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Hans Bellmer, Obliques magazine numéro spécial (1975)

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Unica Zürn - Plan of the House of Illnesses (1958)

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Alphonse Inoue copperplate print, High Tide No. 11

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Dame Darcy's Turn of the Century VHS, 1999

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Joyce Mansour

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La Poupée (1936) by Hans Bellmer. Black morocco leather binding by Louis Christy frames reliquary display cases made by Georges Hugnet on the front and back cover, each containing metal and jade garters attached to black silk stockings extending from a white lace-trimmed bloomer.

[spiresinthesnow]

Paris interior, ca. 1910

[milksockets]

simon yotsuya byouin gallery (2003)

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Lotte Pritzel with one of her many dolls in 1923. Rejecting Oskar Kokoschka’s commission for a replication of his lost lover in the form of an articulated doll, the dollmaker later became friends with Hans Bellmer, whose own fascination with dolls had roots in projected psychosexual obsessions, pedophilia, castration anxiety, and objectification of the female form as beckoning its own ruin.

[hollowdevotion]

stigmatic blood writing - the process whereby blood from the stigmata or bloody sweat is miraculously formed into writing, images, and symbols upon hankerchiefs, bandages etc.

[postconnaissance]

Léonor Fini - Illustration from Histoire d’O, 1963

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18th century faux beauty mark stickers

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Echoes of Silence (1965)

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19th century mother of pearl hand-carved with the crucifixion

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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)

[eyesaremosa1cs]

A Honiton lace wedding veil, circa 1900

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

how i feel tonight