what we consume and how it shapes us

by Cecily Brown

I learned what it means to be a woman from perfume ads in Vogue and Madame Bovary. I watched children’s TV shows until I was a teenager—animated morality tales with rhyming songs and cute animals—but I read Henry Miller and Doris Lessing around the same time and understood none (zero!!) of what they wrote until a decade later. I collected…