Shi*'s photos

Light.

Live from the Heartbreak Hotel. As JPS said: 'La vie c'est vachemente dur' soft hearts in hard places ... death, eroticism and psyche ... Four months into separation ... good days and bad days ... all the old inner demons have to be fought again ... it's lonely, it's draining, it's loveless ... things WILL get better ... 'self esteem and bottle mark fight for lowest place' The inner beauty holds fast ... a last bastion, 'the room without doors' POSTSCRIPT 2007: O course .... this was all well over a year ago ...

“Sitting’snotgonnadoit, thinking’snotgonnadoit.” “So what do I have to do?” “Dance,” said the Sheep Man. “Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays. Yougottadance. Don’teventhinkwhy. Starttothink, yourfeetstop.Yourfeetstop, wegetstuck. Wegetstuck, your’estuck.Sodon’tpayanymind, nomatterhowdumb. Yougottakeepthestep. Yougottalimberup. Yougottaloosenwhatyoubolteddown. Yougottauseallyougot. Weknowyou’retired, tiredandscared. Happenstoeveryone, ok? Justdon’tletyourfeetstop.” - Haruki Murakami, ‘Dance Dance Dance’

... a state of mind ...

Tiger Leaping Gorge ... improbable greetings!

One of those 'stop the car and shoot' shots. Outer Hebrides.

Texts ... fetish objects of desire ... Barthes Postscript: This one proves to be as attractive here as it was originally on the other place ... go figure. It is layers of correspondence and artwork of mine from the early eighties. Comments on my MA thesis on developmental environmental perception from a professor of divinity (curiously), a poem gift from a guy who is now a successful novelist and poet and one of my first attempts to signify feelings bubbling up. Hey ho.

nature's stained glass

'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen.' - Keats