faces @ all in ss24

"One workday, while we were waiting to shoot, Roman [Polanski] was discoursing about the impossibility of long-term monogamy given the brevity of a man's sexual attraction to any woman. An impassioned John Cassavetes responded that Roman knew nothing about women, or relationships, and that he, John, was more attracted than ever to his wife, Gena Rowlands. Roman stared at him and blinked a few times, and for once had no reply."

- from Mia Farrow's memoir

~ Gray and White ~

Sun on the horizon (Naomi Kawase, 1996)

a...old man mug. so many questions and i want no answers.

Yumna Al-Arashi, Axis of Evil (Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq), 2020

in Leica Fotografie International (LFI) magazine:

"This photograph was made for my first European solo show in Berlin, in the gallery Anahita Contemporary. It's a self-portrait alongside Anahita Sadighi, Moshtari Hilal and Susu AbdulMajid. We are respectively from Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite our different roots I noticed that we all share a similar background, having grown up in Western nations that often vilify the places our families are from. I also noticed the strong profiles of each of our faces. So I decided to create this portrait with the title Axis of Evil – a play on the term so frequently used to describe our home countries when we were growing up. It also embraces the beauty of our distinctive noses, which are often treated as ugly, something to be changed. I wanted to embrace these qualities of ours in this image, creating something powerful, defiant."

GENA ROWLANDS | FACES (1968) DIR. BY JOHN CASSAVETES

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NANCY WHEELER in STRANGER THINGS 4.09 | Chapter Nine: The Piggyback

various stars

in an astrological-alchemical manuscript, germany, late 14th century

source: Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 2372, fol. 62r-75r

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PICK ME, PLEASE // MOLLY MENDOZA

Print available July 3rd through Gallery Nucleus Portland

~ Orange and Blue ~