Digital paint on original photographs. Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut and Stephen Chbosky. Made with Corel Painter & Adobe Photoshop.
Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that, a story.
They were doing their best to live like the people in storybooks.
She protected herself by refusing to know herself.
He realized he had no control over how he was perceived.
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
She didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.
I wanted to give up the idea I had any control.
She realized she was not the same person she was before, and she was deathly afraid she would never be her again.
First she asked herself what it was she wanted. Then she did what she had to do.
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
We stop looking for the monsters when we realize they are inside of us.
Nothing of me is original. I'm a combined effort of everyone I have ever known.
Looking for who I am is what I am.
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
I never met a man I would rather be, and even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
Where we're standing now, in the ruins, in the dark, what we build could be anything.
We can spend our lives letting our past decide our future, or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.
Who are we, but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.
