intimacy

Nan Goldin. Couple in bed, Chicago, USA, 1977.
Goldin is often present at very intimate moments in the lives of her close friends. The trust they develop allows her to capture what is usually kept private and to make it public. This has always been one of her concerns - pushing the boundaries of social taboos. This image seems to express what Goldin perceives as the peculiar estrangement and alienation that often occurs after sex between men and women. Within intimacy there is often a great distance - a paradox that Goldin daringly explored in her best-know work, The Ballard of Sexual Dependency.

erotic

Cotton Candy Clouds. Will Cotton, 2004.

underwater

Via.
Thanks to all the friends who came out to the garage sale and supporting my Essie nail polish fund.

Cotton

Reverie. Will Cotton, 2008.

ArtHooligans x Breillat

Some friends and I like to get together every Wednesday (or just about) to check out art galleries. It started because that's the night the AGO and the ROM are free but it's blossomed into this awesome hangout night and a great way to get out to various local galleries around Toronto that I might not have gone to otherwise. The other week we went to The Power Plant which is a great contemporary gallery. Tonight we had a special edition to see a screening of Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard, it was a fantastic retelling of the classic fairytale. I'm no good at reviews but watch it sometime, you won't be disappointed. I particulary enjoyed the eating scenes, everyone feasts with such relish in silene and also how some of the humourous scenes descends into depths of ridiculeness.

Speaking of provocative, Photobucket.com are a bunch of fucking puritans (ha!) they deleted the Nan Goldin photo I uploaded 'cause I guess they have some sort of anti-women's-breasts rule. I repeat, there are nothing wrong with women's nipples.

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Joana Topless at the Chateau le Bastion. Nan Goldin, 2000.