I change my header image every 7th post. so in case you’re interested in the old ones, here they are: 

  1. city5.jpg (Jul 29 – Aug 3, 2007) : dark red background, white cityscape illustration [that I borrowed from a wordpress theme], black text quoting from Conchitina Cruz’s poem “Disappear” [I walk one block and pass a series of testaments to failure—the skeleton of a building, a half-built bridge already breaking down. On the dusty metal fence hangs a sign that promises a highway. You were in love, you wanted out of a city that screamed abandonment.] 
  2. sekhmet.jpg (Aug 4 - Aug 8, 2007) : yellow backround, b/w illustration of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet [that I borrowed from somewhere on the web], black text quoting from Margaret Atwood’s poem “Sekhmet: The Lion-Headed Goddess of War…” [If it's selfless love you're looking for, you've got the wrong goddess.] 
  3. sleep.jpg (Aug 8 – Aug 12, 2007) : background, unknown pic from unknown Takeshi Kaneshiro film, yes, that’s Takeshi Kaneshiro asleep, white text quoting from May Swenson’s poem “The Key to Everything” [You're looking for the right person the doctor or the nurse the father or the mother or the person with the name you keep mumbling in your sleep...]
  4. lamppost.jpg (Aug 13 – Aug 16, 2007) : background, pic of a lamppost in the UK I got somewhere in the net and edited in photoshop, white text quoting from Conchitina Cruz’s poem “Disappear” [Let me stand under the shadow of a lamppost as is my habit, though it is evening, the weather is cool, and you are gone. If I keep still enough inside this shadow, it is as if I am not here. If I keep still enough, there is no proof you are not here with me.]
  5. castle.jpg (Aug 17 – Aug 21, 2007) : background, pic of castle in salzburg, austria, manipulated in photoshop, grey text quoting from EE Cummings’s poem “You Being in Love” [Love if you like, and i like, for the reason that i hate people and lean out of this window is love, love and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason that i do not fall into this street is love.]
  6. tea.jpg (Aug 22 – Aug 24, 2007): background, pic of teacup i got somewhere in the internet, grey text quoting TS Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” [There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.]
  7. heart.jpg (Aug 25 - Aug 28, 2007): red spraypaint over black background, heart on left side, black text quoting Neil Gaiman’s poem “Dark Sonnet” [I really don't know what I love you means, I think it means don't leave me here alone.]
  8. sky.jpg (Aug 29 – Sep 2, 2007): background, pic of paris skyline from my files, black text quoting R. Zamora Linmark’s “The Muse This Time” [That's the closest to my idea of love: watching the skyline, making out, making mistakes, making believe desire means it's with somebody else, then breaking up, and, if we're lucky, forgiveness that comes right before take-off. There, I've said it. What more can one want? A lover who loves me as much as the rain. Rain, and, from the opening credits to the closing heart, Gershwin.]
  9. eternalsunshine.jpg (Sep 3 – Sep 9, 2007): red bacground with pic from film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, white text quoting Rod McKuen’s “Room” [Once I'd promised to forget you. I ran backward, making sure that I'd remember you for always.]
  10. shadow.jpg (Sep 10 – Sep 15, 2007): background pic of woman’s shadow I got somewhere in the net, white text quoting Sylvia Plath’s “Elm” [Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it. Listen: these are its hooves: it has gone off, like a horse.]
  11. cityblur.jpg (Sep 16 – Sep 19, 2007): screenshot from my thesis film, gray text quoting Isabelita Reyes’s “What a Thing is Made Of” [Now you have time: calibrate your emotions.]
  12. colors.jpg (Sep 20 – Sep 23, 2007): pic of mountains in Switzerland edited with photoshop, various coloured text quoting Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Eighth Elegy” [Who's turned us around like this, so that whatever we do, we always have the look of someone going away? Just as a man on the last hill, showing him his whole valley one last time, turns, and stops, and lingers -- so we live, and are forever leaving.]
  13. sloop.jpg (Sep 24 – Oct 2, 2007): pic of sloops in a harbor borrowed from the internet an edited with photoshop, black text quoting Anne Sexton’s “For My Lover Returning to His Wife” [As for me I am watercolor. I wash off.]
  14. atfirstsight.jpg (Oct 3 – Oct 8, 2007): pic of Takeshi Kaneshiro borrowed from Turn Left Turn Right, white text quoting Wislawa Szymborska’s “Love At First Sight” [Beautiful is such certainty but uncertainty is more beautiful still.]
  15. table.jpg (Oct. 9 – Oct. 13, 2007): pic of dining table taken from internet and edited with photoshop, blue text quoting Derek Walcott’s Love After Love” [Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to the stranger who has loved you all your life. Whom you ignored...]
  16. doctorwho.jpg (Oct 13 – Oct 16, 2007): 3 pictures from Doctor Who taken from BBC website and merged together using photoshop, black text quoting The Doctor from Series 2 Episode 13 of Doctor Who “Doomsday” [I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye.]

1 Response to “Gallery”


  1. 14 November 2007 at 9:32 pm

    You are inspired. In turn, you inspire – and challenge others. Thank you…


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Wendy played fair, and she played by the rules that they gave her;
They say she grew up and grew old -- Peter Pan couldn't save her.
They say she went home, and she never looked back,
Got her feet on the ground, got her life on its track.
She's the patron saint priestess of all the lost girls who got found.
And she once had her head in the clouds, but she died on the ground.

Dorothy just wanted something that she could believe in,
A gray dustbowl girl in a life she was better off leavin'.
She made her escape, went from gray into green,
And she could have got clear, and she could have got clean,
But she chose to be good and go back to the gray Kansas sky
Where color's a fable and freedom's a fairy tale lie.

Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane,
Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names,
All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain
And chose to go back on the shelf.
Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree
You have to break rules if you want to break free.
So do as you like -- we're determined to be
Wicked girls saving ourselves.

Alice got lost, and I guess that we really can't blame her;
They say she got tangled and tied in the lies that became her.
They say she went mad, and she never complained,
For there's peace of a kind in a life unconstrained.
She gives Cheshire kisses, she's easy with white rabbit smiles,
And she'll never be free, but she's won herself safe for a while.

Susan and Lucy were queens, and they ruled well and proudly.
They honored their land and their lord, rang the bells long and loudly.
They never once asked to return to their lives
To be children and chattel and mothers and wives,
But the land cast them out in a lesson that only one learned;
And one queen said 'I am not a toy', and she never returned.

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And Deborah will pour you red wine pressed from sweet poisoned berries.
Kate poses riddles and Mary plays tricks,
While Kaia builds towers from brambles and sticks,
And the rules that we live by are simple and clear:
Be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear --

For we will be wicked and we will be fair
And they'll call us such names, and we really won't care,
So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes,
There's a place they can go if they're tired of chains,
And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost,
But we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost --
We won't take our place on the shelves.
It's better to fly and it's better to die
Say the wicked girls saving ourselves.