Wednesday, 7 November 2012

It Was A Sunny Smile



"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."
F.Scott Fitzgerald

Thursday, 1 November 2012

To Contemplate is to Look at Shadows

"To contemplate is to look at Shadows"
Victor Hugo

Continuing the documentation of shadows cast by objects in the windows of the studio - here using a different camera phone that casts a blue hue to the shadows. Interestingly to note the phrase Shadow Image is the direct translation of the Chinese word for photography.





Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Venice: The Intimacy of Night #2

'Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.'
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice







Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Wanderings through Havana

"Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. It was often on trips that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary."
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky













Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Journeys: To seek others

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
Anaïs Nin




Monday, 3 September 2012

A Last Day of Summer

Part of film footage made of the sunset at Coney Island, Brooklyn NY on Labor Day - the symbolic end of summer in America.