Andrew Wyeth

Really, I think one’s art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes.

I don’t paint these hills around Chadds Ford because they’re better than the hills somewhere else. It’s that I was born here, lived here — things have a meaning for me.

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future — the timelessness of the rocks and the hills — all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape — the loneliness of it — the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.

I think anything like that — which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone — people always feel is sad. Is it because we’ve lost the art of being alone?

When I die don't ever worry about me. I don't believe in being there for the funeral. Remember that. I'll be flying far away, off on a new tack. Something new that's twice as good.

source: WSJ, Google Images

Wonderland

As a huge Burton and Carroll fan, I am tremendously excited for the upcoming Alice film. I don't think I can wait until next March, though :[

source: USA Today, slashfilm

The Fallen Princesses

source: Fallen Princesses by Dina Goldstein

Life and Death

Edelgard Clavey, 67
First portrait:
December 5 2003
Edelgard was divorced in the early eighties, and lived on her own from then on; she had no children. From her early teens she was an active member of the Protestant church. She contracted cancer about a year before she died, and towards the end she was bed-bound. Once she was very ill she felt she was a burden to society and really wanted to die.

Second portrait:
January 4 2004
"Death is a test of one’s maturity. Everyone has got to get through it on their own. I want very much to die. I want to become part of that vast extraordinary light. But dying is hard work. Death is in control of the process, I cannot influence its course. All I can do is wait. I was given my life, I had to live it, and now I am giving it back.

German photographer Walter Schels was terrified of death, but felt compelled to take these extraordinary series of portraits of people before and on the day they died. His partner Beate Lakotta recorded the poignant and revealing interviews with the subjects in their final days.

source: Life Before Death, This is the End

mockmoon

Amazing hd time-lapse videos and music by mockmoon.

source: mockmoon, youtube videos

Ma chère Cate,

I hope your spirit is not yet weary, and that you will continue to strive forth. I promise you that it will get better. My heart is with yours.

Love,
M

Winter, Spring,

source: Oriontrail