What Remains Beautiful

Obsession: 001

Eros understood that desire becomes most dangerous when treated seriously. Some months ago, we decided to take that proposition seriously.

We wanted to begin where Eros left off and discover what remains when its appetite is dragged through the present. We named that result Choke.

It has now been sent to the printers.

Inside are pleasure and punishment, beauty and obscenity, flesh and commerce, appetite and restraint, the machinery built around desire and the shame manufactured to keep it profitable.

It is not a facsimile, a revival, or an embalmed exercise in mid-century elegance. The artists and writers have done their part. The pages have been assembled. The files have left our hands.

What began as an idea is becoming the thing we intended it to be from the beginning: a physical object. Substantial, deliberate, and made to be held.

Choke is now in production.

What comes after it can wait.

For now, we can suffer with what we made.