Life as we know it...

Photographs by Kimberley Cartmell.

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Silence is never merely the cessation of words … Rather it is the pause that holds together-indeed, it makes sense of all the words, both spoken and unspoken. Silence is the glue that connects our attitudes and our actions. Silence is the fullness, not emptiness; it is not absence, but the awareness of a presence…
John Chryssavgis
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But no matter how much the mess and distortion make you want to despair, you can’t abandon the work cause you’re chained to the bloody thing, it’s absolutely woven into your soul and you know you can never rest until you’ve brought truth out of all the distortion and beauty out of all the mess - but it’s agony, agony, agony - while simultaneously being the most wonderful and rewarding experience in the world - and that’s the creative process so few people understand.
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I think that’s what a relationship is…not figuring someone out, putting them in a box and calling that a friendship. But it’s a dance really, where you’re continually trying to figure somebody out and they’re continuing to learn who you are…
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Life is short and fevered rehearsal for a concert which we cannot stay to give…
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You wake up, You wake up, another day, you wake up, you wake up, traffic still moving at the same speed, our eyes looking at the same speed, our minds thinking at the same speed, I wanna see movement, I wanna see change. I wanna wake up for real. I wanna wake up. I wanna wake up. We were meant to live.