The Mezzazine

Sarah Kathryn Cleaver is a writer and researcher with a degree in photography. Hovering between the art and fashion worlds, her work centres around desire, distance and the unrequited. She has worked at Nick Knight's SHOWstudio, the V&A and Transition Gallery. She lives in a mezzanine.

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Anaïs Nin loved perfume so much she even used to dream about it.

"There is a round communion table—yes. People walk to it with folded hands, but smiling. You are given a small bottle of holy water which you must drink. As I take mine I see it is a small bottle of Chypre perfume. I smell it and instead of drinking it I pour it over myself. I am extremely elated." - (Diary 35, pp. 243-244)

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“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t mean ‘sugary.’ It’s dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain.”

— Catherine Breillat, from The Last Mistress

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Neil Rodger

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Dream last night: I was dancing a tango-like dance with a very short, small man. He was a brilliant dance partner except that when it came time to tip me backwards he couldn’t because he was too small and weak. Nonetheless people applauded.

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Tsukasa Hojo

From the Tsukasa Hojo Illustration Book

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The sub-debs put on their best long dresses for the quiet candlelight ceremony which makes Rita Wiliford a full-fledged member of Beta Beta Sigma

Nina Leen, “Sub-Deb Clubs,” Life, April 2, 1945

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The Night Porter (1974) dir. Liliana Cavani

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Dream Last Night: Dangerous little red man in a barbie box. I accidentally cut through the plastic and he turns into a tiny red fly and attacks me biting me and stabbing me ferociously. At the same time A’s aunt is visiting at my suggestion and we have to take her to a gallery.

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Late Victorian mourning hair reliquary circa 1900 © Collection Jean-Jacques Lebel; Exhibition “The Art of Hair” at Musee du Quai Branly, curated by Yves Le Fur.

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Dream last night:

Very frightened and upset because my white cotton shoes were sinking into the mud.

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Dream last night: Felt a strong urge to have sex with some ultra pink balloons. Briefly considered that I could make a good living as a balloon porn star. Woke up.

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Dream Last Night: I was going to interview Rihanna on the radio. I even wrote questions, one of which I remember 'Can you astrally project?' Just before I was about to go on air I woke up. 

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Dream Last Night: 

There was a part where an old woman was on an operating table and the Drs were arguing about how to save her and one of them accidentally cut her head off. Sometimes in the dream I was a bride and sometimes I was a cat, and I was very pissed off with my husband to be, who kept flying over the mountains on a big unicycle wind turbine. Later I found he had dressed up as a woman and was singing in a tea shop with some women in my family. Pretending to ignore him I opened a cupboard in the wall and found all the dresses I've thrown away in my life. At the heart of the dream was a murder mystery of which person had cut my rich grandmother's head off, and my husband to be was actually a detective trying to find the answer.

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Michel Picard - Christian Dior Boutique Ad (L’Officiel 1979)

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Making swans out of icing in a McCall’s Magazine short “Cake Decorating,” c. 1960s.

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