“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Architectural photography
Undramatic, a photograph
Architecture, even at its most accomplished, will only ever constitute a small, and imperfect (expensive, prone to destruction, and morally unreliable), protest against the state of things. More awkwardly still, architecture asks us to imagine that happiness might often have an unostentatious, unheroic character to it, that it might be found in a run of old floorboards or in a wash of morning light over a plaster wall—in undramatic, frangible scenes of beauty that move us because we are aware of the darker backdrop against which they are set.”
― Alain de Botton
Door, A Photograph of Madrid
“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”
– Charles Dickens
Milling, A Photograph of Tacoma WA
Word, A Photograph
“So I find words I never thought to speak
In streets I never thought I should revisit
When I left my body on a distant shore.”
– T.S. Eliot
Joy and Melancholy, A Photograph
“Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.”
– Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
One Street Shy 