i can’t get this image out of my head this week, do you know what i mean? this phenomenon used to happen all the time with others’ work, and now it happens with my own, as if i finally have made my own visual vocabulary for the way i feel about being in the world. this week, i have felt beautiful and raw and veiled and dangerous and thoughtful and wildly hopeful and a little bit trapped. it’s all here in this picture, this still life that isn’t still at all, but daring and wistful and so very in between, and not minding it, because at least i am alive, even if i can barely breathe from the onslaught of the life things happening inside me and all around me. how does a person express all the depths of feeling we experience in a given period of time? i don’t really think we ever can, no matter how beautiful the feeling. i am always running out of time to process these things, so i absorb them into my life until they become part of who i am, and then it all pours out later through my lens, when the colors are right or when the lighting reminds me of who i was in a dream or a different moment, or when someone else finally gives me a picture of the way i felt that other time. it’s rather wonderful making art this way, painting my external world with art that heals and reveals my internal world. i am so thankful for the way my camera helps me “be alive” in this mad, fast world that may never have time to know me or to stop and be known. #bykellēsauer #storyofbeing #livemoremagic #feelyourart #theartofslowliving #fashionportrait #bridalportrait #editorial #fashioneditorial https://www.instagram.com/p/B1jbqXADkY6/?igshid=6z33bzglv3vu