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4. What is virtual is sacred. Questions rise, questions of erotic intent, waved and weaved by 
voyeuristic pleasure: “Who’s the prettiest girl in Town?” it whispers, “in that distant village? Who’s the 
dragon sitting on her bed?” Then scenarios. And scenarios.  
5. “What a bliss, to get stuck in that backwater.” 
6. The reality effect – in the strong sense of the term – pierces through. It sticks out, penetrates the 
bowels of the car. Then, in a tense intimacy of dark rooms, it percolates. A hot surprise, this thing. 
Bearing, sometimes, the life of the gaze, of a look returned. 

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2024, Dobruja
photograph, print