Gallery

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.]