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Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hikoi mō Te Tiriti

Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 12m

Good stuff! Share more writing!

Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 5d

Hands in Susan Te Kahurangi King Untitled 1974-79; 1975-79. Her work both makes you want to draw, and wonder why anybody ever tried to draw since

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Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 9d

Can't go wrong!

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Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 9d

hell yeah this is great

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Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 11d

Which in turn brings me back to Merleau-Ponty, for whom impersonal alienation from one's own body is, paradoxically, the precondition for embodiment

Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 11d

Both bring me to Nicoll's 'Looking for the Gamic Gaze: Desire, Fantasy, and Enjoyment in Gorogoa' (2022), and its corrective to simplified notions of the gaze journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 11d

It reminded me of a bit in Resident Evil 1, where we walk into a room and realise too late we've been watching the 'wrong' image of ourselves

Max Coombes @maxcoombes.bsky.social · 11d

Insane sequence in The Spiral Staircase (1946) - we see Helen ascend the staircase, we realise it's a reflection, Helen sees her mirror image, in her reflection Helen remembers she cannot speak