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I Bet I Can Fit My Whole Body In Your Mouth

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"As in the past, she suspects the presence of God in the obscure part of the sky. She feels that she is forbidden from seeing him today. So she sinks deeper into the cushions and bends her head slightly backwards. From this new position, several centimetres lower, she is able to see an enormous hand up above, stretched out as if to protect the earth. The hand of God? Why doesn't he reveal his face to her? [...] She alters her posture once more in order to see what is above [...]. She discovers the small face of a very renowned and talented actor, a face that constantly changes. Is God a clown?"

"Notes on her last (?) crisis", Unica Zürn. Trans: Malcom Green.

[lisaaolivia]

‘HOME IS THE FIRST WOUND,’ mixed media

[planforsolitude]

Hans Breder Body/Sculptures, 1969-1973 

[diana-andraste]

Femme au squelette, Hans Bellmer, 1958-59

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Susi und Lena, Alice Springs, 1976

[diana-andraste]

TGIF

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Hans Bellmer

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[throbbinggristle]

when clearly intended to be having pleasure ... she was in fact ... having none ... not the slightest ... in which case of course ... that notion of punishment ... for some sin or other ... or for the lot ... or no particular reason ... for its own sake ... thing she understood perfectly ... that notion of punishment ... which had first occurred to her ... brought up as she had been to believe ... with other waifs ... in a merciful ... (brief laugh) ... God ... […] very foolish really but so like her ... in a way ... that she might do well to ... groan ... on and off ... writhe she could not ... as if in actual ... agony ... but could not ... could not bring herself ... some flaw in her make-up ... incapable of deceit ... or the machine ... more likely the machine ... so disconnected ... never got the message ... or powerless to respond …

Samuel Beckett, 'Not I' (1971)

[throbbinggristle]

Unknown / Anaïs Nin - House of Incest (1936) / Maya Deren - At Land (1944) / Anne Sexton - Water (1962) / Milena Gierke - Wasserspiel I (1997) / Marina Tsvetaeva - Nocturnal Places (1923)

[throbbinggristle]

Joyce Mansour

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Hans Bellmer 1936

[jareckiworld]

Hans Bellmer (1902-1975)— A Thousand Girls No.2 [oil on board, 1939]

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