#weekend nicotine

[theonlycrystalfaye]

"He’s going to let me document when he comes over. Take frames of this event as it unfolds. Maybe it’ll help me to make sense of it." All the photos for this book were shot on film. This medium seemed like a natural choice as it offers a more personal, gritty, quality over digital. When you shoot film you have to think, have to really consider what it is you're wanting to capture before that shutter clicks. Then, once it does? You don't quite know what you have until the magic of developing takes place. For my photos? I used a mix of color and black & white, 35mm and instant films. It helps to solidify the raw,volatile feelings of the story. It helps to illustrate those little moments. "I'll kidnap this portion of him, just this moment.....I’ll kidnap moments, because that's all I'll get to keep with him." The images are married to the text, and what a beautiful union it is.

[theonlycrystalfaye]

This book wasn't supposed to happen. Over the summer of 2015 I just started writing. Nothing much, a word here, a paragraph there. Then came September, and I realized I had a story. A book involving two diverse characters. They start off crossing paths and end up connecting, having their time together. A time when the stars themselves collided and the energy stretched out and consumed them. And when the noise from that event settled down, you can hear the slight sound of their passion snapping. "In the silence that followed I heard all my old fracture lines re-open and shatter on the carpet." That's what this is about. Not romance. Not "boy meets girl". Not sex. It's simply about the little moments when you're most alive, and what it's like to share them with someone else. To truly let someone in. This is "Weekend Nicotine". "I want you to remember this moment. Because this is one of the few moments when I felt alive."