Victoria Chang, From "Untitled #5, 1998", With My Back To The World

The Source of Life (2024) by Clayshaper — bases on “The Eclipse of the Sun in Venice” (circa 1842) by Ippolito Caffi

One of my favorite trail finds.

by Mika Ben Amar (@100o111)

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.

my mom took this nearly 10 years ago. she was outside and just happened to have her camera when some newlyweds went by on a bicycle for two

Two Women Kissing in Nature (b. 1859)

— by Georges Rochegrosse

new kind of guy dropped