PORTRAIT SERIES - on TRUTH and VULNERABILITY and its different qualities

Photography Sayaka Murayama (c) - all rights reserved

Performer/ visual artist Angela Costa (c)-  all rights reserved

The angular, intense, perforating image of the truth who brings pain 

and

the finger, gentle , sincere, softly pointing upwards.

a definite breath - a brave step inside Vulnerability - masks fall - the naked vulnerable body - the TRUTH makes an appearance , gracefully.

(from personal portrait and truth series - photographed by Sayaka Murayama)

on TRUTH and two of its different qualities,

the angular, intense, perforating image of the truth who brings pain

and,

the beautiful, soft, reassuring lightness image of the truth who brings joy

both altough,

offering fulfillment, clarity and realization

and that is always the best place to be in life - regardless of any fears, desires or disillusions.

A breath of courage

masks off

the naked vulnerability of body - the TRUTH

appears,

gracefully

A life of sharp, painful heroic TRUTH preferred

to a moment of pleasurable ignorant obscurity.

And the journey continues,

always

trough light, mist or darkness

towards TRUTH ...

FILM DIARIES - La Maison - beloved objects and spaces

Me and my mother, favorite photo. Strange I think I look like her now.

I like dust, it keeps memory.

The bedroom wall -  improvised drawing walls, where I currently draw and write impulsive thoughts/ideas. Some people are disturbed by black. I like black. Its not good or bad -  it is just a color, with its own quality. For me it is silence, it offers quietness. In black I can hear myself and express fully.

The smiling rice paper head. Always smiling back at you.

Auto -portrait drawing + studies. Improvised studio space at the back of the wall door.

(all shot with 1970s Manual Canon Camera)

FILM DIARIES - the first black and white film roll

A beautiful mistake

Disreality passing by - CAUGHT on CAMERA

THREE go for a ride

Seat NUMBER 7

                                                           The wheel keeps turning

Two tiny eyes staring BACK at me

Remaining

Plug - in - steps

The first black and white film shots -  images on a quick pass by fair ground on a warm, slightly mist, magical overcast day.

All color eliminated, the black and white film reveals a disturbing, dormant quietness qualities in the scenes. Passing over color -  this is what I have found that day.

Not surprisingly, more life synchronicities found too.

(all shot on B/W film - 1970s Manual Canon)

FILM DIARIES - The studio, the room, the mirror and the foot injury

The second foot sprain of the year -  photographed at the REAL EXACT moment when it happened during class.

The naked foot is vulnerability and hope, the dressed foot is perseverance and the damaged film shot is the injury.

3 private spaces captured at once: the studio, the bedroom and the mirror.

(all shot on film - 1970s Manual Canon)

FILM DIARIES - refuse (refused (?)) landscapes

The light dissolves (2 conflicting textures)

Mind (the) Pieces (multi segmentation and patterns)

(floor abandoned refuse @ ST. Martins Charing Cross)

(all shot on film - 1970s Manual Canon)

FILM DIARIES - a perfect day

Naked feet over grass and Sakura (after)

Tiger shoe lace feet (before)
(all shot on film - 1970s Manual Canon)

A CD for YOU

My latest pleasure to create fine design CD covers for my beloved ones ...
Something unique and reflecting theyre beautiful spirits,
I have been doing this for a while, but only know after being smudged by complimentary thank you's , I had the BRILLIANT idea to shoot some of them and add them to my CREATIVE portfolio.

I love to do it, but not randomly.

I like to keep the truth of the intention and I really only do these for people who have touched me somehow with either theyre friendship, theyre love or theyre talent.

Ultimately these are a  THANK YOU to a couple of special people for being beautiful (souls), inspiring (spirits) and for in some way  entering my life.

Here are the latest one  (hopefully more to come on due time)