lip sync...

 do you know how often i speak to you when you are not here?

how often i mouth words and phrases to the space you should be filling?

tyler knott gregson

source: miloslav stibor- etude de nu 1980

let your beauty manifest itself

without talking and calculation.

you are silent. it says for you: i am.

and comes in meaning thousandfold,

comes at long last over everyone.

rainer maria  rilke, initial (the book of images; edward snow)

source: paolo roversi- id magazine: waiting for peter, july 1999, via +

painted eyes

elegant, you were born at night

sewn by soft hands

oh the softest hands

born in solitude

born of painted eyes

painted eyes

that always looked to the sky

oh those eyes

oh those eyes

they saw forever

♪

via + 

 source: lucie de la falaise by paolo roversi

focus...

focus that is connected to the heart is the most powerful force. 
we create in the heart, the emotional center,
because desire is the engine and spark of creativity.
dr. tully

source: via +

is...

pain is inevitable. suffering is optional.
haruki murakamsource: alexander festbaum, via +

tread softly

tread softly, for you tread on my dreams.

w.b. yeats

source: mark borthwick | vanessa bruno ss 2009 campaign, via +

brimming...

she felt as if she was brimming,

always producing and hoarding more love inside her.

but there was no release.

jonathan safran froer, everything is illuminated

source: egon schiele, via +

i...

i see only you

and the light hanging between your fingers and mine.

tyler knott gregson
source: tilda swinton by tim walker for w magazine august 2011, via +

time....

not enough

in the day


 clocklink

bedside tables

what's next to your bed?

i found this little chair on the site on the road. i scraped most of the paint of it, i think i will leave as it is... it's cluttered with books, magazines (many more are spread out on the floor), children drawings and tea cups. 

image by mady dooijes

strenght..

being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,

 while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

lao tzu
source: power of witches| nick night/rei kawakubo, 2004, via +

cy twombly

cy twombly| sadly passed away last week

 an artist i have admired for a long time.... 

graffiti is linear and it’s done with a pencil, and it’s like writing on walls. but in my paintings it’s more lyrical. 

- cy twombly

my house

..... around the living room

things my wonderful mamma gave me| pottery of my grandfather

it's her birthday today, miss and love you so much| wishing i could be there xxx
images by mady dooijes 

a sign

crying does not indicate that you are weak.

since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

charlotte bronte, jane eyre

source: jeremy dufour, via +

wishes....

curious wishes

feathered the air

ann demeulemeester, via blue sky butterfly studio

regard the moon...

regard the moon, 

la lune ne garde aucune rancune, 

she winks a feeble eye, 

she smiles into corners. 

she smooths the hair of the grass. 

the moon has lost her memory. 

a washed-out smallpox cracks her face, 

her hand twists a paper rose, 

that smells of dust and eau de Cologne, 

she is alone 

with all the old nocturnal smells 

that cross and cross across her brain"

t.s. eliot, from rhapsody on a windy night

source: sarah moon, via callie grayson

in the depth of the winter...

in the depth of winter, i finally learned that within me 
there lay an invincible summer.
albert camus
source: dolce & gabbana, another ss 2008, photographer chad pitman, via +

a true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

bernard meltzer
source: alice gibb, comme des garcons ss 2010 ready to wear, via +

nothing...

nothing that is can pause or stay;

the moon will wax, the moon will wane,

the mist and cloud will turn to rain,

the rain to mist and cloud again,

tomorrow be today.

henry wadsworth longfellow
source:'tinker belle's forest, voque nippon march 2002 by koto bofolo, paper mode, via +

 paolo roversi- i adore, my favourite photographer all times

source: paolo roversi for voque italia september 1997, 

the fashion spot, via +

a place in the heart

there is a place in the heart that 

will never be filled 

and

we will wait 

and 

wait

in that space.

charles bukowsk

source: paolo roversi for voque italia sept. 1997 the fashion spot, via +

the beauty of truth

the beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

paulo coehlo

source: paolo roversi for ann demeulemeester ss 1999, via +

but there’s a story behind everything. 
how a picture got on a wall. how a scar got on your face. sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking.

mitch albom

source: manchester metropolitan university graduation show 2011, via sea angels