Sugar Rush: Sugar as Desire, a Record of Fatal Addiction and Detoxification
We all live with memories of being addicted to someone. Whether that addiction is to sugar, a person, or the fleeting pleasure they provide. Teenage love is often idealized as a foundation for…
La répétition: The Destructive Aesthetics of Recurring Obsession and Ambivalence
To desire someone fervently is sometimes akin to the desire to dismantle their life entirely. When a shadow, cloaked in the name of love, begins to encroach upon another’s daily existence, should we…
Love Lies Bleeding: The Aesthetics of the Moment Where Destructive Desire Becomes Salvation
When we witness the deficiencies of others, we are instinctively overcome by a strange impulse to either recoil or fill those voids. Among the many relationships packaged under the name of “love,” the…
Orange Is the New Black: Redefining Desire and Redemption Within the Walls
Love can be an intruder that shatters a peaceful daily life, yet it can also serve as the sole support sustaining a broken self. In an isolated space where orange jumpsuits have become…
Cracks: A Record of Twisted Attachment and Envy Born from the Lacuna of Deprivation
All envy grows in the soil of solitude. When we discover a light in another that we do not possess ourselves, we either desire to own that light or wish to become that…
