hysterical strength

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Look at this house. This house has no mortar so it can be collapsed or moved to avoid taxation. That’s the sort of innovation I need to be seeing before you can call anyone in a feudal society a tax fraudster. They need to be hiding warehouses of goods, shoving grandpa in the basement to dodge the censusman, starting small regional wars, fleeing their villages in a constant semi-nomadic race against the forces of government, registering twins as a single child, or putting their life on the line to sell blackmarket bread. Come back when you have some tax fraud I can respect, not just a guy who looks kind of sleazy and sometimes does paperwork.

Celia Paul, “Burning Painter” (2025), oil on canvas (© Celia Paul; photo courtesy the artist, Gladstone and Victoria Miro)

June, 2025

the romance of all time

Internet Archive

Kel Ferwan; Aïr, Niger, 1990. Scanned from the book Les tenues des Touaregs; Fonds documentaire de Michel Vallet; 2019; Catherine Vaudour

brooches by robin kranitzky + kim overstreet, 1990 in one of a kind: american art jewelry today - susan grant lewin (1994)

Ifoghas; Ghât, 1999. Scanned from the book Les tenues des Touaregs; Fonds documentaire de Michel Vallet; 2019; Catherine Vaudour

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