Magazine: Vogue China
Issue: January 2007
Title: Renaissance
Photographer: Pierluigi Macor
Model: Vlada Roslyakova
Peter, Age 21, New York, NY. Photo by Laurel Golio.The worst saying in the whole world is to “be yourself.” Any kind of change is viewed with suspicion, like, “Wasn’t your hair long?” or “You used to date boys.” As though there’s some responsibility to be how you’ve always been.
Read more of Peter’s story at We Are the Youth.
“I believe that Magic is Art and Art whether it be music, writing, sculpture or any other, is literally magic. Art, like any magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to manipulate words, to change people’s consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or a writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a Shaman.”
- Alan Moore