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What You’re Seeing (and Why): Between Visibility and Consent

Black-and-white photo of a corseted torso, taken with consent.
Taken with full consent, long ago. Still mine. Still fits 2005-2025

A Note on What You’re Paying For

I think often about the distinction between being body-aware and being body-sold.
The difference between presence and performance.
Between letting myself be seen—and offering myself for purchase.

And yet I’m frequently asked:
What’s behind the paywall?

This post isn’t a tease. It’s a boundary.
It’s here to clarify the terms of engagement—not to bait or convert.

So here’s the short version:

You’re not paying for sex.
You’re not paying for nudes.
You’re not paying to watch me fall apart, confess, or seduce you.

You’re paying to step into a space where the body is allowed to be seen—
with authorship, not availability.
Where intimacy is framed, not extracted.
Where visibility happens on my terms, not yours.

This archive is not a product.
It’s a record.
A boundary.
A container.
And for those who can hold that distinction, access is available.

This is part of a larger system. A larger spell. This isn’t a single post. It’s a philosophy.

What you see next was not consensual. I didn’t know this photo was being taken.
Not fully. Not with clarity. Not with agreement.
And yet it exists—framed by someone else’s taste, someone else’s art, someone else’s room.

I’m including it here not to reclaim it, but to mark it.
Because people talk about consent as if it’s a switch.
As if the presence of a body means permission.
As if erotic visibility is always an offering.

It’s not.

This image lives here because I say it can.
Not because it was ever meant to.

I didn’t know this photo was being taken. The body is mine. The framing was not.
Back cover of Francesco Clemente catalog showing an Italian quote about artistic subtraction and revelation. Text reads: "Some painters add, others subtract. I belong to those who subtract. I don’t add color, I take it away. I don’t construct, I reveal."
“Some painters add, others subtract. I belong to those who subtract. I don’t add color, I take it away. I don’t construct, I reveal.” —Francesco Clemente (back cover)