Street Shy Arts – One Street Shy

Shadows Deep, A Photograph of Books

December 12, 2013December 12, 2013One Street Shy1 Comment

WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
– W.B Yeats

Wanderer, A Photograph of Verona, Italy

December 11, 2013December 11, 2013One Street Shy1 Comment

“We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams.”
― Gypsy Saying

Digested – A Photograph of Books

December 6, 2013December 6, 2013One Street ShyLeave a comment

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
– Francis Bacon

Glass, A Photograph

November 24, 2013One Street Shy1 Comment

“A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.”
– Ezra Pound

Upward Glance, A Photograph

November 22, 2013November 22, 2013One Street ShyLeave a comment

“That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.”
– Ayn Rand

Orange, A Photograph

November 18, 2013One Street ShyLeave a comment

“Oh Paris
From red to green all the yellow dies away
Paris Vancouver Hyeres Maintenon New York and the Antilles
The window opens like an orange
The beautiful fruit of light
– Guillaume Apollinaire

Word, A Photograph

November 12, 2013One Street Shy2 Comments

“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

Inexpressible, A Photograph

November 7, 2013One Street Shy1 Comment

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
– Aldous Huxley

O Human Child, A Photograph

November 6, 2013November 6, 2013One Street Shy2 Comments

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― W.B. Yeats

Little Boy - Granada Spain — Little Boy – Granada Spain

Little by Little, A Photograph

November 3, 2013November 3, 2013One Street ShyLeave a comment

Another Land, Jennifer Allison — Little by Little, Jennifer Allison

“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land”

― Pablo Neruda

Punctuation Mark, A Photograph

November 2, 2013November 2, 2013One Street ShyLeave a comment

“Smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The photo below is one I could’ve taken a dozen times while in Spain — men relaxing with cigars, watching the world go by. It’s hard to take photos and not be obvious. It’s different when you take them of street performers as they welcome them, however, taking them of everyday people doing everyday things….is much more challenging.

Human Nature, A Photograph

November 1, 2013November 2, 2013One Street ShyLeave a comment

For the next several weeks I’ll be sharing some of my photos from Spain. While there I visited Madrid, Sevilla, Cordoba, Granada and finally Barcelona.

I’ll be heading back in late spring to the Catalan region to attend (and be a part of) a wedding and will surely take many more. Along with the photographs, I’ll try to share a few thoughts about each place. My girlfriend, who is the one getting married, was born and raised in Barcelona. She is perhaps one of the proudest people I know with regards to her mother country. When I first met her in Verona, Italy, she explained in detail that she was not Spanish, but Catalan. I like that about her – her knowledge of her people and country. Among many things we have in common, while having been raised in polar opposite countries, is our love of books. The photo below is of a little shop, filled literally to the ceiling. Needles to say, it was hard to leave…

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
– Henry Ward Beecher

Personal Tragedy, A Photograph

October 22, 2013One Street ShyLeave a comment

“It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.”
– Albert Camus

Dogs, A Photograph

October 18, 2013July 26, 2014One Street Shy1 Comment

I am leaving for Spain this weekend. I’ll be making stops in Madrid, Sevilla, Cordoba, Granada and finally Barcelona to meet up with a girlfriend. In preparation for my trip, I have chosen to post something I have grown accustom to in the last twenty years here in Seattle and the surrounding areas. Native art has not, until recently, been interesting to me. However, my tastes have changed dramatically and now I think it powerful and beautiful all at once.

“A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.”
– George Bernard Shaw

Will, A Photograph

October 17, 2013One Street Shy3 Comments

“Where’s your will to be weird?”
– Jim Morrison

Boxes, A Photograph

October 14, 2013One Street Shy2 Comments

“The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.”
– Alain de Botton