Vincent's Yellow

a[n] [auto]biography and a love story.

The Last of Arles

I come here with a heavy heart this week, Reader. Often times, being an artist is quite lonely and isolating. Your work cannot be understood until it is finished — you cannot be understood, either. Not by many, anyway. I know Vincent felt the same way. And so I offer you some beauty I encountered […]

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Mon, December 7 2009 » Personal, Photo entries, Research, Travel » 2 Comments

Paris

If Amsterdam was a wide embrace, if the Kröller-Müller was a sweet smile, if Nuenen was chill breath, and Auvers, hot tears… Paris was a wary look. From the moment I set foot on the Rue de Dunkerque, I felt that Paris would endure my visit, but it did not necessarily wish me well. There […]

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Mon, November 9 2009 » Personal, Photo entries, Research, Travel » 1 Comment

A cabin

What I think is the best life, oh without even the slightest shadow of a doubt, is a life made up of long years of being in touch with nature out of doors — and with the something on high — unfathomable, ‘awfully Unnameable’, because one can’t find a name for it — above that nature. […]

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Thu, November 5 2009 » Personal, Research » 4 Comments