The Secretive Gaze of Chloe Sevigny and Tadanobu Asano

The image above is of Tadanobu Asano and Chloe Sevigny for Uniqlo’s Spring 2008 UT collection. “UT” is, as stated on Uniqlo’s website, “a limited edition collection of t-shirts designed by renowned artists, designers, photographers, etc.” What interests me today is this UT publicity photograph and what it might reveal to us. That is, what [...]

Nonhuman

The body adorned, the body’s metamorphosis into a garmented state - the interactive process - elevated both physically and imaginatively; The fashioned body as locus of reciprocity and individuality. Layering as self-transformation, on the periphery of self-visualization, never fully able to realize this realization in its wholeness. The fashioned body: the sticky tentacle for the [...]