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Jul 9th
I walk past this painting everyday. It hangs in the window of a gallery two blocks south of my apartment. There’s a glare in this photo, so for those of you who can’t quite make out the painter’s subject, let me describe it: In the center of the composition we have a pair of breasts, exactingly rendered to provide an accurate sense of weight and mass. Now, on this particular canvas, the weight and mass of these breasts approach, tragically, proportions suggesting gigantomastia, a rare condition also known as Soleil Moon Frye’s disease. These large, exactingly rendered breasts belong to a woman whose relative facelessness hovers around the top third of the composition. The bottom third is graced by her (or, judging by their scrawniness, a hospice patient’s) legs, which are wrapped round a bowl containing nondescript foliage.
Art historians will instantly recognize this as a classic of the genre known as Masturbatory Visions By Men Who Are Fooling No One.
Kodak Easyshare M320 Digital Camera | 5mm, f/2.8, 1/50th, ISO 80,
