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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: the PINUP is a disturbance of duplication, shape-shifting
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:34:46 -0400 (EDT)
the PINUP is a disturbance of duplication, shape-shifting she comes in all sizes and one shape http://www.asondheim.org/pinup.jpg the PINUP is an exercise in shape-morphing In these modified images from a Santa Ana storefront, nothing is revealed - a restrained come-hither look (for production) combined with an absence of nipples, labia, the liquidity of the body's repose. Duplicated most likely from original photographs, they're already copyright, readied for distribution; I've stolen their souls from the store-front, for which, in Mea Shearim, in orthodox Jerusalem, I would be stoned. The figures look beneath the robes of the orthodox; orthodoxy always requires robes, hiding the pillar of the erection, the vaginal cave. What opens is only the wound of desire - the breasts cut, castration, flagellation, death to the pleasure of god. I see the saints in these women, the last vestiges of a human race before complete devastation sets in. Already photographs 'like these' litter the streets of Brooklyn and Hollywood, begging for commerce. Every human equation has, if not AIDS, any other disease of the body, tearing itself to pieces. We are all deliverers of our own deaths; our casket, the flesh, our rites long-since shattered. I am a fixture.