Medisa

[zellerzone]

Needless to say, the archetype of the return look is the stare of Medusa with her multiple heads and writhing limbs. Medusa is the untuned formlessness, denied but ready to repay the insult. She is a killer, but she seeks human complicity in our death, a yes or half yes that makes it ambiguous as to whether she or the subjects who look are to blame for their ceasing. When her gaze meets our gaze, we petrify, we cease to be subjects who look; we are objects without becoming or change, without a future of satisfaction or renovation.

-Cyril O’Regan