NOVEMBER MOODBOARD

Still a few days left

of November,

 secret & silent.

1., 6. & 7. unknown

2. Ralph Lauren A/W collection 1988 in The Sunday Times Magazine

3. Sandeea Cocina on LRF

4. Hans Blomquist's  In Detail

5. via

SEPTEMBER

Part of me is sad to depart

with August. 

But September,

what a lovely ring to the word.

The way it sounds

& all that it holds

- leaves soon turning

into a myriad of colours.

The soul turning a leaf, too,

on the brink of something new. 

Toast sure does early autumn beautifully. 

IN OTHER WORDS

A quiet Sunday. 

Savouring the fading beauty

of this grand old pair of rose ladies.

And wise words jotted down in my notebook. 

And some more wise words

from Sally Mann's autobiography Hold Still: 

"There is nothing better

than the thrill of holding a great negative,

wet with fixer,

up to the light.

And, here's the important thing:

it doesn't even have to be a great negative.

You get the same thrill with any negative;

with art, as someone once said,

most of what you have to do

is show up. 

The hardest part is setting the camera to the tripod,

or making the decision to bring the camera out of the car,

or just raising the camera to your face,

believing, by those actions,

that whatever you find before you,

whatever you find there, 

is going to be good.

And, when you get whatever you get,

even if it's a fluky product

of that slipping-glimpser vision that de Kooning celebrated,

you have made something. 

Maybe you've made something mediocre

- there's plenty of that in any artist's cabinets

- but something mediocre is better than nothing,

and often the near-misses, as I call them,

are the beckoning hands 

that bring you to perfection

just around the blind corner."

Wishing you an inspired Sunday.

x

MIDSUMMER WISH

Popping by to wish you 

a very lovely Midsummer time. 

Onnellista juhannusta kaikille! 

x

MAY DAY

"My heart wants roots,

my mind wants wings."

Happy 1st of May!

x