in somnia

# **Do I turn into light**

# **if I burn alive?**

*Televangelist*, Julien Baker

Look from the <n>Gareth Pugh</n> Fall/Winter 2012-2013 collection.

The Rosenrot | A Collection of Fashion Essays

<n>Fragments of Forgotten Light</n> by <n>Serifa</n>.

🥇 IMÁGENES DE ÁNGELES con Frases & Sus Alas BONITAS ✅

The cover of the book <n>The Age of the Succubus</n> by artist <n>Nona Limmen</n>.

I was thinking bladed-edged, but...

***What if the feathers are*** ***bone char?***

## **[A ridge of supraorbital bone and a cut-off curve of parietal, a bulge of zygomatic cheekbone, a shard leading down to the maxilla.]**

*She held it between her hands, and you could see her hesitate; she did not appear to be the hesitating type. Her thumb gently stroked the leather thong closing the drawstring neck—rested there lightly—and then she offered it to you.*

*She silently proffered this shabby little bag, about as big as your two hands cupped together, as if it were a casket filled with jewels. You knew before you touched it what was within. What you did not understand was why.  You opened the bag and removed its contents before her dark and stony gaze. It was not particularly full. You cupped the thing between your palms, and marvelled.*

*It was a* ***cracked piece of human skull—a ridge of supraorbital bone and a cut-off curve of parietal, a bulge of zygomatic cheekbone, a shard leading down to the maxilla.*** *That was all. As a skull, it was not particularly interesting—male, early twenties, maybe eight months dead—****but as a reconstruction, it was incredible.*** *The piece had been assembled from fragments, manually, and not by a bone magician.* ***The smallest would have been no bigger than the moon of your cuticle.***

***It had been painstakingly—passionately—laboriously reassembled,*** *from the skull of someone who, soon after death or symptomatically during, had exploded. There were miniature cracks where it had been glued. You turned it over and over in your hands.*

*~ Harrow the Ninth,* Tamsyn Muir

the connections and progressions from **structural, neatly folded techwear** to **practical breathable fabric** to **gauze**, **veil**, *ethereal or immaterial* — *insubstantial* — to holes that evoke the **rending of clothes in mourning**