But if she lost me, I would become extraordinary by vanishing.
“Sylvie was pretty, but she was prettiest when something had just startled her into feeling that the world had to be dealt with in some way, and then she undertook the most ordinary things with an arch, tense, tentative good will that made them seem difficult and remarkable, and she was delighted by even partial successes.”
—Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
Self portrait, Golden Hill, San Diego, CA: 30 June 2011
I Live from the Neck Up, a self portraiture project
Self Portrait, Centennial, CO: 20 January 2010




![There in the thin morning sunlight.
”[…] In retrospect she seemed to have been most happy in borrowed houses, and at lunch.”—Joan Didion, Democracy
San Antonio, TX: 24 April 2011](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loci799p351qmj6xqo1_500.jpg)


