Soulless gaze3/15/2023 ![]() The only exception being the different design of their white stockings. They are side-by-side in matching corduroy dresses and white headbands in their dark hair. The photograph depicts the two young twin sisters standing vertically upright against the wall. The twins, Cathleen and Colleen, were seven years old in 1967 when Arbus spotted them at a small-town Christmas party. This iconic work of photographic art titled Identical Twins by Diane Arbus takes its form in black and white with an almost perfect square layout. And in all its perfectness and differentness, it also applies to this photograph. The eye of the beholder defines the art and the form that it takes it is never the other way around. Many people have different takes on this iconic photo and the meaning behind it. The photographer, however, called it differentness in identicalness’. This iconic photo by Diane Arbus has been described in many different ways: Artistic, freakish, creepy or haunting. The only way is down….Diane Arbus – Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 Introduction Imagine this being the last thing you behold before you fling yourself into the Tyne. These newly minted sorts housing boasts faux pillars, weird two tone gold and black railings and 3 cars in the shiny driveway, each with the hallmark of a class act, the personalised number plate… all parked over the rotting corpses of their competitors. the people who actually went out and earned their coin fairly. ![]() They reside in easily recognisable houses next to ‘old money’ i.e. ![]() They dwell in the posh bits of the city and are either money launderers, own a building firm or deal drugs. These pseudo rich make up a small but growing breed of Newcastle’s ******** with money. Lip fillers in motion like an immigrant dingy attached itself to her plastic face as she addresses her unruly, entitled brood while simultaneously emitting ear splitting gibberish into a diamante encrusted phone to her partner who will be older and fatter but exactly the same shade of creosote unless he is behind bars. Lastly, there will be the relatively new addition in the form of the 4×4 driving, screaming, anorexic perma tanned wag wannabe, complete with hair extensions and acrylic nails. On one level we have the stare a bit like a pleading or helpless dog who has been kicked or a torture victim who just knows it’s never going to stop, these people are in the minority and are most likely to find themselves atop a bridge after seeing all their ambitions mercilessly crushed on the wheel of apathy. You have to be born here to truly cultivate this. Should you find yourself atop a structure preparing to leap, be warned you won’t be doing this unnoticed, expect no privacy, geordies for some reason love to stare and have elevated this to olympic standards of goggling vacantly. It should be quicker than the train and certainly better than the international airport which is really a misnomer. There are famous bridges and as the River Tyne is apparently pollution free you should expire from drowning not breaking your neck on several pushchairs and inhaling ****. Obviously the best advice I can give anyone is leave via transport but sometimes things like circumstances, abject poverty and the sheer scale of hopelessness promoted on a daily basis means that sometimes an elegant swan dive from one of the lovely structures is in itself a way of leaving. Newcastle Upon Tyne, a quaint city boasting lots of architectural features from which you can hurl yourself off when life in this grey hued eugenics tribute act gets to much.
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