There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. There's often two words … - Arca

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I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight. . . I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight. . . All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.

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There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. There's often two words that are close in meaning, yet what I'm trying to say is in between them, or it might be a little more layered and nuanced. Having this conversation with you is exciting, because I can feel you resonate, even though we're on the phone. That's really beautiful to me.

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You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me that felt really powerful and sensual in a way that was more feminine. For me, it's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day you wake up feeling masculine, and one day you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.

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A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.

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Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.

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There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.

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A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye. And something I always find beautiful about Jesse's work is that he finds beauty without any calculation. People say that his work is dark, but he never sees it as such. For him it's all almost about educating people to process why they feel disgust.

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