lustmord

TRIGGER WARNING: interpreted mention of rape 

from Jenny Holzer’s "Lustmord" exhibition
in 1994, Jenny Holzer (a favourite artist of mine) unveiled her series "Lustmord" at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York. the title is a German word meaning murder plus sexual pleasure and the project is complex and though-provoking as it redefines the conventional relationship between desire and the gaze. Holzer was responding to the systematic rape and murder of thousands of women in brutal acts of ‘ethnic cleansing’ during the Bosnian War.

new year’s resolutions

yeah, let’s stick to these!!! (i sincerely apologize for all this beginning-of-year enthusiasm, but don’t worry they’ll be no trace of it when school starts up again.)

• stop tearing up in public, especially over Simon & Garfunkel lyrics
• dress better and wear more prints
• avoid allowing piles of junk accumulating in my bedroom
• keep a full diary
• stop spending all my pocket money on Magnums from my school’s tuckshop and instead on cute things from Etsy
•  go swimming more often
• start working harder at school
• write more and do more creative stuff
• stress less

The Velvet Underground, Beginning To See The Light 

(i'm not but it seems quite occasion-appropriate, no?)