Some photos that are more saturated than others.
water snakes / pink bucket (floating market, Bangkok)
Raining at the Grand Palace
Floating Market Vendors , Bangkok River
Embak-Bakia meaning ‘leave me alone’ / “the female [gives] the peace”
Ambiguous in the title. A collection of double exposed images, stop motion and rotating artifacts. Dancing legs to a man ripping off his collar.
Photography by Jacques Herni Lartigue / la muse Bibi
Summer changes the way we dress
the way we think of dressing less.
-NVS
” One cannot fight the battle without freedom. I think the best way to fight that battle, which equals the unyielding spirit, is in the realm of creation. That’s exactly why freedom and the spirit of defiance is the source (fountainhead) of my energy.”
- Rei Kawakubo (for AnOther Magazine)
here are some more photos from my first trip to thailand / poem.
fishing on the Bangkok river / 2012
window waking up morning #2
sanctuary of truth / 2012
All – Nippon – Airlines / waiting to arrive
broken glaciers from above 21,000 ft
sean michael , peninsula hotel / 2012
Airport Minded
By seeing all that is good and evil in the universe
Make all things alike
I see myself in all beautiful things
The Great Glaciers solid of white
Those are existent
However, broken into deep phantom blue oceans
Frosted by haunting feathers of clouds
I am touching those
I am oh, so close
With the dawn peaking shades of purple miasma
My soul escapes to nirvana
All that is miserable is within my misery
I follow the entrance, and you come to the door
Pretty dandelions grow beneath the old hawthorn
New and old, same soil for growth
Fertilizing and giving life to both
Everyone I meet is a mirror image of me
And every reflection a moment, you see.
We must be careful for wishing and searching
But be aware of accepting and finding
Atlas, my hands meet
To feel a hearts beat
Today is tomorrow
Feel deeply into joy and lightly into sorrow
The sunlight is the moonlight
Both brighten the sky
In shades of likeness between you and I
Goodmorning, goodnight
-Nicole Van Straatum / Jan 2012
Recently featured in Dossier Journal, as the ‘first fashion film’ created by William Claxton. Claxton, used this is an experiment of women’s imaginative ways of creating self-image. In the sixties, while defining female sexuality through fashion and the world of power in art, I see this 6 minute film directed as an invitation to exploring.
Model / Peggy Moffitt
Director & Creator / William Claxton
in dreams
we create the desire we want
in dreams
we believe we have them all
- nvs
holding / tasting dragons from Nicole Van Straatum on Vimeo.
exploration of the human curiosity of ‘fruitful’ discoveries. instinctual and sensual of the most essential thing to us- food.
Nothing says discovery other than enjoyment of new rituals.