Vincent's Yellow

a[n] [auto]biography and a love story.

A Walk in Arles

No one is quite sure what brought you to Arles. You wanted to go south, Vincent, away from Paris, and something drew you to this town. Perhaps it was what Michelet wrote about the beauty of the arlesienne, the women of Arles, but that was not what you would encounter here. Although the walls are […]

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Mon, November 30 2009 » Photo entries, Popular Culture, Travel » 2 Comments

A cabin

What I think is the best life, oh without even the slightest shadow of a doubt, is a life made up of long years of being in touch with nature out of doors — and with the something on high — unfathomable, ‘awfully Unnameable’, because one can’t find a name for it — above that nature. […]

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Thu, November 5 2009 » Personal, Research » 4 Comments

Auvers: Part 3

One of the things that Vincent and I have in common is a love of old things.  The worn, the rusted, the aged – that which many people find messy or ugly – is beautiful to me because it speaks of the time that has passed, the character of a place, the history of what […]

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Mon, November 2 2009 » Personal, Photo entries, Research, Travel » 2 Comments