Early morning on the banks of the Waikato River, Taupo, NZ
“I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
“I have learned to love the sleeplessness that brings me night thoughts, so different from the thoughts of day, and the sharp awareness of Invisible Presences.”— Renée Vivien, tr. by Jeanette H. Foster, from “A Woman Appeared To Me,”
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1622-1625