Zack Seckler

I'm still trying to figure out what moves me about these aerial photos of Botswana. I'll be coming back to this one soon. Thanks Zack Scckler!

Reflections

Cambridge, MA

To the mountains!

Snowy Pines

Timmy and Mr. Bill

Pheasants

Before winter completely escapes us on the east coast (and I'm not trying to hold on to it by any means), here are some of my favorite moments of winter 2013/2014. All of these photos, aside from Cambridge, were taken in either Wisconsin or outside of Seattle. Check out more on instagram! 

Childhood Photos

 Wengenn in wonderland

My daughter Kanna

My favorite pictures of my siblings and I are the ones of us being silly or crying, mostly because they seem to be honest and natural, or posed in the ways we wanted to pose. I wish we captured the imagination of our childhood in photo memories like these two artists who engage creatively with their children. One draws inspiration from her sleepy baby, and the other by letting his kid get weird on a road. 

Fantasy Dress

Just dreaming out loud. Found these Lauren de Zagazan dresses at Missmoss a while ago. 

Farmer's Market inspiration

The summer youth program that I run is over and now I'm just wandering around the gardens by my lonesome to harvest what's left for the mobile markets on Saturdays. Concord grapes, yard long noodle beans, and potatoes are on the harvest lists these days. I'm also gearing up for some winter garden planning by attempting to follow a crop rotation while learning the Latin vegetable family names.

Winter

For a farmer, winter is the resting period. This winter, while resting, I'd like to cultivate the kind of calm I get from looking at these images. 

Pre-Revolution Russia

Russia in color, a century ago...

Ryan McGinley

Walter Niedermayr

Light

The first photo is a still shot from a film called 'Heaven'. I saw it a few months ago and when I try to think of something beautiful, the last scene of this movie pops up in my mind. It's one of those scenes that leaves your body vibrating for hours afterwards. I don't remember which website the second photo came from but I'll give credit when I figure it out. When I think about a live/work space, the plants and windows and cushion look pretty ideal.

Looking from afar

Everything's Art

Mangroves By Estelle

September

Johan + Francoise

Miss Moss

Where the lovely things are

Summer weather left over night. I already miss wearing shorts and eating coconut popsicles. On the bright side, I did have my first mulled cider craving of the season. I worked too much all summer and I'm still working too much. Hopefully things will ripen up again when my travel itch gets scratched this spring.

Juliane Eirich

Been digging her photos lately. And my sweet sister just bought me this camera which I'm excited about. Haven't had a polaroid in years! Now all I need is film....

In a strange room

more from the black book

"He has always had a dread of crossing borders, he doesn't like to leave what's known and safe for the blank space beyond in which anything can happen. Everything at times of transition takes on a symbolic weight, and power. But this too is why he travels. The world you're moving through flows into another one inside, nothing stays divided anymore, this stands for that, weather for mood, landscape for feeling, for every object there is a corresponding inner gesture, everything turns into metaphor. The border is a line on a map, but also drawn inside himself somewhere." -In a Strange Room, Damon Galgut

In a Strange Room is one of the most potent and emotionally fraught books I've ever read. After I finished I considered burning it because the stories left a dull dreadful loneliness in my mind. It's always funny to me how a certain order of words can evoke emotions that I've only ever felt while alone in the world, or never felt before at all. When this happens, when we are filled with the emotional details of a life we've never lived, we can all thank the mirroring part of our brains which allows reading to be a transference of experience.

Woods

The Black Book

Josef Albers

Color studies, a leaf study, and making the mundane magical.