sza — ctrl (2017)

David LaChapelle,

The Numinous: Frightening, intimate, overwhelming presence of the sacred.

The Aura: Gleam of unique objects, before we were jaded by photographs and reproductions.

The Uncanny: The creeping feeling that something is ghostly, and yet deeply familiar.

The Abject: An object that has no proper place in the world because it is both a part of us and a waste product.

ESP test at the American Society for Psychical Research

my golden birthday

beauty and photos by kia-patra allen

lighting by jalen turner

Let’s talk about hood gothic. Young men scrubbing blood and brains off their white sneakers with old toothbrushes. The caterwauling of crackheads in the alley, punctuated by what you hope is only a car backfiring or a kid playing with firecrackers.

Windows blacked out with aluminum foil and bedsheets, windows boarded up with plywood, broken windows gaping like enucleated eyes.

Winos babbling in tongues outside the corner store, beseeching man, god, and the devil himself for just one more dollar, one more bottle.

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