BAD MAGIC

Shane Balkowitsch

Self-portrait. 1948 - 1952

There are tales about half human - half beast like creatures emerging from the bottomless pit and strange moaning can be heard throughout the castle. There is one story about a duke who would pardon any criminal if they would be lowered into the pit using a rope and report back what they saw. One criminal was lowered into the pit and started to scream in terror. When they pulled him up they saw that his hair had turned all white and the man had gone mad.

Marianne Breslauer, Self-portrait, Berlin, 1933

the very fierce animal with only one horn is called unicorn. In order to catch it, a virgin is put in a field; the animal then comes to her and is caught, because it lies down in her lap. Christ is represented by this animal, and his insuperable strength by its horn. He, who lay down in the womb of the Virgin, has been caught by the hunters; that is to say, he was found in human shape by those who loved him --Jung 1953

As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh, Susan Sontag.

Barry Ryan - Krizia Ad (Linea Italiana 1979)

from @__ecclesia on ig . “empress diadem”

'shadow of descent' by maddy rosenberg, 2003 in the book as art: artists' books from the national museum of women in the arts - krystyna wasserman (2011)

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GERHARD RICHTER

13 Ghosts (1960) dir. William Castle

Man Ray · Ishvani Hamilton (1934)

Double Shadow, John Stezaker

Lugosi- DRACULA (1931)

It’s the Devil I love, Matthew Hansel