/ inspiration to die for

/ one of my 'malum' videos will be screening in north adams mass tonight, thanks to my friend matt lax for including me in the show! x

/ 'thats mona' jewelry fashion shoot, 12 august 2012 breezy point brooklyn

/ recent inspirations

'if i take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, i will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will i be free to become myself.'


/ martin heidegger, german philosopher 1889-1976

/ astro-nocturne, self-portrait

/ pina bausch, sacrifice

/ from a new group of images i'm working on loosely titled 'for the divine' 2011-present

'art is not what you see, art is what you make others see.'

/ edgar degas, french artist 1834-1917 

/ from paradise lost, nick knight featuring gemma ward published in i-D magazine october 2005

'time is the longest distance between two places.'

/ tennessee williams, the glass menagerie 1944

/ photograph of me by my friend jordan tiberio, september 2011 brooklyn ny

/ work featured on the homepage of  looks like good design today!

'meaning and morality of one's life come from within oneself. healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as possible. religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. the good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.'


/ friedrich nietzsche

/ justin dillard, writer, sunday 22 july 2012 park slope ny

/ my brother evan in our backyard, june 2012 webster ny

i have learned that you learn more about a person's character in the days following the '..i'm sorry, i don't love you' than you may have ever learned about them under other circumstances..

"..because i know that time is always time

and place is always and only place

and what is actual is actual only for one time

and only for one place

i rejoice that things are as they are and

i renounce the blessed face

and renounce the voice

because i cannot hope to turn again

consequently i rejoice, having to construct something

upon which to rejoice.."

/ from ash wednesday by ts eliot 1930

/ gabrielle in my room, fall 2011 brooklyn ny

'this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou
lovest best.
night, sleep, and the stars.'


/ 'a clear midnight' by walt whitman

/ my brother evan at the hotel window, 18 february 2011 brooklyn ny

you are what you love not what loves you
what an ambivalent statement

/ self, bed june 16 brooklyn ny

'what we experience in dreams -- assuming that we experience it often -- belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.'


/ friedrich nietzsche, from beyond good and evil

/ church underground, 28 may 2012 brooklyn ny

..and then someone whispered 'every night i die in your arms, every morning i am reborn'

/ jasper elings, untitledlandscapes.jpg

'the most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing.
   what do we long for when we see beauty? to be beautiful. we think much happiness must be connected with it. but that is an error.'


/ excerpt from 'human, all too human' by friedrich nietzsche, #149 'the slow arrow of beauty'

/ my beautiful sister lauren, webster ny 03 june 2012

'we were together. i forget the rest.'


/ walt whitman

/ the hour of the wolf, ingmar bergman 1968