AFM: A Fucking Magazine

“Before mass incarceration, the cell was a place entered into voluntarily. Desire sent you there,” writes @jo__livingstone.

Reflecting at the @metcloisters, Livingstone takes us through a series of medieval enclosures: from the cell to the cloister and finally, to the body.

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Master Heinrich of Constance (German, active in Constance, ca. 1300). The Visitation, ca. 1310–20. Walnut, paint, gilding, rock-crystal cabochons inset in gilt-silver mounts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Illustration by @ramaduwaji