Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book Of Hours, Translated By Anita Barrows And Joanna Macy

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.

Jane Irish "Museo di Casa Martelli" 2013 gouache on Tyvek 24x21" (courtesy of Locks Gallery)

“I love you to death” on a seat of the abandoned Versailles theater. Beirut, Lebanon. November 26, 2013

Photo by Myriam Boulos

Victoria Chang, from "Untitled #5, 1998", With My Back to the World

— Chen Chen, from When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities; “Elegy” (via lunamonchtuna)

keep me, collect me

© Vivian Maier | Chicago 1978 | The Independent Photographer

By the highway, out on the edge of town

unicorn art by roger and linda garland