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Jean Paul Gaultier anatomical bustier

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Mario Giacomelli, Spoon River

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Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse

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Georges-Daniel de Monfreid, Mater Dolorosa, 1897

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Tim Walker for Casa Vogue (2006)

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The Solar Anus by Georges Bataille.

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“Your vulnerability inspires sadism.”

— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin featured in A Literate Passion: Letters Of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller (1932 - 1953)

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“All words are lies. But pain doesn’t lie.”

Audition (1999) dir. Takashi Miike

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Girls Applying For A Model Casting In Lithuania, 1992

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The real root of alchemy is to be sought less in philosophical doctrines than in the projections of individual investigators. I mean by this that while working on his chemical experiments the operator had certain psychic experiences which appeared to him as the particular behavior of the chemical process. Since it was a question of projection, he was naturally unconscious of the fact that the experience had nothing to do with matter itself . . . He experienced his projection as a property of matter; but what he was in reality experiencing was his own unconscious. In this way he recapitulated the whole history of man’s knowledge of nature. As we all know, science began with the stars, and mankind discovered in them the dominants of the unconscious, the “gods,” as well as the curious psychological qualities of the zodiac: a complete projected theory of human character. Astrology is a primordial experience similar to alchemy. Such projections repeat themselves whenever man tries to explore an empty darkness and involuntarily fills it with living form.

Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy