These lovely photos were taken by Ms. Alison M. Brady. Remember this name.
Nearly everyone has experienced some sort of traumatic disconnect in their lives, whether it is a severance within the body/self or a break from family or friends. Much hysteria is rooted in such traumatic experience, one that cannot be integrated into a person’s understanding of the world. Freud, in “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” states, “Often times we tend to repeat a traumatic event over and over even until it becomes pleasurable.” This repetition contradicts our instinct to seek pleasure but, regardless, our mind has a tendency to repeat traumatic events in order to deal with them, as a way of mastering them. This repetition can take the form of dreams, storytelling, or even hallucination; my images allude to the cryptic mental re-scrambling through which our traumatic events resurface. When I conceive my images the questions I ask myself are: What is the state of normality? How can that normality be subverted, perverted, or generally transformed? When does this overcome the real and become psychotic? ALISON BRADY
Filed under: CULTURE, FASHION | Tags: FASHION, gladiator sandals, sandals, shoes, trends
If I see one more pair of gladiator sandals this weekend, I’m going to stab myself in the eye with a muji pen. And that would just be terrible, because I really love my muji pens, so can we please? I mean, I understand wanting to be trendy but, jesus, doesn’t anyone want to look different? Nay, a little bit special? I’m not saying that they don’t look cool, because sometimes they really do, but there comes a time in the life cycle of a trend when you have to say to yourself, “If Miley Cyrus is wearing the same shoes as I am, something is sorely awry with my taste.” Just a thought. HALEY
