mary

model & makeup: mary
photo & styling: me

Here's Mary. :) All I can say is, she's a very beautiful friend of mine.

.. But I was smiling
More gently than anyone else
Standing alone
Without an umbrella
-- rainy day by ayumi hamasaki

soon.

During the 4th of July weekend, I got sick with a high fever. I had achy bones and standing up drained me of all my energy, so I napped through the entirety of Saturday, waking up every a couple of hours to watch the light from my windows change from seafoam white to soft honey and finally to dark inky blue as the night cast its shadow. Sometime before the sun set, I woke up dazed to the sound of high-pitched chirping that came from the attic: baby birds. They just hatched. Their chirping sounded so raw, the first cry of their life.

All day long, and over the night, my mom tended to me. Her warm hand on my forehead. Her rice porridge. Her caring and devotion.

sakura

walk deeper in ..

quietly

Chine-collé, etching in plexiglass

etching in zinc

Chine-collé, cut in linoleum

These prints are from printmaking class ... I really enjoyed every moment of the class! I'm not the best printmaker in the world .. but it was SO much fun. Will truly miss it.

early hearts at night

something about the snow when it falls. i love it. the gray milkiness of the sky, 

the mist that thickly covers the top of trees from far away, the silence of it all. 

Levi's Photo Workshop

Been having an obsession with floral overlays over photos .... 

I was at Levi's Photo Workshop this weekend. My friends and I fooled around in front of the photobooth and printed our pictures (printed in vintage saturation ... the tones are absolutely gorgeous) on t-shirts for free there.

I'm in love with the photo with the man in black, which reminds me of Phantom of the Opera and Edward Scissorhands.

A rack of Levi's jackets and jeans.

neverlost

view outside the plane on the way back from Hong Kong

unfinished drawing

"... Whatever you do, dont give a damn what they say
You are wonderful just the way you are
Cant stop whats coming your way ..."

love love love olivia lufkin

The fickle weather here brought a hint of winter chills to NYC a few days ago and it reminded my friends and me of the merry festivities to come ... I honestly cannot wait to see the first falling of snow!

raindrops in my pocket

the texture of water, or just water alone, reminds me of

raindrops i saw on a bush of sweet-pink roses as i walked past the park,
the thick-as-chocolate fog that i squinted my eyes to see through but still could not,
the crystals of ice that found a home under the porch light,
the spray of water that cast a flash of rainbow,
the reflection of the starry sky on the black inky lake ...