Wild Keiki

our lost winter

2012-02-07T02:43:00.001-05:00

excerpts from "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats

thank you, my sweet Delilah, for being such a wonderful muse.

luck dragon

2012-01-26T10:21:00.002-05:00

photographs by Erica Shires

silence becomes you.

2012-01-18T17:20:00.003-05:00

glitter in their eyes

2012-01-12T15:13:00.001-05:00

photographs by Marie Zucker

if you leave

2012-01-05T11:40:00.002-05:00

photographs by Laurence Tarquin Von Thomas

pursuing magic.

2011-12-29T01:09:00.002-05:00

I looked up.

2011-12-16T10:54:00.003-05:00

ghost girls

2011-12-10T22:10:00.003-05:00

Hello, dear snow pixies!

I have been a dreadful blogger lately,

but only because I have been working on my new project,

GHOST GIRLS!

I'll still be updating Wild Keiki (as it's my New Year's Resolution).

I've missed you all terribly!

Tell me a story or two.

looking glass house

2011-11-06T11:42:00.004-05:00

top quote, tree drawing, and heart lyrics from "The Selves" by Sonja Ahlers

silver moon, hysteric moon

2011-10-10T00:10:00.003-04:00

photographs by Logan White

top quote from Lula Magazine

excerpt from "Hysteria" by T.S. Eliot

indian summer

2011-09-29T23:01:00.001-04:00

the loved one

2011-09-19T19:47:00.002-04:00

Well, my little wood nymphs, another fashion week has come and gone. But the surprises it brings are still coming! Last week I had the immense pleasure to interview the fairy-tale creature, Hannah Metz, of The Loved One! You may also know her as the curly haired beauty behind the amazing blog, Hannah and Landon. Please take a look at my interview below, or peek at it on the Z!NK website!

Thank you so much, Hannah!

Photos courtesy of Hannah and Landon and The Loved One.

P.S. For more info on Hannah and The Loved One, please visit thelovedone.net/and hannahandlandon.blogspot.com/

forgetmenot.

2011-09-11T20:12:00.004-04:00

my crystal visions

2011-09-01T10:22:00.003-04:00

the fairest of seasons

2011-08-15T00:59:00.002-04:00

opening passage of "The Pillow Book" by Sei Shonagon

sukie in the graveyard.

2011-07-29T11:13:00.002-04:00

"Sukie in the Graveyard" lyrics by Belle & Sebastian

photos by me and the magical Michele Brucculeri.

we used to do everything just for fun.

2011-07-09T21:17:00.002-04:00

photos by Jolijn Snijders for Baby, Baby, Baby Magazine

wild like children.

2011-06-20T18:40:00.002-04:00

the gemini girls

2011-06-07T02:28:00.002-04:00

picking petals off a daisy.

2011-05-06T19:30:00.003-04:00

photographs by Mariam Sitchinava

excerpt from "Throw Like A Girl" by Jean Thompson

what it sounds like when doves cry

2011-05-05T23:00:00.000-04:00

photographs by Misma Andrews

excerpt from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote

I once knew a beautiful bird.

2011-04-05T23:44:00.002-04:00

If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Both of you are great light borrowers.
Her O-mouth grieves at the world; yours is unaffected,

And your first gift is making stone out of everything.
I wake to a mausoleum; you are here,
Ticking your fingers on the marble table, looking for cigarettes,
Spiteful as a woman, but not so nervous,
And dying to say something unanswerable.

The moon, too, abuses her subjects,
But in the daytime she is ridiculous.
Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand,
Arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity,
White and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide.

No day is safe from news of you,
Walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.

"The Rival" by Sylvia Plath

photographs by Aëla Labbé

i wish i had a river i could skate away on.

2011-03-29T02:05:00.002-04:00

photographs by Mike Bailey Gates

excerpt from "The Sleepers" by Walt Whitman

if you can't sleep

2011-03-19T12:29:00.001-04:00

excerpt quoted from "The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism"

by Barbara J. Berg

photographs by Laura Makabresku

they'll chase you down

2011-03-09T12:35:00.003-05:00

(photographer's name will be added shortly!)

excerpt from "The Coming of the Fairies" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

boys will never know

2011-03-06T15:29:00.002-05:00

how beautiful it is to be a girl.

photographs by Clare Shilland

excerpt from poem by Sam Falls

this, that, and everything in between.

2011-02-25T00:29:00.002-05:00

excerpt from "Faeries" by Brian Froud and Alan Lee

photographs of Kirsten Dunst for Boy by Band of Outsiders

p.s. I'll be showing a pretty picture in a group show opening at Capricious tonight,

February twenty-fifth. If you happen to find yourself wandering around Williamsburg, please wander in my direction, if only for a moment.

the fairest of seasons

2011-02-20T21:55:00.003-05:00

this is how I think life would be,

if we escaped the world, to live on the moon.

nayenezgani

2011-02-16T09:47:00.003-05:00

Nayenezgani: "Slayer of Enemy Gods"

"One day the maiden was gathering wood when she felt something touch the woods and she was frightened and ran home; though she did not know it, the Sun Spirit had touched her, after this for six months she and the Sun never met; then twins were born to her called Nayenezgani and Tobaschischin, "Slayer of Enemy Gods" and "Born from the Water." They grew strong and well and at sixteen years they were anxious to find out who was their father, and one day their mother pointed to the Sun and said,"That is your father"."

images I took of Frank Tell's aw2011 collection

(except photos 4,6,and 8, which are from style.com)

excerpt from "Navajo Creation Myth" by Mary C. Wheelwright

my silver moon

2011-02-14T16:59:00.002-05:00

I'd have posted this sooner, but my valentine kept my

in such a dizzy, happy state all day, that I could not

find myself able to think properly, even on the simplest of tasks!

I hope you all had a magical Valentine's day, my dears.

stills from Marie Antoinette

excerpt from "Ode to Fanny" by John Keats

i never met you

2011-02-06T11:40:00.002-05:00

photographs by Katheryn Love

quote from "Heavenly Creatures"

girls in white dresses

2011-01-31T12:52:00.005-05:00

Excerpt from "A Dream Within A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe

Stills from "Picnic at Hanging Rock"

As I'm feeling a bit ill, I really had no desire to edit down

such a lovely collection of images. This is one of my favorite films,

and it seems to be helping me fall into a dreamy slumber.

tugging and pulling

2011-01-22T14:59:00.002-05:00

excerpts from Dossier magazine issue no.4
photographs by Osma Harvilahti

modern romance

2011-01-16T01:34:00.000-05:00

photographs by Eliot Lee Hazel for THEM Rag

quotes from A Magazine Curated by Giambattista Valli

1.11.11

2011-01-11T21:42:00.000-05:00

new work for 2011

So far, the cards have been correct.

nothing to do with anything

2010-12-24T00:31:00.003-05:00

"Sara seemed as much unlike her as if she were a creature from another world.

On this particular afternoon she had been taking her dancing lesson,

and the afternoon on which the dancing-master appeared was rather

a grand occasion at the seminary, though it occurred every week.

The pupils were attired in their prettiest frocks, and as Sara danced

particularly well, she was very much brought forward,

and Mariette was requested to make her as diaphanous and fine as possible.

Today a frock the colour of a rose had been put on her, and Mariette

had brought some real buds and made her a wreath to wear on her black locks.

She had been learning a new, delightful dance in which she

had been skimming and flying about the room, like a large rose-coloured butterfly,

and the enjoyment and exercise had brought a brilliant,

happy glow into her face."

Excerpt from "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Photographs by Aaron Feaver.

the secret garden

2010-12-18T13:26:00.001-05:00

Video by Blake Martin.
Photographs by Lina Scheynius for Lula Issue 11.

Urnatur

2010-12-16T02:15:00.003-05:00

If you want to find me, I'll be off in the Neverland.

"Perhaps she is going to sing in her sleep," said Peter.

"Wendy, sing the kind of house you would like to have."

Immediately, without opening her eyes, Wendy began to sing:

"I wish I had a pretty house,

The littlest ever seen,

With funny little red walls

And a roof of mossy green."

They gurgled with joy at this, for the greatest good luck the branches they had brought were sticky with red sap, and all the ground was carpeted with moss.

As they rattled up the little house they broke into song themselves:

"We've built the little walls and roof

And made a lovely door,

So tell us, mother Wendy,

What are you wanting more?"

"...He knocked politely, and now the wood was as still as the children,

not a sound to be heard except from Tinker Bell, who was watching

from a branch and openly sneering...."

photographs of Urnatur (Swedish for ancient nature)

videos of it here.

excerpt taken from J.M. Barrie's "Peter and Wendy".

caught between earth and water

2010-12-10T20:13:00.003-05:00

It's been too much to wrap my mind around this blog
for a couple weeks now.
I still love it, as it, in a way, disciplines me to constantly
search for new artists and inspiring imagery.
So I haven't quit on you, and I hope you won't quit on me.
It will just be a bit sparser than usual.

P.S. I have been very busy with my own photo series, so please be patient to
see new work! In the mean time, here's a peak at Skye Parrott's show,
"First Love, Last Rites", open now at Capricious!

photographs by Skye Parrott

snow moon

2010-11-21T21:55:00.002-05:00

photographs by Samuel Hodge

quotes taken from I Love You magazine

Because I want you

2010-11-13T01:15:00.002-05:00

photographs by Yulia Gorodinski (her website and tumblr)

excerpt from 38 Questions by R a k e t a and friends

snow princess

2010-11-11T02:36:00.000-05:00

photographs by Agnes Thor

(her new book, Aurora Borealis, is amazinggg.

I think it will be released soon?)

p.s. snow was spotted in the northern forests!

the girl who tamed the tiger

2010-11-06T22:36:00.000-04:00

photographs by Marie Zucker

(visit her flickr and blog)

excerpts from "book of questions" by r a k e t a & friends

remember me, remember me

2010-11-03T21:32:00.003-04:00

because I'm still here.

I'll wait for you,

for the last moon of the year.

And if the year has gone,

and you're lost with it,

the spell will be broken.

The moon and I must carry on.

photographs by Charlotte Boeyden

All Hallows Eve

2010-10-31T01:49:00.002-04:00

Happy Halloween, everyone!!

I have been busy, busy, busy lately.

It seems that every few days, I am running out of the city for work!

The past couple of days brought me to Boston and Salem.

I had the amazing opportunity to sit down and speak

with some of the wonderful people at the Salem Witch Museum!

So big thank yous to them for all of their help with

my current photo series.

I am now all Halloween'd out before the actual day has arrived,

so I believe I'll be celebrating by editing photos

and listening to my interview (and eating a bit of candy, of course!)

I hope all of you have an amazing weekend, full of tricks and treats!

- J

3. excerpt from Saturday's Boston Globe, 4. "The Witchcraft Hysteria of 1962" pamphlet,

5. excerpt from "Magic Spells and Incantations" by The Witches Almanac, 7. excerpt from "Miscellany" pamphlet of Salem Witch Museum

indian summer

2010-10-26T02:11:00.001-04:00

forest bound

2010-10-23T14:48:00.002-04:00

the fall colors are too beautiful to ignore.
heading upstate for one last look...

photographs by Edouard Plongeon

keeping myself busy

2010-10-20T21:34:00.003-04:00

life is moving at an incredibly fast pace.

I'm not sure if I can keep up.

But the forests calms all, right?

image 6 from Adirondack Museum archive

"The Adirondack Princess" by Doris E. Schuyler

this is how I feel.

2010-10-14T01:45:00.003-04:00

You're a ghost

I tried to write you a letter,

but I didn't know how to begin.

Too much time has passed,

and I think you're better off

staying away from my world.

photography by Valentina Vos.

10.10.10

2010-10-10T19:32:00.001-04:00

a weekend retrospective

John Lennon's 70th birthday memorial

Salem Halloween plannings

animal and astrology research

M. Night Shyamalan talks at Comic Con

Cozying up with a Jane Austen

Blood Moon, new moon

I love you, fall.

oh, hello.

2010-10-07T23:25:00.002-04:00

photographs by Tamara Lichtenstein.

can you feel it?

yes, that's fall.

where all the pretty creatures go.

2010-10-02T16:05:00.002-04:00

you're sure to follow.

ss11 photographs of Rodarte, Charles Anastase, Lanvin,
and Proenza Schouler from style.com
tree drawing from here.

they made me do it.

2010-09-30T02:23:00.002-04:00

photos by Tim Walker for W magazine October 2010

she told me my future, but i didn't believe it.

2010-09-28T21:24:00.002-04:00

all the things I found in the bottom of my bag.

(really)

I have a bizarre life.

i always love new york in autumn

2010-09-23T01:39:00.002-04:00

The Harvest Moon comes soon before or soon after the autumnal equinox. It is simply the full moon closest to that equinox. About once every four years it occurs in October (in the northern hemisphere), depending on the cycles of the moon. Currently, the latest the Harvest Moon can occur is on October 7.

In 2010, in the United States, the Harvest Moon happens in the early morning hours of Sept 23, only 5 1/2 hours after the autumnal equinox.

Often, the Harvest Moon seems to be bigger or brighter or more colorful than other full moons. The warm color of the moon shortly after it rises is caused by light from the moon passing through a greater amount of atmospheric particles than when the moon is overhead. The atmosphere scatters the bluish component of moonlight (which is really reflected white light from the sun), but allows the reddish component of the light to travel a straighter path to one's eyes. Hence all celestial bodies look reddish when they are low in the sky.

The apparent larger size is because the brain perceives a low-hanging moon to belarger than one that's high in the sky. This is known as a moon illusion and it can be seen with any full moon. It can also be seen with constellations; in other words, a constellation viewed low in the sky will appear bigger than when it is high in the sky.

photographs by Edouard Plongeon

officially fall.

officially a full moon.

never let me go

2010-09-21T23:10:00.002-04:00

stills from "Never Let Me Go"

adapted from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

If you read the book, then you should see the movie.

I promise you will like it.

Agnese & the Gypsies

2010-09-17T00:48:00.002-04:00

I haven't been keeping up with my current events.

My head is stuck in a cloud, and it refuses to come down.

Maybe when it is just a bit cooler, then things will be okay.

photography by Samantha Casolari

if I could be anywhere

2010-09-14T23:17:00.002-04:00

at this precise moment in time?

I'd be with you.

I'd be in your car, and we'd be on one of our adventures.

We'd drive on all of those twisty roads, deep in the forest.

I wish I could be there every day.

There's a half moon in the sky, and it smells like fall.

Won't you please take me for one last ride?

I want to see those trees before the leaves are gone.

Before you're gone, too.

photographs by Harper Smith

is it over?

2010-09-12T01:31:00.004-04:00

has the summer really come and gone?

I want to believe the cool air will stay this time.

That it will wrap itself around me and hold tight.

That the temperature will continue to drop, drop, drop.

I want to shiver under a sky of snow fall,

and dance in the dark, when it is only midday.

goodbye, summer.

photographs by Claudine Doury

what is your favorite part

2010-09-10T01:14:00.001-04:00

of the human body?

photos by Mariam Sitchinava

p.s. tonight, Sophie Mörner is opening her solo show at Capricious Gallery.

If you happen to find yourselves wandering the streets of Brooklyn,

please take a moment to stop in to say hello!

this time around.

2010-09-07T10:40:00.001-04:00

I'll miss you when you go.

second nature

2010-09-04T11:29:00.003-04:00

spending a last weekend of summer in the enchanted forest.

one last time to breath in as much magic as possible...

photographs by Corinne Day (r.i.p)

these days

2010-09-01T22:54:00.004-04:00

Sometimes it feels like the city sucks you dry.

We lose our instincts, our mannerisms.

We ignore each other, and forget the value of another's life.

We forget to appreciate the happiness in a tiny moment.

The magic is gone, and no one wants to believe it was every really there.

Sometimes I wish I could travel back to another time,

to a point where the world didn't require proof of the unknown,

where things were simple, and magic ran wild.

Faster-than-light travel

The impossibility of faster-than-light relative speed only applies locally. Wormholes allow superluminal (faster-than-light) travel by ensuring that the speed of light is not exceeded locally at any time. While traveling through a wormhole, subluminal (slower-than-light) speeds are used. If two points are connected by a wormhole, the time taken to traverse it would be less than the time it would take a light beam to make the journey if it took a path through the space outside the wormhole. However, a light beam traveling through the wormhole would always beat the traveler. As an analogy, running around to the opposite side of a mountain at maximum speed may take longer than walking through a tunnel crossing it.

Time travel

The theory of general relativity predicts that if traversable wormholes exist, they could allow time travel.

photographs by Lucie Malbequi

the dreaming

2010-08-30T14:43:00.005-04:00

Ghost

In folklore, fiction, philosophy, and popular culture, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person, taken to be capable of appearing in visible form or otherwise manifesting itself to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely: the mode of manifestation can range from an invisible presence to translucent or wispy shapes, to realistic, life-like visions. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is known as necromancy, or in spiritism as a séance.

The belief in manifestations of the spirits of the dead is widespread, dating back to animism or ancestor worship in pre-literate cultures. Certain religious practices—funeral rites, exorcisms, and some practices of spiritualism and ritual magic—are specifically designed to appease the spirits of the dead. Ghosts are generally described as solitary essences that haunt particular locations, objects, or people with which they were associated in life, though stories of phantom armies, ghost trains, phantom ships, and even ghost animals have also been recounted.

According to the Gallup Poll News Service, belief in haunted houses, ghosts, communication with the dead, and witches had an especially steep increase over the 1990s. A 2005 Gallup poll found that about 32 percent of Americans believe in ghosts.

photography by Edouard Plongeon

excerpt from "Myths and Mysteries of Washington State" by Lynn Bragg

the moon was full, and no one ever knew.

2010-08-24T23:56:00.003-04:00

I like to think that I'm the kind of person that doesn't have to see something,
just to believe that it is true.
But sometimes, I catch myself not even believing the moon is still
standing up in the sky, if it has been blanketed by clouds for several days.
And how sad it must be, for an entire city to not know when the moon shines
full and bright, simply because it is hidden away.
I knew in my heart, I could not celebrate it's arrival, when it was not there.
I wonder if that means I've grown up too much.
That if a fairy or ghost came upon me, I would simply turn it away as
something easily explainable.
Sometimes, the hair that stands up on the back of your neck, or a pinch on
your leg that can not be explained should stay that way, unexplainable.
Then, at least, the imaginary world hasn't truly died off.

Lillie's in the graveyard again, looking for ghosts.

2010-08-23T15:07:00.002-04:00

photographs by Roberta Ridolfi

title quote and excerpt from "Moonlight & Vines" by Charles de Lint

summer's ending.

desiring amnesia.

2010-08-20T22:05:00.003-04:00

I've been distracted, but I'm not sure by what.

Something is drawing my attention away from what is real,

away from the world in front of me.

Something is filling my head with haze,

a blanket of smog that smothers the senses.

Something doesn't want me to move forward,

but can't keep me in the past.

Something is stopping time,

and I've stopped along with it.

photos by tang chan.

if life was like the story books we read.

2010-08-13T17:43:00.002-04:00

I haven't had time to write pretty lines and search for ghostly photographs.

the dark moon scooped me up, and took me to a place I only knew of in my dreams.

It was a memory place, a secret place. A place I wish I could never leave.

to be unchanged but completely different

2010-08-07T02:00:00.003-04:00

powerful suggestions

2010-08-05T13:55:00.002-04:00

if you go to their meeting place,
if you go to their homes,
if you go to their forests,
you'd never know unless
you were invited forward.

lighthouses will ensue...

2010-08-03T15:40:00.004-04:00

(this is just a step between)

photographs by Sarah Wilmer.

running wild.

2010-08-01T00:01:00.000-04:00

You won't catch me here, nor there.
I've gone away, and have yet to arrive anywhere.

photographs by Martin Pisotti

left and wounded

2010-07-31T00:01:00.001-04:00

I have a strong urge to pick up and leave.
Not forever, because nothing can be forever.
I just want to see the world,
I want to be on the outside looking in.
I want to know what it feels like to be surrounded
by a place of beauty, and not know a soul in it.

photographs by Irwin Barbe
excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

what I want

2010-07-29T12:54:00.002-04:00

unwillingly mine.

2010-07-27T16:48:00.001-04:00

photography by Sofia Ajram
excerpt from Chéri by Colette

I'm heading to the sea by the end of the week
I need to free myself at land's end

this is where they sleep. this is why they conjure.

2010-07-25T00:01:00.000-04:00

photographs by "passeriformes"
excerpt from "Practical Magic" by Alice Hoffman

i have apparently acquired a deep fascination with all things witchy...

bedknobs and broomsticks

2010-07-24T15:09:00.002-04:00

photographs by Ellen Von Unwerth for Lula no. 7
pages from "Witchcraft, Magic, and Alchemy"

half moon princess

2010-07-21T00:01:00.001-04:00

excerpt from "Practical Magic" by Alice Hoffman
photographs by Rosie Hardy
(I believe she is the female Tim Walker...)

when you're here.

2010-07-20T10:25:00.002-04:00

.

2010-07-18T00:00:00.000-04:00

photographs by Chloe Aftel
poem by Sam Falls

because.

2010-07-16T12:30:00.000-04:00

photographs by Fumiko Imano
poem by Sam Falls

I would post some photographs from the opening
of my show, but I think there is only one image of
me from the entire evening!
However, if you are curious, you can check out the
photos that I have posted on the gallery's website
at www.becapricious.com!
It really was a wonderful night, and I'm so happy
that my friends could be there to celebrate with me!

always counting down to...

2010-07-15T16:05:00.001-04:00

something that never seems to appear.
I wish we could hold the days in our hands.
Then we would know that we had them.
Then I could prove you exist.

photographs by Ananda Serné