Loving the Mundane

Romanticize the ordinary aspects of your life because elements that bring function or joy to your life are worthy of acknowledging and appreciating.

Don’t Forget to Rest

We live in a world that is reliant on constant productivity, and sometimes this results in us forgetting to set aside time to slow down and perceive ourselves, as well as those around us, in a more constructive and tender manner. With all that being said, I hope you recognize that outside of what you are able to produce, you are worthy of rest and time to tend to your own needs.

The Notion of Home

Home may represent a great deal of things.

The notion of a home is a physical state or condition—but it’s also a memory and a feeling.

Sometimes it’s temporary, conditional, and unstable—which warrants being left behind and forgotten—perhaps never again to be revisited or reimagined in the future.

Other times it’s safe, unconditional, and nurturing—somewhere safe to bestow and behold you.

Home consists of the places you’ve lived, places you’ve stayed, and places you’d like to go.

Certainly home embodies where you have been, where you are, and where you are headed.

But most of all, home is understanding that you have the capacity to grow and move forward as a person, all while grounding yourself in what anchors your inner child.

Romanticizing Industrial Landscapes

I can’t help but forever romanticize harsh, industrial landscapes. In this photo, Terminal Island almost resembles Tattooine, the fictitious desert planet located in the far outer rims. I firmly believe that beauty can be found in the roughest of places. The best part is you don’t have to look too hard either.

Building Character Development

I would like to think of rust on buildings as a form of developing character overtime. 

More than often I admire old buildings more than I admire newer ones. 

New buildings are modern, sharp, and easily admired, but new things can’t compare to things that have physically touched by time.

An Ode to Urban Structures

Do you ever look at monstrous urban structures and wonder when and how they have come to exist?

Urban cityscapes have their own fabricated-grandeur—yet dystopian sense of beauty. I can’t help but think about the grueling human physical labor and extensive architectural planning that must have taken place in order for us to perceive and utilize what we have today. 

Everything in nature can and might occur effortlessly, but anything that is manmade requires human labor to yield creation and human labor to maintain. Everything created by man has costs and sometimes irreversible consequences. Please don’t forget to take that into consideration. Enjoy what the city has to offer, but please don’t take the everyday privileges we have in this modern world for granted.