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