Photography postcards with notes to please curiosity and inspire joy.
08/03/2022
Happy International Women’s Day, Ladies!
Today I would like to Thank every single woman who opened her heart and gave her hand to a sister in need. Every woman who empowered and supported another woman during either: low and high tides. I Thank every woman who chose kindness and compassion over a competitive judgement. Acceptance over discrimination. Empathy over rationality. Love over an emotional frost.
Nothing compares to You!
💛
25/02/2022
just a brief Hello to You
and Thanks to God for fresh air
and late night ice-cream
in Cork...
09/02/2022
Had you time in life reaching the edge of a mountain after a long journey hoping this must be the end, the finish line, what’s next is to fly. But then you realise your wings are yet too weak and this mountain is not steady at all, so you better step back, for it will crumble into the sea in no time. Watch.
F**k.
I am alive though. And there is nowhere else to go but home. To sweep the floor, light the fire, be lower than grass and wait for the dawn.
I might not write for a while. But I’ll keep the pencils sharp, for that moment when my tired head becomes aware of the earth singing again.
All shall pass.
Wishing you smooth ending of winter.
04/02/2022
In Eileen’s Bar in Kilcrohane, Sheep’s Head Peninsula, I ask for take away coffee. I say I’ll sit outside, for the sun is too gorgeous to miss. Eileen herself makes me a cuppa and brings them cute cupcakes along with it. Eileen knows we all like something with coffee. And two of something is always better than one, haha
God bless country people.
Sometimes I think they have their heads screwed on more meaningful and better things.
01/02/2022
SHEEP'S HEAD PENINSULA, WEST CORK, IRELAND
I am falling in love with winter in Ireland. I like its non-blinding sun, I like how its daylight enhances all colours. I like winter’s serene aura and the elegance of bare trees. I hear its calm voice of knowledge, I feel I’ll withstand every storm coming. I make a promise to myself as the bird starts to sing…
Love them moments.
Nature is empowering on so many levels.
27/01/2022
Words and their meanings fascinate me. The other day I came across the Japanese phrase: ‘koi no yokan’ with a dictionary translation ‘love at first sight’. When I told about it to Noriko, my Japanese friend, she said it’s actually closer to love at second sight. ‘It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will’, she explained.
Bare trees are koi no yokan for me, haha
22/01/2022
BALLYNACARRIGA CASTLE, CORK, IRELAND
is a 16th century tower house sited on a rocky outcrop, with two bartizans and one remaining turret out of four. Originally it had four storeys reached by a spiral stairs in one of the corners. The main room at the top was used as a chapel in the late 17th / early 18th centuries, is now roofless. Gorgeous views through the windows decorated with stone carvings. Especially the angel on one touched my heart. His feathers were carved exactly the same way I would draw them… how pleasantly surprising and bizarre…
As perhaps every castle, it has its own ghost, Molly the Pook. But the biggest surprise of all is a Sheela-na-gig (a carving of a naked woman displaying an exaggerated v***a) high up on an outside wall of the castle, said to avert evil.
The castle is exceptionally well preserved by Public Works Ireland, and I do understand why inside visit is not available for public; them stairs can be dangerous indeed. Though to me and my friend they were part of our big Ballynacarriga Castle marvel.
18/01/2022
It rarely snows in Ireland, but when it does, everyone’s world changes, at least for a short time. Everyone gets excited about the snow in their own way: I’ve seen an Asian couple once sticking their tongues out trying to catch the snowflakes to taste them, funny! Ireland looks very beautiful in a white gown, so unusual, that it does feel like true blessings were landed to jazz up our whole system a little bit, to kindle that joy of no particular reason. It’s lovely.
I like walking this delicate Irish snow where no one else walked before, makes me feel somewhat special… no coincidence in the season of recovery and preparation, I smile…
12/01/2022
In French, you don’t really say ‘I miss you.’
You say ‘tu me manques,’
which is closer to ‘you are missing from me.’
I like that.
p.s.I love you.
07/01/2022
BALLYCOTTON, EAST CORK, IRELAND
January IS a month of ‘new year’s resolutions’ for me; always been. January and September. It’s when I make a conscious decision to start something new in regards to my wellbeing. I do prepare myself mentally before the time comes, to increase the chance of staying longer with the idea, not just for a week or two. I figured out it only works if it’s part of some bigger vision, so you understand why you’re doing it, and getting attached to that meaning. If it’s just random – good luck with it. Well, good luck either way, pardon my arrogance.
I am embarking on a journey ‘Keep it simple’ this January. It’s when yes means yes and no means no kind of thing.
How about You?
04/01/2022
BALLYCOTTON, EAST CORK, IRELAND
'If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere'
is one of my favorite quotes of an eclectic Irish writer Seamus Heaney. Sounds like a promise, doesn’t it? haha
Wishing You January of quiet inspiration, milk and honey.
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As a modern culture we are rapidly replacing traditional mail delivery with alternatives. We are transitioning between customary means of communication and digital and social media methods. Perhaps the latter is more economical, convenient and faster, but what we may be forgetting (and I beg you don’t say ‘don’t care about’) is the actual tactile connection between writer and reader, those two kindred souls.
I adore this connection.
I enjoy holding the same physical material that the sender touched. I enjoy discovering the additional meaning invisibly attached to it. But perhaps most of all, I am grateful to be reminded of the importance of taking a moment to share your heart with someone else every day. It is vital to stay soul-connected, for that is the one truly meaningful connection there is, in my eyes.
These ideas have inspired me to create this delicate and affordable art.
I wish for these postcards to find new life in your hands. I wish that you’ll send them travelling to multiply kindness and joy around our beautiful planet by supporting one another through this challenging but wonder-full journey that is Life.
This is just one way of making a world a better place.
