women and parrots IV

Tantalisingly, other sections of the painting may still be at large, including one in which the model’s hand holds a fluttering parakeet, a symbol of eroticism.

30 January 1927

But I also came across a real parrot, a white macaw: on Miasnitskaia, sitting on a basket containing linen goods a woman was selling to passers-by.


Judith Butler on Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History

women / parrots // 1866

talk with the animals