Furniture

Furniture

The society described in Rieko Yoshihara's Japanese novel (and later anime series) Ai no Kusabi has within its caste system "Furniture", or eunuchs who act as servants to the highest social class. 

Towards a eunuch aesthetic, I collect symbols and metaphors that will serve as themes for a future masculine/liminal art:

• Furniture and home decor, possibly baroque or heavily patterned

• A slight smell of piss, as from a leaking urethra

• Tools and implements for the surgical procedures; their shapes

• A rounded human silhouette, gynecomastia, a boyish face

• Liminality, neutrality and non binary systems of organization

• The greater and lesser seals, and other scars related to castration

• The letters A, E and T, or their absence; sounds Sp, Ck, Sc

• Special attention given to transitions; cuts, fades, wipes, juxtapositions

• Highlighting difference, change, ambitions for metamorphoses