Mary´s Nightmare
Smoking long cigarettes did not compensate for
the loss, inhaled, with hot air between her lips
Remained untasted for aeons of time
There is a figure behind those curtains
slowly vanishing through grey curling clouds
Like memories, blurring
Grey ashes, extinct fires
Silently, she sings an obituary on chances never taken
and the waste of youth, untouched by the hands of time
What if the past was an ashtray full of longings?
Slowly fading out the lights and glimmer
Dry leaves rolled up and burned
Burn the poems!
Burn them!
After all, they are just sticky graves of thoughts!
(And they end up in Purge-a-tory)
July 25th, 2010 at 07:35
real great work mademoiselle, its one of the most honest and most controversial blattwerk works of all time – but please explain the meaning of the photoshoped ( or gimped ) images. i can’t get it… beside: your literally skilles are beyond debate … just love it!
July 27th, 2010 at 10:54
first of all: thanks luke! :)
so… concerning the aesthetics, or non-aesthetics of these images …
well I think that bulimia is UGLY, it is the culmination of ugliness in a woman´s life. but it is a daemon that it is closely connected to the slender images of beauty and female “purity” we have in our society. the female body is object of obsessions: in church, in beauty industry, in bulimia. there is a constant glorification of specific forms/”norms” of female beauty, including female role models going on (cf. media-brainwash). I don´t want my images to be aesthetic thus. they are supposed to be ugly. it´s the ugly that no-one wants to see.
further I want the work to be trash. like all those magazines. like souvenirs from mariazell.
almost all feminist art has been considered trash by male society first. feminist writers were accused of writing pure nonsense, their works not being worth labelled literature (e.g. gertrude stein amongst others).
it is a great honour to me, if you consider my work unsuccessful. consider it crap and you do me a favour!
so, thank you …
July 27th, 2010 at 11:07
sorry, forgot to log in first … “anonymous” is me in that case …
besides: isn´t it a nightmare?