Artist Leslie Ann O’Dell creates stunning photographs paired with hand painted embellishments. The otherworldly subjects are shrouded in layers of natural elements, adding a grounded tone to the ghostly figures.
Shakespeare & Company in Paris, France
"To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, and image of the beauty we have come to understand - that is art."
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (via thegirlandherbooks)
Resting, Victor Gabriel Gilbert. French (1847-1933)
"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
Graham Greene (via tahti)