light and shadow

FKA Frenchtwist The peculiar, the beautiful, the erotic (+snakes) “I am the organizer of the uncertain, the trembling, the half-light, the dreamlike.” Alfred Kubin

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Gio Colucci, c. 1920s

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Clarence John Laughlin (1905–1985)

“The Rising Tide of Darkness,” 1941

source

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I give epitaphs, not autographs. —Vampira

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Petit Sphinx Gardien, Leonor Fini, 1943-44

Oil on canvas

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Lost Souls, Gordiart

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Cover art for RE/Search edition of Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden, 1989

Photo by Bobby Neel Adams

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Untitled from Lately I Find a Sliver of Mirror Is Simply to Slice an Eyelid exhibition, Francesca Woodman, 1976

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Hace mucho tiempo que no soy yo, Carmen Calvo, 2003

Collage/Photo

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Gordon Parks

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Christian Orellana

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Hjertet (The Heart), Edvard Munch, 1898-99

Woodcut in black, green, and red on Japan paper

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Dancer Gertrud Frith in Medea (by ADiamondFellFromTheSky)

Rolf Winquist 1957

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Dan Hillier, Ground (2020)

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Le procès abrégé (A Night With The Bishop), Apollonia Saintclair, 2026

Pen and ink

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The Final Orgasm, illustration for the RE/Search edition of Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden, 1989

Photo by Bobby Neel Adams