Interdream - Archive Of Alternate Endings

Mary Oliver, "The World I Live In", Felicity

paintings by Alyssa Monks

lumen prints by john fobes on flickr

Persian wool rugs

a girl in an impossible situation can build herself a mask to get out of directly participating in it. the mask can consume the girl. this is the nature of a borrowed face. in certain situations, the minotaur at the heart of the labyrinth can be convinced the girl is not a girl but a part of the labyrinth itself. a girl can move further and further away from the heart of the labyrinth by waiting for the minotaur to sneeze before she takes another step and then returning to being a motionless and compliant flagstone. a girl can breathe silently for the rest of her life and never regain a startle response. a girl can walk around the perimeter of the labyrinth in circles after getting out of it because the face that survives the labyrinth cannot fathom that the wall it follows might come to an end. these things may occur in the context of situations and events unknown to bystanders outside the labyrinth. circumstances transpire. a girl may transpire against them.

Mime in Love, Autochrome photographs by Alfonse Van Besten, 1912

well i used to be attracted to people but now im exclusively attracted to abstract art and the concept of death

Latin Youths at Lynch Park in Brooklyn, June 1974

Alice Notley, "The Poetry of Everyday Life" (1988)

By Li Hui