INNOCENT E Y E S
“In a bed of cooling clover, there she lay. With lips like apples, on a crisp Fall day. Her skin was her canvas, for all colors display. However her self-image wasn’t where she held her greatest power. It was in her bright eyes of wonder as she daydreamed in a light slumber where she saw […]
THE T H I N I S H LINE
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” -Michael Jordan As I made my way up the third concrete hill of my hood, I repeated to myself, // you’re stronger than you know // For the entirety of my run, I compared my physical stamina to that of […]
FLIGHTLESS B I R D || 05.12.14
Soaring east– Three birds took flight chasing away the demons & shadows of your yesterday. –M.R. As the Summer sun trapped its heat in my apartment, I began to lose energy. Before I could melted into a relaxed state similar to that of a sauna, I decided to kill two birds (never a Mockingbird) with one […]
O B S E R V A T I O N S || 4:42 PM || 05.09.14
“Imagine if the life that you thought you sharedWasn’t really there–It was made up in your mind,Could be anyone, anywhere.“ —Dust Clears by Clean Bandit Looking out my bedroom window, my eyes became fixated on my neighbors kitchen window. There hung a string of dead fish that were strung like clothes on a clothes line. Living in Chinatown, […]
Pretty Thoughts
You looked at me with certainty.I couldn’t look away.Took your jacket off like,Like you were here to stay.Chasin’ your pretty thoughtsAnd your plastic love.There goes my mind,Let it go.You’re that lace trimmed danger,One day you’ll be the face of a stranger. -Pretty Thoughts, Alina Baraz We were dancing and I was feeding off the energy […]
Puttin’ on the Ritz
“She learned to survive and reinvent herself. She envisioned a better, elegant future for herself. Like me, she knew you had to have a vision.” -American Hustle The Ritz Carlton in Downtown Los Angeles, March 2014 Photographer/Director, Evan Woods Model/MUA/Stylist, Morgan Ryan “There is it,” he said. I focused my eyes in the direction of Evan’s […]
Teenage Wasteland
Golden Slumbers by The Beatles plays through my mind as beams of sunlight creep through the canvas sheathed windows . As I open the door to greet the sunshine that welcoming knocked, I’m instantly paralyzed by the intensity of the desert heat. I surrender to the warming embrace of the sun and lift my face in exhilaration towards the […]
