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Keep it yours

“It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.”

– Martha Graham

🐝 I spy a busy bee at the light-box making honey – Jo working on the next picture book to go alongside Fox and The Rare Monkey books.

Shot on 35mm Ilford Delta Pro 400 with Nikon FE + AIS lens (50mm?), processed with Foma chemistry, scanned with Canon 6D and Nikon 105mm f2.8 ais lens on a PN11 extension tube; post-processing with Darktable on Ubuntu Linux. 

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To wake at dawn with a winged heart


Video: Unconditional 💛 – Mr Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) and his son, Elio (Timothee Chalamet) in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name.

“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.”

The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

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Risky Routes

Bit of a break from my socials – my agent deciding to close books set off a little introspection as I took a moment to consider the path ahead. Think I’ll stay on these risky routes; keep following my instincts. Looking for an agent who’s good with that.

Onwards and upwards 🪷

Video above: Terence Trent D’Arby follows his creative instinct
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…as it looks to you

Water Lillies (Claude Monet, 1919)

“When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact colour and shape.”

Claude Monet