New Beginnings..

Happy 22 to me.
this birthday was so beautiful. filled with family and friends, old and new.


This past week was filled with so any metaphors for the journey I am currently on. Spontaneous adventures, fresh ideas, new creations. It all ended so perfectly as I toasted with a total stranger and a best friend to our "new beginnings" and strolled the streets of Philly with my two best girls. Moments like these are so rare and we have learned to cherish every last drop of them. As much as we reminisce about being 17 again, we know that those days will only get farther away, and it is our job to lead ourselves on the paths we want and deserve to be on. I am so proud of the women we have become, and the great friends we remain, our bond goes deeper.. it travels through life and death, to the moon and back.

Shutter Island - at any moment you could pause the screen and have a beautiful photograph. that, that is something that is so underachieved by filmmakers I feel. Mr. Scorsese got is so so right. The aesthetics of this film were out of control. There is one scene in particular that I will be searching and searching for prints of. The shocking reds and yellows, the ashes in the air, the embrace and the contrasting walls. I could have stared at it for hours. It is so true that horrible things have their own kind of beauty. Of course the story that was told was shocking and provoking in its twists and turns, but I couldn't help but focus on the visual journey I was brought on. Strange that I watched Alice in Wonderland as well this week, but wasn't compelled by it like I "should" have been. I love being surprised by things...people...myself.

so much photography, painting, art on the way. so excited for it.