Finally freeing this image from hard drive prison and sharing some writing I did about the Unconscious. Will give you a forehead kiss if you read it. šļøLink to full thing in bio šļø
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There is a secret place. A radiant sanctuary. As real as your own kitchen. More real than that. Constructed of the purest elements. Overflowing with the ten thousand beautiful things. Worlds within worlds. Forests, rivers. Velvet coverlets thrown over featherbeds, fountains bubbling beneath a canopy of stars. Bountiful forests, universal libraries. A wine cellar offering an intoxication so sweet you will never be sober again. A clarity so complete you will never again forget. This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. - St. Teresa of Avila
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What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?
- Frida Kahlo
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I took these photos and wrote this little poem during my last visit home. Here I went through yet another round of grappling with the shared truth many of us refuse to make direct eye contact with, that death will find us all. This promise has haunted me as far back as my memory goes, lingering at the edge of my awareness even on the brightest and most blessed days. It often feels as though the latin phrase āmemento moriā is tattooed somewhere along the inner lining of my skin- āRemember you must dieā.
For so long, this extreme death consciousness seemed to be nothing but a burden, and sometimes it still feels that way. But in recent years Iāve welcomed the arrival of a presence more potent than terror when confronting mortality. Facing loss and illness in such an earth-crumbles-beneath-your-feet kind of way launched me into my own perfectly curated nightmare and then showed me what was beyond it, a light only perceptible to those whose worlds have been blanketed by the dark. Language fails to encapsulate this gift, but if I had to try Iād simply say ālove in its purest formā or āan embracing certainty that itās all okayā.
In my little human life, doing my little human things, I inevitably forget. I can easily fall back into despairing about someday no longer living a little human life and doing little human things. But I now try to guide myself back into connection with something much larger than it all. I read poetry and mythology and Jungian psychology. I drink in near death experience stories like theyāre a fine wine. I cradle my fear of death and rock myself into remembering the love that reminded me that actually, itās all okay.
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The temple bell stopsā but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers.
ā Basho
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Itās @realtime.traveller ās birthday today so lām finally sharing these pictures I took of my two favourite haters who are also my neighbours š¹
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Need to do some more in camera double exposures soon šø
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In the words of Ruth Langmore, āI donāt know shit about fuckā when it comes to astrology (the serious kind, not the hehe heres a fun meme about a Libra trying to make a decision kind). But from what Iāve heard the cosmos are pumping out some extra juicy energy right now, making the world feel like itās shifting and shaking around us. Itās a very fiery, Aries heavy time. I donāt know how much weight I place on all this, but when my anxiety is cranked the heck up (which has been) and my body is flaring (see previous parentheses) and the external world is burning (š„š„š„) it feels comforting to anchor myself within a larger story that swirls around our strands of individual life and weaves us into some far greater, cyclical existence.
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#motionblur #creativephotography #aries #photocinematic #experimentalphotography
I want to go back To the beginning.
We all do.
I think:
Hurt wonāt be there.
But Iām wrong.
Where the water
Bubbles up
At the spring:
Isnāt that a wound?
āGregory Orr
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