Dark times

The more perfect you try to be, the more things about yourself you need to suppress. Things you don't accept, things that do not match the image of yourself you have created. But just because you hide them doesn't mean they're gone.

Clara Lieu, lithographic crayon on Dura-Lar. This drawing is from "Wading", a project that presents the most severe form of isolation as loneliness that is experienced when physically surrounded by other people. The presence of others is what can intensify the experience of loneliness for an individual. I visually portray loneliness as the experience of feeling unseen and unknown within a group.

The present pluralistic climate that prevails in American culture has disastrous implications. To suggest that all religions, all ideologies, all philosophies, and all beliefs are of equal validity, and ought to be tolerated as such, is to generate social anarchy and the destabilization of society that can end only in national suicide. Unless a single... Read More

I found this quote not too long ago and while times aren't that dark today I know there is someone somewhere who could use a push, a reminder, to keep chugging along. Whenever I read this, on a dark day or a brighter one, I am reminded about why I love it so much. It is short and simple and to the point. You have made it, you have made it through hard things and while you will face them again, you also know that you have the strength to make it through. You have done it before! So hold tight…

It’s time for another installment of The Creepiest Photo Album…I have trolled the net for my latest batch of awesome and eerie photography. Some you may recognize and some you may not, some is vintage photography and some is modern, some is reality and some is fantasy. Either way, it’s an inspiring collection of weird […]