“a way of thinking about beauty that’s less about harmony or perfection and more about provocation, strangeness and visual interruption as a means of disrupting the homogenisation of appearance that we are currently experiencing.”

Yet rather than actually living through the moments that make us dirty, we’re simulating them – perhaps because we’re too burnt out, broke, anxious or absorbed in online life. In a sense, we’ve aestheticised experience because we’re starved of it.