Shop by Toby Deveson
– West of the Sun –
Black & White analogue photography
“I am the son of the road, my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages.”
Amin Maalouf
“My head is full, mamma.
(Ho la testa piena, mamma)”
Mario Giacomelli
“Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.”
Kahlil Gibran
“...and forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to touch your hair.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Yes, I feel that my soul is bolted into my body and cannot free itself to flee from beaches beaten by the human sea.”
Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
“Images of broken light which dance before me like a million
eyes that call me on and on across the universe.”
Across the Universe by The Beatles
“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could we ever recover from the wonder of it?”
Jeanette Winterson
“If I go insane, please don't put
Your wires in my brain.”
If by Pink Floyd
“Listen,
the snow is falling.”
Listen the Snow is Falling by Yoko Ono
“You road that I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here. I believe that much unseen is also here.”
Walt Whitman
“Don't you know there ain't no devil,
there's just god when he's drunk.”
Heart Attack and Vine by Tom Waits
“Holding a head whose skull I gnawed...I gazed upon the
countryside, the sea; gazed upon sun and firmament.”
Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
“You can't depend on your eyes
when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain
“The only people who see the whole picture,” he murmured, “are the ones who step outside the frame.”
The Ground Beneath her Feet by Salman Rushdie
“I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau
“When you stop inventing reality
then you see things as they really are.”
Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri
“The Edge...there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.
On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
Arundhati Roy
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
“You cannot travel on the path
before you have become the path itself.”
Gautama Buddha from The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
“Photography is not documentary,
but intuition, a poetic experience.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Happiness achieved, I walk.
(Felicità raggiunta, si cammina)”
Mario Giacomelli
“We only see starlight because
all the stars are bleeding.”
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
“Let us live for the
beauty of our own reality.”
Even Cowgirls get the Blues by Tom Robbins
“The curious are always in some danger.
If you are curious you might never come home.”
Jeanette Winterson
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere,
so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
“reality leaves
a lot to the imagination.”
John Lennon
“All the world is made of faith,
and trust, and pixie dust.”
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
“I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways.”
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan
“And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity
that makes you responsible for what you do. ”
The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban