Crotch Photograph – The Hundred Headless Woman

A surreal quest for multiple identities and a desire to taste the unknowable through cut-up and collage. Her various parts constitute the whole, her body rearranges itself into new forms in my dreams. Conceal the seams and integrate the segments. A woman with 100 heads and also no head at all, she is a mythic figure that bears no single face and is constantly changing. Which identity of mine best suits her fancy?

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"The Hundred Headless Woman is (Max) Ernst’s first collage novel. It features a loosely narrative sequence of uncanny Surrealist collages, made by cutting up and reassembling nineteenth-century illustrations, accompanied by Ernst’s equally strange captions. Ernst’s French title, La Femme 100 têtes, is a double entendre; when read aloud it can be understood as either “the hundred-headed woman” or “the headless woman.”"
-Gallery label from Max Ernst: Beyond Painting, September 23, 2017-January 1, 2018, MoMA, New York.

All sounds by Furtograffer.
Recorded in Las Vegas, May-June, 2022.
Equipment used includes Hadron Collider noise synth, contact microphones, effects pedals, and cassette tape samples.