bits&bites

Long have I lain here before thee

And after thee Long shall I lie

Long Have the grasses my bones Long Have the worms my flesh Long Have I gained a thousand names Long Have I forgot my name

Long have I lain here before thee And after thee Long shall I lie

from Kameni spavač/Stone Sleeper by Mak Dizdar

translated by Francis R. Jones, 1999

Vulvae,c.1850

[Artist unknown]

Diana Slip, a French lingerie company from the 1930’s owned by Léon Vidal. To say that they were a “lingerie company” is actually a bit loose . To be clearer, it was more like part of a erotica-supply conglomerate that made and sold fetish wear, condoms, erotic books and photography, and established the Librarie de la Lune (which I’m assuming is a pornographic reading room, but I haven’t been able to find concrete information on that.) They also produced a series of illustrated catalogues/magazines (including Lingerie Libertines and The Paris Magazine) with excellent fine art photographers such as Brassai, Jean Moral and Roger Schall. 

48 hours in Bordeaux Paper collage on panel, 21x29.7cm