Frida Kahlo by Nicholas Murray, New York, 1946
(full size)
k.d.: In high school, I took an aptitude test that said I was 98 percent guaranteed to be a mechanic.
Anne: I’d love to pull into your garage and see you wiping your hands on a greasy rag.
k.d.: I’d say, “How can I help you, little lady?“
Anne: And all the cute girls would come to your garage and the other mechanics wouldn’t get it.
k.d. and her good friend Anne Meredith in Rolling Stone, August 1993
London dyke March 2024
‘Even after forty years of dehydration in a musty specimen cabinet, mosses have been fully revived after a dunk in a Petri dish. Mosses have a covenant with change; their destiny is linked to the vagaries of rain. They shrink and shrivel while carefully laying the groundwork of their own renewal. They give me faith.’
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Cultural History of Mosses
The Dark Knight Returns by Alexander McQueen & Jeremy Scott.
Photographed by Sean Ellis for THE FACE, 1998.