Author Archives: jenny olsen

About jenny olsen

My work is a meditation on the dark memories found in the face of familiar places-dreams and nightmares captured in black and white-a visual fairytale....

Winter Fingers, Spring Dreams (#2)

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“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.”

 

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Winter Fingers, Spring Dreams (#1)

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Dewdrop, let me cleanse
     in your brief
sweet waters…
These dark hands of life

-Basho

 

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Under the Influence

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I am damaged, I’m not broken.
I am a spirit, who’s scream is soft spoken.

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Certain Dark Things

 

 

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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

-Pablo Neruda

 

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