Your mercy will be remembered forever
Inspiration Board: photograph of my grandmother, vintage fashion, disposable film photos, pottery.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
for me.
Inspiration: By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.
Letterpress
Letterpress. I’m obsessed
Sweetheart, sweat the sweet peas.
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”
What I’ve been up to lately….more to come ;)
I want to be found faithful.
Dublin, Ireland 2011
“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.” - Martha Graham”
don’t jump the gun
1930’s Havana, Cuba
human, we are found
Abuela Aleida
we are birthed into struggle
Clockwise: Tios in Cuba, adolescent father in photobooth, grandfather in New York, Great Uncles in Cuba
OOOWEEEEEE!! Drowning Magnolia Project video number 002 is being worked on, get you’re dancing shoes on cuz’ it’s gonna get saucy!
YEEHAW!
The Drowning Magnolia Project
My first collaboration with an awesome friend/choreographer.
Find out more info at drowningmagnolia.tumblr.com
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prototype
“to love at all is to be vulnerable.
love anything, & your heart will certainly be wrung & possibly be broken.
if you want to make sure of keeping it intact,
you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal.
wrap it carefully round with hobbies & little luxuries;
avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
but in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change.
it will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
the alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.”
"He gives to his beloved sleep" Psalms 127:2
Maybe all she needed was a spoonful of humility