imitation...

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

— Herman Melville 

Jenny Woods

Study me as much as you like...

Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.

Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.

— Rumi

Glamour France September 1993- LES DEMOISELLES DE LA HAUTE COUTURE by Mario Sorrenti

falling in love...

If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

— John Steinbeck on falling in love

no road is long with good company

Magazine: i-D Fall 2013

Models: Jacob Morton, Sam Rollinson

Photography: Richard Bush

Styling: Sarah Richardson

Give...

Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.

— Yasmin Mogahed

Wendy Bevan- Glencalvie 08 for 'Darjeeling'

Yes:….

Yes: I am a dreamer.

For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

— Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

Drew Jacoby by Robert Stivers

alone….

My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.

— Warsan Shire

Irina Kravchenko in AnOther Magazine S/S13 | ph. Julia Hetta

eventually...

Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.

— Robert Brault

This print is from Man Ray’s portfolio ’Electro-magie’, and is a limited edition etching from Paris, dated 1976

we see what we want...

Stare at the dark too long and you will eventually see what isn’t there.

— Cameron Jace - Snow White Sorrow

manolescent

clarity...

I'm filled with a desire for clarity and meaning within a world and condition that offers neither.
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
Wastes (studies), poured and blown correction fluid on magazine pages

I hide myself within my flower….

I hide myself within a flower,

That wearing on your breast,

You, unsuspecting, wear me too-

And angels know the rest.

I hide myself within my flower,

That, fading from your vase,

You unsuspecting, feel for me

Almost a loneliness.

-Emily Dickinson

At De Kas restaurant, on-site greenhouses and an herb garden are a ready source for herbs and edible flowers

I will...

I will be the cause

of your longest deepest breath,

your relieving sigh.

— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

Jean-François Lepage, 1998

If you were coming in fall….

If you were coming in the fall,  

I ’d brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.

If only centuries delayed,
I'd count them on my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen's land.

If certain, when life was out,
That yours and mine should be,
I'd toss it yonder like a rind,
And taste eternity. 

But, but now, all ignorant of the length
Of time's uncertain wing,
It goads me, like a goblin bee,
That will not state its sting.
-Emily Dickinson
'Rodarte' by Nan Goldin for Grey F/W 2012

happy|sad...

When she is happy, she can’t stop talking, when she is sad she doesn’t say a word.

— Ann Brashares

Jil Sander Spring 1996 by Craig McDean
William Bouguereau’s Êtude Tete de Jeune Fille, 1898

unknown original source

In my secret life….

I saw you this morning, 

you were moving so fast. 

Can’t seem to loosen my grip

On the past.

And I miss you so much,

there’s no one in sight.

And we’re still making love

In my secret life.

I smile when I am angry,

I cheat and I lie,

I do what I have to do

to get by,

In my secret life.” 

― Leonard Cohen

E MOTION by Josefin Arestav

Hidden language...

 Dance is the hidden language of the soul."

-Martha Graham

Martha Graham, Lamination by Barbara Morgan, 1935

 I have seen a performance by The Martha Graham Dance Company many years ago in Paris and it was incredible captivating and beautiful.

She was a modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on the modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture. My uncle who was a modern dancer and choreographer himself has danced with and was influenced by her.

Love is not blind...

Love is not blind - It sees more and not less,
but because it sees more it it willing to see less.
-Will Moss

Lillian Bassman – Margie Cato, Junior Bazaar, 1950

new things...

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
-Emily Dickinson
working on some new|old things

I believe...

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats and I don’t intend to waste any of mine…

— Neil Armstrong

Vlada Roslyakova photographed by Luciana Val and Franco Musso for Vogue Russia April 2006.

instinct….

Your first

instinct 

is usually right.

Lukasz Wierzbowski 

recently….

"You create your own universe as you go along.” 

― Winston Churchill

my instagram images

When...

When we stop struggling, 

we float.

-Mark Nepo

ryan mcginley

never let go...

There are some feelings that fill you up, that dig their roots into your skin and never let go.

They swell and blow you over like wind and waves.

unknown source

& other stories

Stranger Music...

And I’ll dance with you in Vienna,

I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise.

The hyacinth wild on my shoulder

my mouth on the dew of your thighs.

And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook,

with the photographs there and the moss.

And I’ll yield to the flood of your beauty,

my cheap violin and my cross.” 

― Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
The New York Times T Style Design Spring 2013 : Julianne Moore by Inez & Vinoodh

I can feel you laugh...

Noses to noses

and foreheads against foreheads,

I can feel you laugh.

— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

Alek Wek

in the end...

 

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

― Ernest Hemingway

Lovisa Ingman photographed by Juliana Harkki for Samuji Spring—Summer 2011

Dance me to the end of love….

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin 

Dance me through the panic ‘til I’m gathered safely in 

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove 

Dance me to the end of love"

― Leonard Cohen

Devon Aoki photographed by Vincent Peter for Jalouse #11 1998

this moment...

You’ll never untangle the circumstances that brought you to this moment.

-Leonard Cohen

E MOTION by Josefin Arestav

Ah come with me...

You are tired,

(I think)

Of the always puzzle of living and doing;

And so am I.

Come with me, then,

And we'll leave it far and far away--

(Only you and I, understand)

You have played,

(I think)

And broke the toys you were fondest of,

And we are a little tired now;

Tired of things that break, and-

Just tired.

So am I.

But I come with a dream in my eyes tonight,

And I knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart-

Open to me!

For I will show you the places Nobody knows,

And, if you like,

The perfect places of sleep.

Ah, come with me!

I’ll blow you that wonderful bubble, the moon,

That floats forever and a day;

I’ll sing you the jacinth song

Of the probable stars;

I will attempt the unstartled steppes of dream,

Until I find the Only Flower,

Which shall keep (I think) your little heart

While the moon comes out of the sea.”

-E. E. Cummings

Parko Calendar, Dominique Issermann, Japan 1985

scarves...

I love these light weight woollen scarves.

Prints made in collaboration between artist Katerina Jebb and Acne Studios.