“The day I arrived in Sweden – which was the day of Louise Bourgeois’ death, I was walking down by the water and had to go to the bathroom really badly (the trickling canal wasn’t helping:) – I found a construction site with a porta potty and inside taped to the roof was a news paper photograph of Louise’s spider (attached in the pdf), the sun was shining through the white roof of the porta potty so the article on the opposite side showed through as well – a photograph of a beach in Sweden with the headline Pictures From Forgotten Corners - this double image with the words summed up all of my travels thus far – later I traveled to the Island of Grinda off Stockholm and saved the life of brilliantly white spider that was struggling to stay a float in the lapping shore break by reaching out a broken branch for it to hold onto….I was certain Louise’s spirit was watching.” Text by Dustin Lynn ~ View previous post: “From the Travel Folio of Dustin Lynn.”

Lydia Lopokova was a star ballerina, daughter of a Russian serf, on again off again lover of Stravinsky (he got around apparently), and wife of economist John Maynard Keynes. This one goes out to Ilona….

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“The heroines in Amanda Zackem’s photographs are, by turns, storm-tossed on a sea of blankets, muscular in mid-motion, and supple as cats”

Photography by Amanda Zackem

LOVE BIRDS – ABOARED THE FERRY TO THE ISLAND OF GRINDA, SWEDEN (2010)

OMBRES DES HOMMES – PARIS, FRANCE (2010)

From a series of photographs entitled Brass Tears, filmmaker, artist, and fervent traveler Dustin Lynn captures brilliant images of his solo odyssey from “Barcelona to Morocco, to Cannes, to Paris and ending on the Island of Grinda in Sweden.” More Photos After Jump

“A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds.”