CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/3/2017

'Jack Pierson: The Hungry Years' is a Pride Month Staff Pick

Featured images are reproduced from Jack Pierson: The Hungry Years, Damiani's ineffably eloquent recent collection of the artist's '80s photographs. “I don’t know who I am,” Eileen Myles writes in her Introduction. "We’re just passing through these frames, these arcades wandering through the world in our bodies. Sad animals. And we prefer certain bodies like we prefer certain woods. Animals have preferences. Everybody does. Preference is animation. Giving it a soul—time does it for a body or a rusted ceiling with so many of these bulbs missing and each leaves a small black hole. The tawdry side of life is celestial. The rich many not know that at all. They begin forgetting everything.”