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Somewhere in these eyes, i am on your side

It will take a while
To make you smile
Somewhere in these eyes
I'm on your side

Street, 5th Avenue near Parsons School of Design, Kodak Potra 400, 120 Film

…

It will take a while
To make you smile
Somewhere in these eyes
I'm on your side

You wide-eyed girls
You get it right

…

— Space Song, Beach House

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Gold is time pretending to be light

In rust,
the past oxidizes into poetry,

gold is time
pretending to be light

Train to White Plains, New York

In rust,
the past oxidizes into poetry,
gold is time
pretending to be light.

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Prada walls

Midtown, Manhattan

Midtown, Manhattan

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Reverence

for the unnamed woman on 6th and Bleecker

She stood still
in a city made of motion —
not posing,
just existing
like silence between the shadow and the aperture

For the unnamed woman on 6th and Bleecker, June 1, 2025

She didn’t look away.

In a city that trains us to avert our eyes — from pain, from truth, from each other — she met the lens with an unflinching softness. This wasn’t about defiance. This was about recognition. The frame became less about capturing and more about being captured — by a moment, by a stranger’s humanity, by the invisible thread between aperture and the soul.

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