Some out-takes from the photoshoot for Atomica Magazine
Amazing Models: Elena Miska and Fernanda Toledo
Wonderful Stylist: Danielle Wallis
The Best Assistant: Kelli Cochran

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

ROBERT FULGHUM (ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN)

 

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E.B. WHITE

Who will save me from existence? It isn’t death that I want, or life:

it’s the other thing that shines at the bottom of all longing like a possible diamond in a cave one cannot reach.

 

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

 

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

— Eugene O’Neill

 

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

— George Bernard Shaw

 

so lovely.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

— Herman Melville

 

You wish to see the distant realms? Very well. But know this first, the places you will visit, the places you will see, do not exist. For there are only two worlds — your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this one, worlds of the human imagination. Their reality, or lack of reality is not important. What is important is that they are there. These worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power, provide refuge and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matter.

The Books of Magic, Neil Gaiman

 

So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love — loving the loving of things whose existence she didn’t care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

 

 

…sometimes when I wake up

/// on those really beautiful days///

the sun will hit my black out curtains just right,

orchestrating a show of coruscating lights.

/// a front row seat to my own personal constellation///.

i want it. all of it.

come hither, please.

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don’t bother asking for explanations
She’ll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat.

My photography exhibit at The Summit was absolutely wonderful!

Dreams do come true.

Special thanks to all those that came out, I appreciate your support more than anything.

Here are some photos that I have gathered from the show!

More images from the show after the jump!

embrace imperfections.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

—E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

 

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

— Willa Cather

 

Instillation artist, Jason de Caires Taylor creates fascinating and breathtaking life size cement sculptures for an underwater experiment in South America. He explores the relationship between art and environment in this series. After months of being submerged, the sculptures begin to form the natural ecological processes that occur underwater.

An except of his artist statement:

“The ocean is imbued with mystery. Underwater and devoid of white walls the viewer is unrestrained in their interaction with the work. Buoyancy and weightlessness enable a detached physical experience, encouraging encounters that are perceptual and personal. As time passes and the works change, they reshape and redefine the underwater landscape in unpredictable ways.”

He goes into further detail on his website.

A lovely video of his work.

Here are some photographs of his wondrous artwork.

see more of these beautiful images

for all you folks in san francisco,

please come join me,for the happiest time of my life on Friday, January 7th.

Sex+Design is promoting the Kari Devereaux Photography Exhibit at The Summit!

pure bliss.

Links for the events:

SFStation

Facebook

sanfrancisco.com

SanJose.com

hope to see your lovely faces there

you know you’ve found it because you feel it when they take it away

photo of me. by kelli cochran