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alley and abandonware <3 #transness #transsexual-liminality #liminal-space #photography
a cabinet housing for what is (probably) a telecommunications junction station. it is left open, and abandoned, worn by weather and some time. it may still work. to the bottom left of the image contains the MECHANAVEL logo. a pipe lined with a mess of wires terminates against the top middle of the image as the wires trail off and down against the path to the back of the dead-ended alley. large HVAC systems left decrepit and abandoned sit on the leftmost brick wall, cresting over the back-alley like a surreal brutalist crown. two awnings line the rightmost wall where thresholds sit indented against its bricks: doors without knobs indicate to the passersby their inaccessibility. against the back wall is another awning but whose rectangular box-shaped metal terminates halfway to just above the door, making the author wonder whether it was meant to house a small animal or something. oh well, she's just a lens-feathered creature :3 on the bottom left of the image contains the MECHANAVEL logo. the pinnacle of the alleyway: continued abandonware set against the buildings, wires strewn about against the steel door weathered in stains of rust. that same awning that has a little housing for a small animal rests above the door. the bottom left of the image has the mechanavel logo.
January 20, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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katina <3 #transsexual-liminality #photography #liminality
a blurry foreground of fencing rests against a corner of brick wall, what shadowed side (to the right) rests two tags written in a vertical list: "Katina." Below the tags are a pair of lips with a "+" symbol, the rest of what it might imply eclipsed by the end pipe of the fencing. to the bottom left of the image rests the MECHANAVEL logo an indented window featuring industrial shutters sits against a brick wall: the slits of metal pressure-washed to occlude the graffiti along their length darkened against the otherwise brighter sheets. on the first row, seven down sits a perfect tag: "Katina" to the bottom right of the image rests the MECHANAVEL logo a resolute and alone payphone console what receiver has been ripped off its riveted connector cord crests against a brick wall, with its connection severed and leant away from the building it rests. on the console, above the "COIN RELEASE" lever is handwritten words: "Katina's Phone" and below the "COINS ONLY" slot, underneath the coin release lever is written more: "est 14<illegible>" to the top right is a red placard with an array of signage indicating a stop hand, an ear with sound bars along its side, and a hand with a coin in its index finger and thumb. words accompany these symbols, aligned vertically into a numbered list: "1 STOP" "2 LISTEN FOR TONE" 3 DEPOSIT COINS" authors note: the sticker leftmost of the console dial-pad has text that is almost illegible, but there is a funny number at the base of the sticker, "1-877-HI-MOM-DAD/44-666-32" to the rightmost of the image features a leafy texture against the building, and below that is the MECHANAVEL logo.
January 20, 2026 at 4:10 AM
mechanavel.bsky.bark.wolp.chat
. . . the index of a door's soul from the perspective of a stranger with a camera down on the street.
below the building in frame lie two car decks with purpled lights and piping along their ceilings: two trees photobombing with tendrils of branches stretched against the corners. the rest of the building atop the car decks there are windows arrayed upward, four segmented into three separate lines. the dark ones opposite the bright ones are possible rooms of apartments, nothing seen in them because their darkness occludes viewership. the bright windows are balcony views from the position of the apartment doors. doors that have felt the hands of a probable many tenants. full lives lived behind their locks. the index of their souls from the perspective of a stranger with a camera down on the street. the bottom left features the MECHANAVEL logo.
January 15, 2026 at 1:46 PM
mechanavel.bsky.bark.wolp.chat
transness doesn't always involve your perception of us. conversely, transness doesn't always encapsulate how one trans person sees themselves. how do you see yourself? do you even look? #transrights
an exit sign to the top right of the image sits in a dutch-angle room, with (to the top left) strange lights arrayed vertically and whose width extends horizontally at slanted positions to illuminate a stairwell disappearing off-frame. the foreground of the image is a strange geometrical shape displayed with thin lines, above which (on the top-left) is labeled: "PSYCHOGRAPHIC ZEITGEISTIAL CORE" indicators of the contents of this core are strewn all about the structure with various words and names of trans people, and they read (in no particular order): "SATOMI NIHONGI" "CHRISTINA JORGENSON" "JANE SCHOENBRUN" "SYLVIA RIVERA" "MARSHA P. JOHNSON" "FEMTANYLAN RENAISSANCE" "COMPTON CAFETERIA RIOTS" "STONEWALL RIOTS" "TRANS-LIBERATAL ARTERIAL RIDGE" "ISABELLA MARKEL" "TRANS-ASTHETO-CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT" "TRANSSEXUAL!" Two panels are seated on either side of this structure, and the leftmost one reads: "EXIT SIGN CONTINUED: the EXIT SIGN insists upon its own necessity when in emergent situations; but not dissimilar to the transsexual, the rest of its life is subject to the margins of the sociocultural mind when not in abject need of use to its social context." the rightmost panel reads: "DISSEMINATING/DISSEMINATING/DISSEMINATING/DISSEMINATING/DISSENTING." "THERE IS NO social context for the transsexual to necessitate: we are necessary because people are necessary. trans people embody the concept of *the people* as much as anybody else . . ." To the rightmost of the image entire is the MECHANAVEL logo. an exit sign sits against the foregrounded focal length, cresting over the threshold of the interior of the edifice in view, against which sits a reflection from off the window that the photograph was taken from. the reflection features to the immediate bottom left of the exit sign a white truck, and behind the truck's reflection rests some idle seating and tables. above the exit sign there are reflections of windows that belong to the building opposite of this one. along the whole of the image to the right, a pipe with joints follows the vertical height of the picture. the top right of the picture sits the MECHANAVEL logo, with two segmented lines that both read out the words: "TRANSRETICLE |GUIDANCE SYSTEM" along what reticle it references has the word "TRANNY" defining the crosshair. below the reticle and the segmented lines sit the rest of the logo: the word "MECHA" drawn out in an evangelion-type-line structure, with the H hosting the same segmented lines as the lines above, but this time the words along each pylon reading: "EMERGENCY." below the word mecha, sitting over and in front says the word "NAVEL" in the same times new roman font as the rest of the text. on the bottom left of the image sits a reticle with the words "FUCK THE PATRIARCHY" in between one of the reticle circles, and below the reticle reads the text: "EXIT SIGNAGE: The exit sign is designed with the sole purpose of indicating where any given threshold out of a building is at any time during and before an emergency. this one is trans, and indicates the exit threshold of indecision." the image is the interior of a retail clothing store, with exit signs on either side of the sales floor, in the bottom left just before the end of the picture and to the right just before the right of the image terminates. there are white chandeliers arrayed along the building interior, along with mercurial studio lights what single row on the righthand side just before the next row over is (for some reason) on, while the rest remain off. also on the ceiling are ventilation pipes, whose grates the crosshairs lining the image have labeled (from left to right): "A.grate_detected" "sideA.grate_detected" "B.grate_detected" "AB.grate_detected" "bpipe-A.grate_detected" "bpipe-B.grate_detected" "bpipe-AB.grate_detected". below the ceiling to the bottom left of the image are CLEARANCE signs, and the foregrounded crosshairs sit indicated text with the same readout of the signs. the crosshairs closest to the exits read (from left to right) "A.trans_detected" and "B.trans_detected". to the top left is a panel of text containing the following: "trans people are not just a demonstration of the many ways a person can *be* a person, they are also in part a declaration against the notion of people's sexual and physical forms have put constraints on who they can be. conversely, we are just people, mutable and full of change, like the rest of you. i hope you look upon yourself, and see our kindred humanity in your reflection." below the panel reads: "fuck | you" centering the whole image is the MECHANAVEL logo.
January 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM