🌷🔑Schoolgirl Romance🌷🔑
Romance novels marked for exploitative tropes and locked in a painted cabinet. After the secured Staff Reading cabinet in my high school library.
The most mediocre libertarian has dreamed of oriental princesses; every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet, 2025
59 x 55 x 16 cm
Metal, wood, glass, romance novels, Wenzhou paper, acrylic paint
LORE
Rare were periods, at my all-girls secondary school, when my class was not preparing for an exam. In such a moment of adolescent boredom I staged a heist of a locked library cabinet. Intended only for our all-female staff, the pinewood and glass box contained recent bestsellers and explicit romance novels.
Using a large paperclip to pick the cabinet‘s flimsy lock, I extracted a maximum of 7 novels at a time, fanning out the remaining books so as not to leave noticeable gaps. A system developed whereby I speed-read, marked any explicit sex scenes with a dog-ear, and distributed these marked novels to a select few friends.
Indicating erotic pages ensured a rapid return of the books to myself; a swift turnover was necessary as I was impatient to read the entire cabinet, and had to return anything 'stolen' in order to make progress. One classmate – an outsider who was frequently bullied by the rest of the class, including myself – got to know of the operation that I was running. This was its undoing.
