Ophelia Autumn

Matsuo Bashō in Spanish Summer

Alexis and I are currently pet-sitting in the south of Spain. Watching him jump in the communal swimming pool made me want to write a haiku. As I’m learning and improving my Japanese, I thought it might be fun to try to write it in Japanese. Here is the haiku: プールの日 :アレクシジャンプ水しぶき Romaji pronunciation: Pūru…

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Hey there, If you’ve been following this blog, you know I love to write, explore, take pictures, model… But you might not know I also love to draw and paint! A few words about my art… I guess I’ve always been drawing. I’ve never really had formal training, I just loved drawing from references and…

Bluebell and Luna

When we were in Wiltshire, a month and a half ago, I had planned a complicated music video inspired photoshoot, with changes of scenery, dynamic poses and a text around body image and beauty standards. Indeed, as we carry only backpacks on our nomadic journey since October, I decided not to bring makeup. This is…

Where stories can lead

I moved to London because of stories. I started yoga because of a book. I started parkour because of video games. In summer 2017, I had been living in London for a year and a half and I was at a yoga studio in Camden Town. My tummy had been hurting and I needed to exercise….

Slice of Life

Bluebells in Oxford, UKApril 2018 Hollyhock, Barbican, London, UKJuly 2020 I would wash myself in these pictures of plum trees and apple blossoms, sakura pink, bluebell, green, purple and smooth, all over again, until I’m drowning in petals like guests of Roman emperors, metaphorically – the idea behind art, no, the idea behind reality, without…

Splitting Image – Last Part: Red

The last parts of my short story, Splitting Image, with pictures from Marco Vinagre. As a recap: And now… Splitting Image – 2: Red I step in. Wow! It looks like I’m wearing a new dress! How magical! This one is so red and long and comfortable!

Splitting Image – 2: Black

This is another part 2 (!) of my short story, Splitting Image. Next post will be: the last part 2 and part 3! Read the beginning here: Splitting Image – 2: Black I step in. Oh, why is this tunnel so different than it had looked from outside? So much brighter, I’m not sure if…

Splitting Image – 2: Purple

This is one of the part 2s (!) of my new short story, “Splitting Image”. You can read part 1 here. I hope you’ll like it! Splitting Image – 2: Purple I step in. This is strange. The tunnel is much brighter than it seemed from outside. It looks very sleek, and bends so you…

Splitting Image – 1

This is an illustrated, speculative and auto-fictional, short story! I hope you’ll like it! All the pictures were taken a year ago by Marco Vinagre in Kings Cross, London but coincidentally, my hair looks nearly the same colour today 🙂 Splitting Image – 1 I put my mask on, crawl carefully through the torn, cobwebbed…

The Garden of Worlds

A faint clap of thunderClouded skiesPerhaps rain comesIf so, will you stay here with me? Yukari in The Garden of Words by Shinkai Makoto, from Man’yōshū, Book 11, verse 2,513 1 – The Garden of Worlds, part 1 As the clouds start to gather ominously over me, I walk faster on this forest lane. I…