Hey there, I'm Ali. I'm 20 years old. I love to write and read and draw and paint and listen to music much too loudly, as long as it gets me away from where I am.

 

mymodernmet:

Mike Brodie was 17 years old when he first started hopping freights in 2003. Since then, over the course of several years, the photographer traveled 50,000 miles across the US by any means available—walking, hitchhiking, and train-hopping. His iconic series A Period of Juvenile Prosperity documents the gritty, nomadic lifestyle of vagabonds, hobos, and Brodie’s fellow train-hoppers as they led lives as sordid as they were liberating. 

I am running away but I prefer to call it a strategic retreat.

Tennessee Williams, The Selected Letters: 1920-1945 (via larmoyante)

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dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness—to the extent you have to keep reminding yourself that it happened at all, even though it felt so vivid just days ago—which makes you wish you could smoothly…

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mymodernmet:

Seoul-based artist Jee Young Lee devotes weeks and months to building incredibly elaborate scenes by hand for the sake of taking a single photograph—all without the use of digital manipulation. Confined to the small space of her 360 x 410 x 240 cm studio, she painstakingly constructs every last detail of the set, resulting in stunningly surreal, dreamlike self-portraits.