Gabby Bess

If originality is a __ense of novelty and freshness_ then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We construct a self-portrait, relying on existing objects _ books, quotes from authors and artists, images, art _ that we are more than happy to show off to others for them to use as masturbation material or for the material by which they align themselves. This is the new action painting _ the curational archive. The referential self portrait. The portrait of any other artist could be readily used to explain yourself, just reblog it and caption it with __ame._ The past consistently becomes the present, not through linear time, but through the constant reconstruction and relabeling of it.

Paige had a sadness that was so desperate that it could not yet turn into anger.

I wouldn__ be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.

Look at this existence. This pathetic, fallible, wonderful body,_ you can say rhetorically, sarcastically, or earnestly and still achieve death. Look at me falling in love with fallible bodies. Look at me performing emotional labor