PhotoCollage: No real girl would ever think about using his bathroom. People often assume he's a girl. They're wrong to assume this and it hurts his feelings.
Which are easily mangled.
Conceivably, these assumptions might have something to do with the eye shadow which is ironic because he only rarely allows anyone to even see the eyes which are hidden somewhere in the cosmic fortress of the eternal bangs.
Le Garçon est la Façon trop Jeune dans les Couches. Don't call him Dominique. You will get his thousand mile stare whether you can see his eyes or not. Usually not. I don't know how he functions in the darkroom with all his film and cameras. The darkroom is the only place he spends more time in than the bathroom. You may call him Dom. I do slip sometimes and refer to him as Dominique but only when I am definitely ...
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PhotoCollage: No real girl would ever think about using his bathroom. People often assume he's a girl. They're wrong to assume this and it hurts his feelings.
Which are easily mangled.
Conceivably, these assumptions might have something to do with the eye shadow which is ironic because he only rarely allows anyone to even see the eyes which are hidden somewhere in the cosmic fortress of the eternal bangs.
Le Garçon est la Façon trop Jeune dans les Couches. Don't call him Dominique. You will get his thousand mile stare whether you can see his eyes or not. Usually not. I don't know how he functions in the darkroom with all his film and cameras. The darkroom is the only place he spends more time in than the bathroom. You may call him Dom. I do slip sometimes and refer to him as Dominique but only when I am definitely not amused or, in other words, annoyed.
Annoyed means he needs to clean the bathroom. If there's a disaster zone anywhere on the planet, it's whatever bathroom Dom happens to be using. For someone who is so excruciatingly fastidious (on any given day Dom spends two to three hours in there primping) that fastidiousness emerges from the swampzone that is his bathroom. I try not to go in there. The movie "Saw Three" was filmed in Dom's bathroom. A torturous mess of monsters and zombies back from the bacterial dead. His socks live in there. No girl wants to know about those socks.
Dom arrived late one night with a bunch of other runaways. Boys slightly older than he was.
Having done Amsterdam, they were on their way to Barcelona.
Dom never made it to Barcelona.
"You need a photography assistant," he said.
So much for Barcelona.
He does keep the video workshops I do somewhat organized and he never fails to collect the money. Collecting the money is important.
His bathroom is a total disconnect.
He hates being teased. About his being a girl.
I have seen this reduce him to tears. For all his streetwise veneer, toughness only goes so deep.
If I can't find him, it usually means he's on the roof which is where he'll escape the teasing to.
"I LIKE the eye shadow," he told me.
Paris was dark and damp that night. I did not want to be up on the roof with my arthritic bones.
I shrugged. "They're jealous, Dom."
"Of what."
"Beauty has an ugly stepsister. Wherever Beauty goes, the ugly stepsister is never too far behind. Her name is Miss Jealousy and she's one mean and evil bitch."
"That's why I wear the eye shadow."
"Why is that."
"I'm ugly. It helps me not be so ugly."
I do know his guts by now. You could sit there for a year or two, insisting he's not ugly, but you may as well be talking to the wall.
"You make beautiful stuff in the darkroom, Dom."
"I do."
My eyes to the sky which was pitch black and heavy as lead.
Making stuff.
I know this: Making Art is going to set him free. I don't know a lot of things. The fucking future is way beyond me. I am hard-pressed to deal with right here, right now. Lately, Dom's been taking photos of his feet. Please, don't ask me to explain it. I can't. I wouldn't know where to begin. He doesn't know who he is. To know who he is, he has to emerge from behind the bangs and it's hard.
Maybe. To know who you are, you have to start at the feet and work your way up.
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- Year Created: 2008
- Submitted to ArtBase: Monday Jan 7th, 2008
- Original Url: http://le-janvier-36.blogspot.com
- Permalink: http://le-janvier-36.blogspot.com
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Work Credits:
- Janvier Lun, creator
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