JUNE

to be an artist is to be equal to the present

                                                          Diamanda Galas

May

Friend, I want to shield you from all those monstrosities that I have lived through . . . I have been a demon myself and have crushed hearts like strawberries, gulping them down like jam made of pure anguish.  

                                                         Stanislaw Witkiewicz

April

There’s a quality of legend about freaks . . . Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their drama. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.

                                                                                                Diane Arbus