Etsy Shop for InkandLight

That Sinking Feeling...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:17 -0500

$25.00
That Autumn the trees were laden with fruit, each one bitter and hollow, the cakes made from them needed ladles of sugar, and still they caused dreams so deep and murky that even the bravest feared drowning...

Original photograph bathed in golden autumn light; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Washed Up...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:17 -0500

$25.00
Every evening, as the waves lapped in, stray apples would wash up on the beach and the horizon would tilt a little more off balance...

Original photograph bathed in early autumn sea light; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Rose Tea

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:17 -0500

$25.00
Drink tea in times of trouble, plant peonies for protection and roses for love, let light in and bees out and always take heed to the signs in your cup...

Original photograph bathed in golden spring light; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Elysian tea

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:17 -0500

$25.00
Drink tea, before bed with milk and honey, tell the bees, breathe in the late summer light and rest safe from time a few minutes longer...

Original photograph in golden summer tones; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included

heaven in a wild flower...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:17 -0500

$25.00
That May the air turned hazy, and as the boats set out the forget-me-not wove itself through the grass, little pieces of sky fallen to earth, a sure sign of a love to be lost...

Original photograph in soft summer hues, printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included

Time

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:17 -0500

$25.00
Store wishes and truths in jars, between the jams and the tea, for those worst of days...

Original photograph in golden summer tones; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Grey Lady

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:17 -0500

$25.00
and so she waited, taking her tea each morning and looking for a change in the leaves, but it had been there all along something dark green and deep...

Original photograph in summer greens; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Love Notes

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:17 -0500

$25.00
He left notes for her in the oddest of places...

Original photograph in light summer tones; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Summer Gold

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:17 -0500

$25.00
Original photograph in deep summer greens and gold; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Afternoon Tea...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:17 -0500

$25.00
Original photograph in early summer tones; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

La vie en Rose...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:16 -0500

$25.00
That was the year she planted the roses. At least three per meter. Each one so vigorous it could have taken over the cottage wall all by itself. She planted thirty. So closely packed she could have climbed to the sky. Or perhaps she thought they would wrap around the house, that they would close off the windows and doors, choke out the sunlight like a weed and time would last a little longer...

Original photograph in pink and champagne light; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Honeyed Rose

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:16 -0500

$25.00
For weeks the light in the house was golden; a heavy, dark gold and the smell of those roses got everywhere, as if they were in the very walls and under her skin. No amount of lavender and sea salt could shake it just as no amount of drizzle cake could pacify the bees in the garden. All through the following winter the honey for miles would taste of roses and years later women would swear that a honeyed rose would cause dreams of love...

Original photograph in golden tones; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Borrowed Blue

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:16 -0500

$25.00
Always use new pins, old letters and borrow blue from the sky...

Original photograph in soft blue hues, printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Touch Blue...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:16 -0500

$25.00
That north wind tugged at her hair, it pulled at her clothes and unwound the blue in her hem...

Original photograph in cool coast tones, printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

North Wind

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:16 -0500

$25.00
The summer blew out in a gust from the north; it swept through the house slamming doors and rattling the china, it tore those sheets from the line and scattered the flowers. By the time the leaves turned on the trees the fire had turned blue, there was salt in the tea and nothing could be done...

Original photograph in soft coastal tones; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Pearls and Light...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:15 -0500

$25.00
Hold summer close, wear it daily and drink it in...

Original photograph bathed in beautiful summer light; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Red Thread Line...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:37:58 -0500

$25.00
Fairy tales unwound in red...

Original photograph of fairy tales in red; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Swallows

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:37:58 -0500

$25.00
The swallows came late that summer. They circled for weeks before settling in; they were nervous and fidgety, abaonding their first nest. That should have been a sign. Count the swallows flight, stitch blue thread into your hem and stay close to home...

Original photograph in soft blue and gold hues, printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Sleeping Beauty...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:37:58 -0500

$25.00
That was the year she planted the roses. At least three per meter. Each one so vigorous it could have taken over the cottage wall all by itself. She planted thirty. So closely packed she could have climbed to the sky. Or perhaps she thought they would wrap around the house, that they would close off the windows and doors, choke out the sunlight like a weed and time would last a little longer...

Original photograph bathed in golden spring light; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

waiting

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:37:58 -0500

$25.00
Spring washed into summer with torrents of deep-green rain. It beat on the windows and doors and bounced off the paths like broken glass. The house was mostly empty and so the vines were free to creep along the fence, over the walls and into the very bones of the building and there they waited…

Original photograph in early spring tones; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Superstition

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:37:58 -0500

$25.00
Slip a pearl into his pocket, draw a swallow on his foot, hide his boots, fill his bath water with salt, add black pepper to his food, grind peony root and add it to the wash, wrap strands of his hair around oak braches, buy him shirts of sky blue... it won't matter; if she wants him there's no stopping her, you can't argue with the sea...

Original photograph in soft blue hues, printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Lost

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:37:58 -0500

$25.00
As the storms rolled in that spring the apple blossomed early, its fresh scent rose in waves drawing schools of rosy salmon into the shallows, and when they were cut open their bellies were full of bones and buckles, pearls and rings, and lost souls that settled right on the sea green slabs of the harbour. They clung to the salt and seaweed on the men’s boots and travelled home with them, settling in on the garden paths and in the branches of those apple trees...

Original photograph in pearly spring tones; printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Salty Morning

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:37:57 -0500

$25.00
By winter there were water marks on the walls and blue light filtering through every room, and each wavering breath she took was as salty as tears...

Original photograph in soft blue hues, printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.

Theres a storm brewing...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:37:57 -0500

$25.00
all through that summer it rained, deep green, salty rain which fell in sheets so suddenly and so heavy the world became blurred... and so the lost settled in, roosting in the blue china and between the sheets...

Original photograph in soft blue hues, printed on premium archival paper with a lovely matt finish. (Image size approx 8' x 10' )

Narrative printed separately and included.