Pure Nowhere

why i’m still creating in quarantine (from athena)

an artist’s experience of isolation - Athena takes us inside her world with thoughts on creating in quarantine, honesty in work, and human connection <3

Dear YouthKyla RainApril 17, 2020dear youth, quarantine, isolation, iphone notes Comments

THIS HURTS. (queerness, mortality, youth and obsession)

I fear age and I panic to immortalise my friends, my relationships and current youth. I fear isolation, I fear not living a good enough life, I fear the guilt I’ll feel if I do live the fullest life because some don’t have that fortune. I fear I’m driving myself to madness.

Photos, Dear YouthKyla RainApril 4, 2020photo gallery, dear youth, film, 35mmComment

Small Joys, Quiet Towns

There is always an exuberant joy to be found in the colour of the sky and the connection with the people around me. My Nowhere is not a transient state — it’s just off the map.

Photos, Dear YouthZophia DadlezJanuary 10, 2020film, 35mm, photo journal, dear youth, adventure, Featured SliderComment

Scanning Negatives & Meditating on the Illusion of Youth

We’re all nearing or in our mid-twenties, and it’s like this feeling of change has settled over our group. Like something’s coming to an end.

Friends, Strangers and Me

Three months, five cities, many strangers, many friends, and me.

Photos, Dear YouthZophia DadlezJuly 31, 2019dear youth, film photography, 35mm, Featured SliderComment

honey love (3 poems from mhari's upcoming book)

It is like a scrapbook filled with people, lessons, the sad times, the good times, art that I’ve created and collected, and art that was given to me.

Dear Youth, Poetry, FriendsAbby StrangwardMarch 26, 2019poetry, dear youth, Dear Youth (3)Comment

Einveru; Handpoked

Omari Kirk’s been tattooing since his early teens, but he only figured out his love for hand-poked tattoos about a year and a half ago. Since then, he’s dived head-first into the art form, dropping out of high school and travelling all over America to ink the bodies of friends and strangers alike.

Dear YouthAbby StrangwardMarch 25, 2019Interview, Omar Kirk, tattoo, tattoos, dear youth, Dear Youth Interviews, InterviewsComment

Annoyed.

Oh, you can’t show cleavage because that’s whorish and are craving attention from every male. No, I just want to wear this or show cleavage because I can. I don’t think there needs to be a further reason than simply wearing what you want to wear and not having to worry about how others perceive you.

PhotosKyla RainFebruary 27, 2019photo journal, photography, moodboards, dear youth, Photos (2)Comment

everyone gets drunk and makes mistakes, right?

I never even considered that I had a problem, because well, this is just what everyone is doing, right?

Dear YouthKyla RainFebruary 25, 2019drinking, adolescence, dear youth, Dear Youth (3)Comment

At 18 my grandma was driving 5 minutes North to Michigan to get drunk (a poem)

At 18 my mom was recently married children on the way / The home that she grew up is not the same as mine / The leisure they were given has never crossed my mind.

Dear Youth, PoetryKyla RainFebruary 23, 2019poem, poetry, dear youth, growing up, 35mm, CULTURE CATEGORY, Dear Youth (3) Comments

everything I wish I'd said in my college interviews

This is more for me to know that someone besides myself understands what I was trying to talk about, which points I was trying to hit, because if someone knows then maybe I didn’t mess everything up, maybe I didn’t waste their time because I had something to say.

Dear YouthKyla RainFebruary 18, 2019college, college interviews, dear youth, CULTURE CATEGORY, Dear Youth (3)Comment

Dear Samia

a love letter to a musician, a best friend, a soulmate.

Dear YouthKyla RainJanuary 28, 2019CULTURE CATEGORY, Samia, 35mm, love letter, dear youth, Dear Youth (3)Comment

Break The Stigma

There is no shame in knowing what you need and taking action to help yourself get better…Choose to break the stigma and expand your understanding. Mental illness isn’t a choice, but stigma and ignorance are.

Dear YouthKyla RainJanuary 28, 2019mental illness, stigmas, mental health, dear youth, Dear Youth (3) Comment

Tạm Biệt Hà Nội - A Photo Journal

From the beginning of this trip I knew that I could either wallow in self pity over the fact that I don’t have a home here anymore, or I could embrace gratitude for the chance of being able to visit Hanoi for the last time in a long time.

I chose the latter.

Photos, Dear YouthKyla RainJanuary 13, 2019Ha Noi, Vietnam, photo journal, 35mm, living abroad, film photography, CULTURE CATEGORY, dear youth, Photos (1)Comment

An open letter to my younger self

The world is yours, take care.

Dear YouthKyla RainDecember 9, 2018CULTURE CATEGORY, dear youth, letter, Dear Youth (3) Comments