#aesthedick.

Man on Stairs,  1993

Gillian Flynn ― Gone Girl

warmth

/henry winter/

Oil on canvas, 26 x 22 in.

Fugazi

this is why i try to avoid belittling richard as a character. because yes, he’s a dumbass and reading about his blatant idealization can be like fingernails on a chalkboard, but his degree of self-awareness is one of the greatest factors of the novel. It forces the reader to take what he gives us with a grain of salt and allows for an enormous magnitude of individual interpretation. it’s what makes the other characters so dynamic. they are all a combination of what richard says they are and what we may imagine they could be. the only thing that can be taken as the truth is richard’s inclination towards misrepresentation. it’s a paradox, and it’s what makes donna tartt such a brilliant writer.

— written by Donna Tartt, from The Secret History (pages 6-12), originally published c. 1992

Wojtek Czerski by Morgan O’Donovan - Backstage at Dries Van Noten SS15

Wojtek Czerski by Colby Blount

Matthieu Raffard http://www.matthieuraffard.com/

Credit ▪ London’s Fashion Week Backstage/Lou Dalton’s Fall/Winter 2015-2016

Richard Siken