In the winter of 2019-20 I drew these illustrations for the novel The Eye by George Bataille. “In a series of increasingly outrageous excesses, the young narrator searches for the meaning of sexuality and finally finds it in the transgression itself.” Paul Claes. “Bataille is one of the most important writers of this century. Story of the Eye, Madame Edwarda broke the storyline to tell what had never been told.” Michel Foucault
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For the first time I saw her dark-pinkish flesh, wet in the white milk.… she sank to the floor and uttered a litany of incoherent cries.… I caressed my girlfriend’s body and let the other eggs slide over her, …She sprayed the calm face, it seemed amazing that it didn’t close its eyes.The cry of defeat from the arena coincided with Simone’s orgasm.… I saw in the hairy vulva of Simone the pale blue eye of Marcelle, who looked at me and wept tears of urine.… in which I became a new character every day to rape a new Simone, …
Inez Michiels 