onania

There’s a simul­ta­ne­ous hor­ror and fas­ci­na­tion that goes along with view­ing Jan Man­ski’s work, specif­i­cal­ly his series titled Ona­nia. In it, ten­ta­cles grow out of faces, and fleshy, putrid-look­ing skin is jux­ta­posed with a pow­dery pink, like the shade that Mary…