give up her limbs to the charitable act of being saved. Isnt it always the pillage rape and mounting to which we object. Mm hmm.



Well thats my version of the history. I feel a kinship with the statue. Why not. Above my version in photography unedited: shadows and light take my limbs.



This is a metaphor (my gay Jewish drag queen shaman is convinced somehow I have lost conversation with my symbols hrmph) for the reduction of self particularly via the odious channels of allopathic medicine. Praise to all of you who find comfort there. My life therein has been squandered. That is truth.



So this mediocre mind amongst what are ostensibly the greatest minds in the world says to me that I must allow him to be the physician.



I did not enter the room encased in leather. He did not pay for that treat. How the fuck I came to have the power to end his medical career I do not know. Why he was telling me he needed my permission to begin again I have no idea.



The man refused me treatment until or unless I was willing to convince him I would be completely different in my approach to healing and would grant him the opportunity to Be the Doctor.



Um.



Time to Go.



This I am certain is how Venus/Aphrodite lost her limbs: she just couldnt deal with the constant yammering of men as to the expectations of minor goddesses. She was only after all a statue.



Mm hmm.









self-portrait natural light.

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Model: Sylvia from TopModels

Make-up Rikke Monjor

Hair: Peter Vonkunz Brun

Photography: Christina Børding

Fashionista

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fui solo como un túnel

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grande . large



. . .



Fui solo como un túnel. De mí huían los pájaros

y en mí la noche entraba su invasión poderosa.

Para sobrevivirme te forjé como un arma

como una flecha en mi arco como una piedra en mi honda.



Pero cae la hora de la venganza y te amo.

Cuerpo de piel de musgo de leche ávida y firme.

Ah los vasos del pecho! Ah los ojos de ausencia!

Ah las rosas del pubis! Ah tu voz lenta y triste!



Cuerpo de mujer mía persistiré en tu gracia.

Mi sed mi ansia sin límite mi camino indeciso!

Oscuros cauces donde la sed eterna sigue

y la fatiga sigue y el dolor infinito.





neruda





ilysse enero 2010

Ma quando ti viene quella voglia pazzesca di piangere...

tattuzzi [le soleil brille] has added a photo to the pool:

...che proprio ti strizza tutto che non la riesci a fermare allora non cè verso di spiccicare una sola parola non esce più niente ti torna tutto indietro tutto dentro ingoiato da quei dannati singhiozzi naufragato nel silenzio di quelle stupide lacrime. Maledizione. Con tutto quello che uno vorrebbe dire... e invece niente non esce fuori niente. Si può essere fatti peggio di così?

You sparkle in my head

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SELF

me-ba-me

¿Que????

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Portrait

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sweet Coffee Break

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how we blossom and we cease

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grande . large



ilysse. january 2010.



for ilysse who shines and for cease who sees that in her as i do *s







In unending storms

We search for space to breathe

How our hearts are worn

Weve come so far

In this desert

How we blossom and we cease

Tell your story now

We have so much to know



Shine with all the untold

Hold the light given unto you

Find the love to unfold

In this broken world we choose





Vienna Teng

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Black-Eyed Lives

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after alfred eisenstaedts "black-eyed veil: lilly daché hat and veil" (1937)











schoolchildren around the u.s. today are paying money to wear hats in classes in an effort to provide aid to earthquake survivors in haiti.



i was grumbling a bit about that in my generic did howard zinn live and die for nothing? kind of way but erin did a really lovely and inspiring photo for the flickr group hats for haiti and . . . well erin herself is lovely and inspiring. i thought to look at the compassionate element of the process rather than the cynical (though remembering the life of howard zinn also ranks as compassionate in my worlds).



millinery is one of my secret loves. as im more of a conceptual artist than a photographer—and because i truly detest self-portraiture—i had to conceive of why i would do a shoot about . . . hats and haiti. that took half the night. literally.



one of the notions to which i continually returned was this bombardment of media attention related to "saving" the survivors in haiti. (yes this is the part where i come full circle mm hmm.) does anyone else recall condi rice stepping up after the tsunami hit the indian ocean just about exactly five years ago welcoming that "diplomatic opportunity" for the u.s. then forwarding her notion of "transformational diplomacy"? oh. mm hmm.



now theres talk of "manifest destiny" spreading its hegemonic buttah over the carribe . . . cuz we all know them haitians would be better off with a lil imperialism. um. condi and crew done started that route back in the old administration with the New Embassy Compound in Port au Prince riiight?



so i revamped the style of one of the worlds leading milliners lilly daché who created headwear for royalty and hollywood stars. this is a bit of an inversion of her "black-eyed veil" piece for which an unnamed model was photographed by alfred eisenstaedt in 1937. ms. dachés veil is fabulously intricate as you can see here.



mine is a bit of net with a white appliqué flower from my five-year-olds bedroom wall. the "hat" is a long scarf bundled and molded in the shape of a Che beret. daché put a rather feminine trim on her veil; i left mine unadorned to represent the "hurricane fences" along the u.s.-mexico borderlands.



heres to you haiti: this is my first flag of the series. long may you stand as so many of us do: undivided no matter the fragmentations.



and heres to you beloved mr. zinn. you are already missed.





self-portrait with hat and veil made from found objects. 30 january 2010.

Run out of time

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what remains is future

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18x24 Ilford MGIV print handmade in my kitchen

carillon

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