lyrical beauty...

youth is delicate... it waits for no one. And yet those days wrapped up in carefree idleness and free-spirited adventure leaves us with distant memories that linger like a sweet after taste of something we knew so long ago. Sally Mann captured these nuances of youth and childhood...those fleeting moments of almost inperceptible growth as we shift-shape and change from children into budding teenagers. Many of the portraits are of her own children. My favorite - Night Blooming Cereus, which I find breath-taking, is what lead me to her work... - STYLE NOMAD 1/13/09