Come and stay with me for a bit.
Come be with me
![A figure sits on the wooden floor of a mostly white room. The figure appears to have too many legs- about 5 or 6. The figure looks down solemnly at an empty hand.](https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/assets/legs-1000x1000.jpeg)
![A figure sits on a toilet of a blue and white-tiled bathroom. Another figure, who looks similar to the first, stands nude in the shower to the left of the toilet with their back towards the camera.](https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/assets/3-UNTITLED-digital-photograph-2020-1000x667.jpg)
![Figures of the same character in dramatic makeup chaotically confer around a main figure in a reclined position on the floor wearing a black bra and red shorts.. Their expressions are all unique.](https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/assets/6-RECLINING-NUDE_SPIRALING-digital-photograph-2020-1000x667.jpg)
![Multiple of the same figure in different stages of disrobing in a lush green yard before an old house. Their face is not shown.](https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/assets/1-I-LAYED-DOWN-AND-LET-YOU-TAKE-IT-digital-photograph-2020-1000x671.jpg)
![Black and white, grainy image of a figure's torso with their arms outstretched to either side. The figure's chest is obscured by drawings of flowers and Perian/Farsi text.](https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/assets/4-STILL-LIFE-FLOWERS-WITH-VASEGOLEH-BEE-GOLDOON-NEMISHEH-ink-charcoal-2021-1000x596.jpg)
![Multiple of the same nude figure in different positions fill the composition. No face is shown. Three prayer candles appear above a shelf at the very top of the image.](https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/assets/2-NEED-TO-PRAY-LOST-MY-CANDLES-digital-photograph-2020--667x1000.jpg)
Sometimes I look at myself and see a spider. Sometimes that’s how it feels when I stare at myself naked in a foggy mirror after a shower. It feels silent, still. But there are monsters in my mind twirling and screaming. I walk straight past the mirror sometimes. Some days I like to avoid my face. Those days, it’s like looking at a flower in a vase. It isn’t me or mine, and I am looking from afar. Either way. Me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me goes on for forever and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and me and