contagious decadence

Elliott Erwitt     Jack Kerouac, New York City     1953

Félix Vallotton (Swiss/French, 1865-1925)

Megumi Igarashi’s illustration of one of her trials (photo via @6d745/Instagram) 

Over the past two years, Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi has faced charges for distributing data that could be used to make 3D models of her vagina and for creating a yellow, yonic kayak, as well as small vagina-shaped plaster figurines, that she displayed in a Tokyo sex shop. According to the AP, a court ruled yesterday that Igarashi, who goes by “Rokudenashiko” (“good-for-nothing girl”), is guilty of obscenity for sharing the data but not for exhibiting her physical objects since they qualify as art under Japanese law.

From the Without series by Katrien De Blauwer

Drawn to the darker spectrum of human emotions Katrien de Blauwer shapes photographs from old magazines and weathered paper to enigmatic collages. Armed with a particular eye for cutting and cropping, what is shown is equally important to what remains hidden.

Thierry De Cordier (Belgian, born 1954)