“If it was easy everyone would do it” my lover and partner, Sovereign says. To herself, to friends, and to me when the going gets tough. It’s one of my favourite things that that quotesmith comes up with.
Sov and I are about to reunite after about a 5 week stretch of time away. The time was used for us both to develop personal and common work projects (including Darling House) and also, if I may, meditate, regroup and focus what it is we’re doing, what we love, what we love about each other, and how to forge ahead in creating together.
If I’m being candid, the amount of time apart hasn’t been easy– but like a diet or cleanse perhaps, it has been really useful to clear away some cobwebs and remind ourselves what is good about each other:
We dream big and create richly together.
This has always been the case and it’s a rare and wonderful touchstone to base a partnership on, I feel. From the moment we found each other (here online, strangers) to the second I flew her to me, sight unseen, one thing has been constant: we share a vision, a flavor of qualities we care about in storytelling, image making and to large degree, life experiencing.
Any partnership can have it’s ups and downs and, to boot, making art, meaninful art, is hard. But it’s honourable and passionate and exciting. Plus we fuck real, real nice and pretty.
We have a strong electical current of a connection: when not plugged in properly chaos sometimes ensues, but when the plug fits snugly in the socket if you will, we use that force for good. Sexy, sexual good. The kind of create output other people will benefit from.
In addition to our reuniting, it’s just about our 2nd year anniversary. Time flies. This has been on my mind too.
I wanted to share with you probably the very first photo I took of her the morning after I picked her up at JFK. She had blue hair then and a Marilyn piercing. I sorta miss those:)
I’m not sure I’ll keep this post up long, it feels a little too personal but in this pocket of time I wanted to share that dreaming big and making visions manifest is indeed hard, but there is payoff. Big payoff. Who wants to be mundane? And, as Sov says: “If it was easy everyone would do it”
And mothahfuckah, we’re not everyone.
See you soon, Dollface.
Joshua
Beautiful words and image, as always. You’re not only an extremely talented photographer but also an incredibly skilled writer. I always enjoy reading your blog posts!