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Charles François Jalabert (French, 1818-1901) Galatée

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Maurice Sapiro aka Maurice L. Sapiro (American, b. 1932, NJ, USA) - Pink Swamp Orchids, 2015, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

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𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟾, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

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Shauna Finn

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Richard Siken, excerpts from “Hansel” in Brothers & Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales

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[ID: series of annotated screenshots.

image 1 text: “Why make a map? Why do anything at all? Now how, because hows are easy, series or sequence, one foot after another, but existentially why bother, what does it solve? Well, if you don’t need to, don’t. Wouldn’t that be great? Just don’t make anything. The world is full of things already, the world is vast and wide and full of grace, and you will always be given the benefit of the doubt. Except that isn’t true now, is it? Fact is, the world is full of things trying to kill you. We do not walk through a passive landscape.”

image 2 text: “Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Here is a story where everything goes wrong, here is a story where everyone has their back against the wall, here is a story where everyone is in pain and acting selfishly because if they don’t, they’ll die. Here is a story, not of good and evil, but of need against need against need, where everyone is at cross-purposes and everyone is to blame. How are you supposed to fall asleep to this?”

image 3 text: “Fairytales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break. And there are other rules, like: anything can happen. As well as: you will not get exactly what you want.“

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