“Fantasies are my reality”- N.M.
“Man, in effect, knows how to play with the mask as that
beyond which there is the gaze.”
–Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental
Concepts of Pyscho-Analysis
“Assuming power is no simple process […] for power is not mechanically
reproduced when it is assumed. Instead, on being assumed, power runs the risk
of assuming another form and direction.”
–Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of
Power
“black minstrels could initially not but reaffirm the
‘distorted black spectre already dominating the stage' and offer white
audiences a kind of ‘comfort and resistance’ in their beliefs about blacks’
natural inferiority”
–Mel Watkins, On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying, and
Signifying—The Underground Tradition of African American Humour that
Transformed American Culture, from Slavery to Richard Pryor
Huggins notes that black performers “tried to use the
stereotype as an instrumental satire” by distancing themselves from damaging
representations through exaggeration. (Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Harlem
Renaissance) -" Of Blackface and Paranoid Knowledge: Richard Wright, Jacques Lacan, and the Ambivalence of Black Minstrelsy" by Mikko Tuhkanen
“I say girls are beautiful and girls are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don’t have anyone to tell them that and mean it, I’m gonna tell them that.” -N.M.
What is the line between beauty and absurdity, the mask of the ideal and the undercover where the mask slips and the last line of defense becomes an attack. When the character of the character and then the character: Note my expression. Note my facial expression. Note my expression in contrast to what I deliver. Note my expression in contrast to the body. Note my expression.
"swollen clitties wander cities/ shadow and conventions from/ the whole of photography"
-Rachel Blau Duplessis, Draft 48, Being Astonished
object: central complex for the collision
to interpret alone or in a group
at the rate at which outside of the mind
determines
& begins to order the external
cut down and formed by the first impression
whittled away by every subsequent thought
body-in-pieces vs. body without pieces
tangled in the trespass place
lips against
a line not unknotted
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