I had a 7 page spread in Beauty Handbook and I also was the face of Planet Funk for a couple months...
www.planetfunk.com
Inspirations:
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."-Ghandi
"I paint the invisible. Among us are the invisible–those whose beauty and longing are too intense to look at for more than a moment. So, we avert our gaze and turn, instead, toward the mundane and cosmetic, comfortably numbed by the insignificance of these. But once in awhile, we almost unwillingly catch the eyes of the invisible, who are the tender plants growing in dry ground, and our souls writhe and bend. We are exposed and we don’t want to be. I paint the voiceless, as one of them. I've learned how to look pretty and be quiet. I've bought products to mask my face and skin and cover my lips, and kept my tongue still. As an artist, I celebrate the meek, and their images are my voice."
-Carol Dallas, my mother.
Acts 17:26 says, "He made from one blood every nation..."
"Half the night I waste in sighs
Half in dreams I sorrow after
The delight of early skies
In a wakeful doze I sorrow
For the hands, the lips, the eyes
For the meeting of the morrow
The delight of happy laughter
The delight of low replies"
--Maud
" Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
-William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
"By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown."
-T.S Eliot
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
"Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts"
"What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can."
--Henry David Thoreau
