Serepax

Because the world needs more overwrought candour.

Saturday, May 29, 2004

Like fences, like cages, clothes are double-edged, ambivalent; keeping the world out, protecting the wearer, but also raising barriers between people, ornamentation, buffers, fences.

Without clothes, people unfold, and when clothes are shared against the world (a doona), this is when conversations are real, shorn of pretences and swagger.