Patterns: running away

03Mar12

Another pattern emerges. The stuff that seems to make me happiest is all about movement, disappearing, vanishing, being isolated, unreachable. And I ran away from home. I’ve left several countries, changed nationalities twice. Yesterday I saw the documentary about the making of Alec Soth‘s Broken Manual, Somewhere to Disappear at the Sean Kelly Gallery. No surprise [...]

Filed under: Happiness, Photographers, photography, Travel   |  Closed
Tags: Alec Soth, Broken Manual, isolation, patterns, running away, solitude, Somewhere to Disappear

Patterns: mortality

18Jan12

I originally started this blog to find out if there were larger patterns to the things I love. The tags don’t lie: there is a very consistent theme to almost all of my posts, and it’s mortality. Oof. I hadn’t quite expected that. I think of myself as an optimistic, forward-looking person. And all I seem [...]

Filed under: Childhood, Mother, World War II   |  Closed
Tags: childhood, family, flight, grandparents, legacy, loss, mortality, my mother, patterns