pillow talk

Alison Scarpulla

i was discovered

stories made by us


'We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under.
The first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public…
The second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes…
Then there is the third category, the category of who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love…
And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present.'

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

'I mean, if we look back on the history of literature, it's always these really creased, repressed hysterics, if you like, who are enchained in these squalor-ridden rooms, who say the most poetic things about the human race. And you often find that the life and soul of the party, the person with all the punch-lines, had just nothing of any consequence to say about anything. So I think it takes that detachment because, when you're detached and sealed off, you have a very clear view of what's going on. You can stand back and you can look and you can assess. And you can't do that when you're totally immersed in people.'

- Morrissey, from an interview with Melody Maker in 1983