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Adit Priscilla in ‘In Bloom’ for Harper’s Bazaar, March 2022 Photographed by Pieter Hugo

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If you persevere, in time you will have an entirely different problem – not that life is meaningless, but rather that life has almost too much meaning. As the scales fall from your eyes the world rushes into focus, presenting itself with a kind of vibrational eloquence that can, at first, be almost overwhelming. Everything shimmers, everything clarifies, everything wrestles for your attention. Trees feel super-real, their roots plunged into the earth, their branches stretching to the sky, birds are flesh and blood souls, fragile with life, the sky unfolds and rolls, the ocean crashes, people fascinate, books are beautiful, children are whirling dynamos of chaos, dogs bark and cats meow, flowers shout, your neighbour glows, and God runs like a helix through all things. The world awaits you, humming with meaning. You are alive with potential. You are not dead.

— Nick Cave on getting clean, Red Hand Files #258

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alexander mcqueen rtw autumn 2oo8 .

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Time lapse of the Moon and Venus behind Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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LISA BONET

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saint alia of the knife - regent of the atreides empire

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Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse

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Kwame Boateng, "Sinnerman"

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Valencia, October 2019.

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shaun leane sterling silver sculpture ''rose corset’s'' for givenchy by alexander mcqueen, 2000.

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“Every movie has a doppelgänger … All characters are battling their own personalities. There’s always a shadow, a point of comparison, that other person who is not like us, and who defines us just by their difference. But those characters are us as well, and we can look at our identification with one character or the other as a struggle to define ourselves, to define what we want to be like and what we don’t want to be like. How we relate to other people is all a series of fabrications; who we are is mutable depending on what we are compared to, or in many cases, what we compare ourselves to.”

— Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

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Past experience has taught her to deny her womanhood, to despise it, because she feels ‘less than’. Her repression isn’t just a fear of actualizing sexual desires, it’s a fear of rejection - so she rejects herself before anyone else can do it for her. -Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women

The Piano Teacher (2001) dir. Michael Haneke

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Vivienne Westwood A/W 1990 'Portrait Collection' Silk Tie

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Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song

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