Photographs from my residency in Itoshima-shi, Fukuoka :
Ella Webb
"I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin"
Sparkling in the rain – the illuminated tunnel in Mie, Japan, with thousands of sakura-shaped bulbs | by godive2000
one of the best feelings is finally losing your attachment to somebody who isn’t good for you
I cannot express why I love Hozier so much but only that he evokes an emotion that makes me want to cry and fall deeply in love before dancing barefoot in fresh dewy grass and sodden dirt at peace
“But isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent?”
— Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse
“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.”
— Milan Kundera, Identity
“To encounter anything fully is to touch its absence.”
— Rosmarie Waldrop, from Letterbox
