Tag Archives: laurie essig

plastic fantastic: you look fabulous!

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Dave

Carefully structured violence packaged and passed off as spontaneous beauty, reproductions of the divine mean as a reflection of that inner you. Everyone is a Venus. What is the alternative? The aesthetic condemnation of the ugly as a symptomatic expression … Continue reading →

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skin deep

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Dave

Its at the nexus, that volatile inflection point between emotion and capitalism somehow tied into the fascist aryan ideal of beauty. A world of choreography following the Leni Riefenstahl template. I faintly remember my grandmother pushing me to eat, to … Continue reading →

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doctor i’d like a divine proportion

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Dave

McBeauty. Is happiness an inside job? If it ain’t broken don’t fix it. Hardly.No black swans. Cosmetic surgery, a procrastination of the genetic code is situated at the charged sweet spot between emotion and capitalism. A heady mix. Part of … Continue reading →