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vicarious;
–adjective
felt or undergone through taking part or imagining in the experience or feelings of another.
trance;
–noun
a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing.
A vicarious trance;
my portrayal of photography.
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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
-Ansel Adams
"I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal."
-Charles Manson
"Nothing new exists under the sun; There's only new ways to destroy what already exists."
-Marilyn Manson
"We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality."
-Judy Garland
"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."
-Syd Barrett
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe
"One person's crazyness is another person's reality."
-Tim Burton
"A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral."
-Maynard Keenan
"I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead."
-Maynard Keenan
"I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom."
-Jim Morrison
"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them."
-Dion Boucicault
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
-Hunter S. Thompson
"Much Madness is divinest Sense—
To a discerning Eye—
Much Sense—the starkest Madness—"
-Emily Dickinson
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
-Henry David Thoreau
“Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don’t share them like they’re the truth.”
-Bill Hicks
"Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics."
-Albert Einstein
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."
-Neil Gaiman
"Everybody has their own opinion, their own ideas of what beauty is."
-Rick Genest
"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."
-Buddha
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
-Max Ehrmann
"For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds."
-Edgar Cayce
"I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect."
-Alex Grey
"Quiet people have the loudest minds."
-Stephen Hawking
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
-Carl Sagan
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
-Gerry Spence
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
-Edgar Allan Poe
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A timeline of progression.
A record of memories.
A collection of photos.
A story.