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There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, because the tunnel is full of light.
This winter no one expresses this anti-cliche notion better than the Japanese. Winter Illuminations at Nabana no Sato (a botanical garden) on the island of Nagashima in Kuwana.
Once again, it’s all about perspective.
What would life be without the commanding bird’s-eye view? I was looking for something completely irrelevant on my iPhone’s map App when I decided to change to Satellite view just to mix things up…
I’ve sat many times under the rhomboid structure to doodle on napkins (or plan how to change the world) while eating the greenest seaweed salad on Lincoln Road, but I had never realized how wonderful this piece of 1950’s nostalgia was. I always notice the floor, but never the ceiling.
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The beginning of the red painting…
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Don’t burn the day away (Pig).
“ Until helps arrives, I’m deputizing the little guy, the skinny one, and the boy with the patch on his eye to come with me in the station wagon.”
“ The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Extract from my last interview:
Suuuch a true story! (including being interviewed). We found ourselves driving through Leavenworth, Kansas, and bumping into this massive United States Penitentiary by chance one sunny afternoon (it’s a lie. I included it as a MUST SEE in our pseudo-itinerary. It’s so massive, so intimidating, so cold we HAD to see it up close). That’s why we drove into the “Visitor’s parking”, and completely ignoring that we couldn’t be there decided to take a little tour in our car asking a really nice guard if they had a little “museum” that would tell us the story of how it came to be.
Next best thing was to make myself look eerie and weird in every house around the block. And so we did.
