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Lisa Eldridge applying eye makeup to Frida Gustavsson

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simone rocha fall 2021

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Kimber Berry (American, b. 1970)

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"Dead people receive more flowers than living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude." - Anne Frank

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Interviewer: You have said that writing is a hostile act; I have always wanted to ask you why.

Joan Didion: It’s hostile in that you’re trying to make somebody see something the way you see it, trying to impose your idea, your picture. It’s hostile to try to wrench around someone else’s mind that way. Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else’s dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. 

Interviewer: Are you conscious of the reader as you write? Do you write listening to the reader listening to you?

Joan Didion: Obviously I listen to a reader, but the only reader I hear is me. I am always writing to myself. So very possibly I’m committing an aggressive and hostile act toward myself. 

Paris Review, “The Art of Fiction No. 71″ (1978)

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by Kate Jarvik Birch @ Instagram

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Driving on empty roads at night.

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Ergita Sela

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Nusi Quero

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Yumi Nu by Peter Ash Lee for Teen Vogue Magazine May 2022

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December, Cliffs of Moher

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Photo by ivivalamolly on Flickr.