Sit And Stay For Awhile

Q Lazzarus’s “Goodbye Horses”

As Above So Below band by Arcana Obscura Designs

Date: 1903

The artist’s bed, presented in the state she claimed it had been while in the midst of a suicidial depression brought on by relationship difficulties. Empty booze bottles, cigarette butts, stained sheets, worn panties, “the bloody aftermath of a nervous breakdown”, My Bed was a scandalous installation in its day and though it wasn’t the winner of the Turner Prize, its notoriety has persisted. 

Siouxsie Sioux by Claude Gassian, 1982

Nutcracker Fantasy, 1979, Takeo Nakamura

Concept art for Cinderella (1950), by Mary Blair

Guess this will hurt for a while

Nobuyoshi Araki - The Banquet, 1993