Back around the time I enrolled in Art School, I noticed a certain shift in the aesthetics of the internet, especially on platforms like Myspace and Tumblr. There seemed to be a renewed love for a certain type of images that were uncanny and queer, in the broad sense of such words. More and more, people my age on the internet were obsessing over images that came from or reminded of the 80s and 90s because of their color palette or texture, or perhaps had a certain makeshift quality or a collection of apparently contradictory or unexpected elements. One of the first such images which captured my attention depicted a small woman wearing a flimsy sheer pink dress that let her nipples be seen, seated atop a horse which seemed made out of fiberglass or papier maché, as though riding it. This image had a soft focus fuzzy glimmer about it and was clearly staged in a photography studio. However, the clash between the earnest and innocent expression on the woman’s face, the evident cheap quality of the horse figure and the sexually suggestive styling, made me wonder who had thought of creating this image and whatever for. And it captivated me immediately. Later, I found out the woman portrayed is actually La Toya Jackson.