🌷🔑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
At some point in my schooling, possibly in a rare lull when my class was not preparing for an exam, I staged a heist of a locked library cabinet containing recent bestsellers & explicit romance novels.
Using a large paperclip to pick the cabinet‘s flimsy lock, I carefully extracted a maximum of 7 novels, fanning out the remaining books so as not to leave noticeable gaps. A system developed whereby I speed-read the books, marked the saucy bits with a dog-ear or pronounced spinal crease and distributed these marked novels to a select few friends. Having the erotic pages marked helped ensure a rapid return of the books and thus a swift turnover; 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.