Legends 

siberian cows photographed by marina fomina, 2019

Margaret Bourke-White, Breadline (There’s no way like the American Way), 1937.

Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller

Here, a cheater course on caring for natural fibers!

1. Wool. Treat it like it has the delicate constitution of a Victorian lady and the conviction that baths are evil of a 17th century noble. (If I get in WATER my PORES will OPEN and I will CATCH ILL AND DIE.)

2. Cotton; easygoing. Will shrink a bit if washed and dried hot.

3. Silk; people think it’s like wool and has the constitution of a fashionably dying of consumption Victorian lady, but actually it’s quite tough. Can be washed in an ordinary washer, and either tumbled dry without heat or hung to dry.

4. Linen; it doesn’t give a shit. Beat the hell out of it. Historically was laundered by dousing it in lye and beating the shit out of it with wooden paddles, which only makes it look better. The masochist of the natural fiber world. Beat the fuck out of it linen doesn’t care. Considerably stronger than cotton. Linen sheet sets can last literal decades in more or less pristine shape because of that strength.The most likely natural fiber to own a ball gag.

the great slumber; aka blood puddle pillow by keetra dean dixon, 2004

ongoing series initiated in 2004. inspired by those suspenseful moments when a sleeping loved one is a little too still for a little too long. project goal: taking ownership of morbidly intrusive thoughts through humor & play.

Pam doesn’t want to be buried in a coffin, so she’s knitting her own recycled burial shroud: 👉 https://buff.ly/2YBw4kk

The Palestinian (1977)

the hag in folklore actually is symbolic of men being afraid that when women get older we’ll realize how shit they really are and eat them which is fair and they should be