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V. H. SCORP

V. H. SCORP

[Text ID: “Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.”]

Alexis Kapaun in The Photographic Journal by Whitney Hayes. Styled by Stephanie Dimiskovski, hair by Wade Lee, make up by Akiko Owada.

[Text ID: “What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?”]

[Text ID: “How heavy my mind is, filled with the past. Is there enough room for the world to penetrate? It must go somewhere, it cannot simply sit on the surface—”]

[Text ID: “Love is an illusion, but I would willingly fall for it if I could believe in it.”]

[Text ID: “That it’s fair⏤it has to be⏤how our hands hurt us, then give us the world. How you can love the world until there’s nothing left to love but yourself.”]

[Text ID: “If it is so difficult to begin, imagine what it will be to end—”]

[Text ID: “I sleep and my heart stays awake.”]

Poesia Invernale, Fontana di Trevi (Winter Poetry, Trevi Fountain), 1956. Fabrizio La Torre. Archival pigment print.