Along the way, I’ve lost the ability to be brave. These sentiments reverberate throughout my work and in my choices in life. I’ve succumbed to diluted projections of the world, of others, and what I imagine they would want, instead of yielding to the wave of what it needs to be. I tell myself often: […]
Read moreThe sun beat down on us as we carried our strange array of items to the shore. We were in the deep countryside of Kyoto, so far to the edge that we reached the Japan sea. The water was clear, and at this season it was inhabited by small bobbling jellyfish that beached themselves, creating […]
Read moreWriting by Reylia Slaby Fine Art Photographer From Japan. A list of New Years resolutions for 2022 that explores the creative process.
Read moreOftentimes I sit in a daze, unsure of anything. I sit for hours, days. And yet nothing comes to me. There are no epiphanies, no moments of revelation. Simply, a vast landscape of white sweeps before me, a desolate and rolling mental scene. This is not new. These persistent emotions, although a discomfort, have made […]
Read moreThe ascetic life is appealing to me. As a person who is constantly confounded by life’s daily rituals, to live simply and to have a constant single-tracked routine is one that I dream of. To avoid the mistake of painting myself into a corner of life. As I come into myself late into the evenings, where […]
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A great challenge I face in life is rediscovering the joy within myself. I have often pondered the many mirrors that exist within our singular bodies, and how they reflect back to us. Sometimes they don’t even look like who we perceive ourselves to be, and yet, there they are, staring right into us. The […]
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Dear Japan, First, I want to say that I love you. You were the country where I took my first breath. My lungs filled with your air, and from there I was home. My first tears happened in your hospitals. My cries echoed throughout the hallway and took me throughout my childhood, becoming laughter, then […]
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Where do I start with this beautiful day? Between surgeries and the whole world turning bottom up, this was my first proper Fine Art shoot of 2020. Two weeks (I believe) of planning and making props. I lost sensation at my fingertips from the hot glue gun for making the flowers. But it was […]
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