"You are going to be okay. You are...despite the way the world has failed to protect the tenderness that you are, despite the way it has clawed at the light within, despite the pain, despite the ache, despite all that has conspired to weigh down the soul of you - you are still here...Something deep inside of you kept going...something deep inside of you always will. Trust in that." - Bianca Sparacino

"In a world of emojis, she is calligraphy." - j. iron word

Some days she's dark; some days she's light. No matter what, she's always true; she's always her - that you can trust. Her soul is dark with shimmers light, her heart black stained with crimson tears, her mind shattered but always sense. She holds madness in one hand and peace in the other, each as much a part of her as her smile, or tears, or eyes that look through your soul. She can hide with the best of them, assumptions and impressions all the world once knew of her, until she chose to share herself, and in her vulnerability let slip too much, the truth behind the mask now seen: The love behind the distance, empathy behind the cold, pain behind the indifference, an aching beyond the loneliness that she rarely sets free. There is a soul unlike any other, an oxymoron complete, for she is as she is not, a complexity few will - if ever - understand. Both woman and girl, enlightened though innocent and anything but, a soul forever young even as it has lived lifetimes; a Gemini is she, but so much more than can ever be explained by words. She just simply is and will always be. Me.

Words: © Rosie Chee

Photographer: Tony Mitchell

"Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain..." - Bob Dylan

Beauty and pain go hand-in-hand. Like happiness and vulnerability. Live life unexpected but full of promise. Let the world see your wings, fragile as they might sometimes feel, for they have strength you yet do not know. Keep your heart, because even breaking means you feel, and if you do not feel you cannot truly live. I have learned this. Let what might break you make you. Exquisite pleasure plunged into darkness. Yet even in darkness there is light and that is where it shines the brightest. Where you do; turning tragedy into triumph, ashes into diamonds, soul finally truly free.


Words: © Rosie Chee​

Photographer: Tony Mitchell

Sometimes shattering who we were is the only way to discover who we truly are and what we are capable of. It's not just about being destroyed, but about seeing the beauty in the destruction, embracing the fall and unconsciously creating ourselves so that when we hit the bottom there is no doubt that what will be rebuilt will be nothing like what was. Even if not every shattered piece is part of the new creation and those that are form different art because of how they now fit together, what eventually stands, though it might be unrecognizable to some, will be and is nothing but truth, stronger despite vulnerability, beauty in the broken, light cast through the cracks, illuminating the soul inside. Evolution. Art. Inspired.


Words: © Rosie Chee​

Photographer: Carley Patmythes

It is not always going to be easy. You are going to love, and you are going to hurt. But it does not end there. Your story does not end with the pain, or the heartache, or the loss. That is only another beginning. Another beginning of learning to let go, of understanding that not everything and everyone you love is meant to last your lifetime. Every love has a lifetime in our own, even if it is brief, and each one changes us in ways we might never have imagined before we lived it. We have to remind ourselves to remember the love and the beauty of it, for it was real to us, and that means something. But we have to make ourselves leave it alone when it is time to go, for if we do not, then we only hurt ourselves. And ultimately, love is not meant to hurt, but to help us change and grow and bloom into more than we are. That is what we have to remember. That we do not have to always be hard, and that sometimes it is our vulnerability that first allows us those most precious moments of beauty. It is in our softness that we learn to love, when we take off our armour and let ourselves be seen for the soul within. And those who truly cherish that soul will not seek to break it, but encourage the strength within to be the light that seeps out, so that armour no longer needs to be worn.

© 2017 Rosie Chee​

Photographer: Carley Patmythes

I would love to run
away with you and start off
over somewhere new

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee

Art by: Robert Jahns

I won't let the stain
of tears darken the fire of
the light of my soul

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee​

Art by: Daniel Taylor

Stuck inside my head,
the world spins, you disappear;
left alone again

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee

Art by: Daniel Taylor

An honour to be
your first love; even greater
to be your last too

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee

I'm so determined
to stay away, but I can't -
You're an addiction

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee

Art by: Gunther von Hagens

She's a different
kind of beautiful. Her own
definition of.

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee

Missing the person
you love is the loneliest
feeling in the world

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee

Art by: Daniel Taylor

You were just a dream -
brief, beautiful emotion;
now I must wake up

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee

It's funny what goes
through your mind when you cannot
fall asleep at night

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee

Art by: Robert Carter

You make me feel more
alive than any ever
before in this world

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee

Art by: Martin Fernandez Alicia

Disconnect, to put
myself back together, find
strength to walk away

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee

She could have them all,
but she doesn't want them all -
that's her difference

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee

Art by: Daniel Taylor

My mind: A broken
kaleidoscope that cannot
ever seem to stop

Haiku © 2017 Rosie Chee

Art by: Archan Nair