Category: December 2017

McKenna James, Then You Feel Magnitudes, 2017.

I love you he says when
his hair falls in my face,
his eyes are on my eyes,
his nose brushes against my cheek,
his fingers trace my jaw,
his lips embrace my lips,
his arm leans against my chest,
his chest hovers over my heart,
his legs wrap around my legs,
and my arms lie dead at my side
because I have never been more uncomfortable in my life.
Or in love.

Media art and photography by Karen Forbes
Model: Shayla Hickerson

Photography of first and last image by Shayla Hickerson
Photography of second image by Fiona Robinson
Models: Jacqueline Heinrich, Adrianna Harvey, Taylor Shaw

Calculus and Vectors
Graph my face and call it art.

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Touch Starved
I’ve been waiting like les Demoiselles have been waiting for their next client: eagerly

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Untitled
Lay me out
Like a load of laundry needed to dry
On a hot summer’s day.

(Courtesy of Shayla Hickerson, 2017)

Photography by Shayla Hickerson
Models: Sharon Selfies, Saskia Pateman, Jacqueline Heinrich

Photography by Karen Forbes
Model: Allison Drechsler

Courtesy of Shayla Hickerson (2017)

Porcelain Skin
Hit me with a hammer,
and I will crack.
Poke with me a sewing needle
and I will shatter.

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Humility
I stood before you, naked.
My clothes found refuge at my feet.
And I wondered if I should be humiliated
With the odd angles at which my body curved
Inwards and out.
You found my shyness cute.

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Figment
I am but a mist hanging behind the pull of your eyelids. A figment of your imagination melting in the eavesdrop after a chilling winter spent in yesterday’s embrace. The rotation of the record player started to match that of the rotation belonging to the roll of your eyes viewed in high definition from my front row seat, whilst the rate of my heart paused. The little dream you dreamt of me faded through translucent pixels as the melancholic melody was heard through a final, whispered vinyl revolution.