Maisie Cousins’ ultimate story for Lampoon Magazine, the Muscles issue is a dodecaphonic composition of decay, consumption and wet sexual allusions
The present, nothing but the present – Maisie Cousins for Lampoon Magazine, the Muscles issue
«I looked anxiously around me: the present, nothing but the present. Furniture light and solid, rooted in its present, a table, a bed, a closet with a mirror-and me.
The true nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, and all that was not present did not exist. The past did not exist. Not at all.
Not in things, not even in my thoughts. It is true that I had realized a long time ago that mine had escaped me. But until then I had believed that it had simply gone out of my range.
For me the past was only a pensioning off: it was another way of existing, a state of vacation and inaction; each event, when it had played its part, put itself politely into a box and became an honorary event: we have so much difficulty imagining nothingness.
Now I knew: things are entirely what they appear to be, and behind them there is nothing»
Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, 1948
Maisie Cousins
Cousins is a multidisciplinary artist working mainly with photography and collage. Her work explores themes of consumption, decay and sex. Maisie Cousins studied fine art photography at University of Brighton.
Credits
Photography: Maisie Cousins
Photography agent: Eoin O’Riordan
Production: Lizzy Knight@ConcreteRep
Set design: Nara Lee
Photography assistant: Hugo Veuillet
Production assistant: Louise Mongaï
Grooming Alexia Amzallag
Talent Deivy Valencia @SuccessModels
Thanks to Concrete Rep Agency
Editorial Team
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