the world is full of crashing bores

like I would drink a Coca Cola (hating every sensory moment) and feel excited about participating in a Normal activity. I listened to 20 second samples of Avril Lavigne songs at Barnes and Noble and think, “oh yes, this is what normal American children do, look at me, I’m doing it too”

8 year old me: “Wow. I’m doing it. I’m really doing it. I bet I seem just like a Normal Kid. I bet this looks natural, like I do it every day without even thinking about it. If those people see me eating this pizza they will think, ‘Wow, what a regular child! Just like the ones on TV!’”

Liya Kebede in Survival of the Chicest, photographed by Mikael Jansson for W June/July 2013.

All these years I’ve been looking at the wrong side.

Caren Jepkemei Love Magazine #24 ph. Campbell Addy

Janet Jumbo by Carlijn Jacobs for M Le Magazine Du Monde March 2020.

— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters

Helmut Newton ~ Crocodile Eating Ballerina, 1983 (from the Pina Bausch ballet ‘Keushleitslegende’)

screenprint on unstretched canvas 55.5 x 35.5 cm

Chloë Sevigny, 1999 | ph. Mark Borthwick

from the dream sequences in The Omen (2006)

Devon Aoki photographed by Anthony Mandler for Vibe, 2003.