Amaya Shen

Introducing a film by one of my favourite directors, Ingmar Bergman: The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet) Or a meditation on the infinite (faith) whilst being a finite being Or finding redemption on the way home The setting: a crusader awakes washed ashore, he meets Death, and makes a gambit: a challenge with Death to a game…

Felt the urge to share this as I found myself listening to this old classic again 🎶💕🙌✨ Áspri méra ke ya mas/ ‘there will be better days, even for us’ by Agnes Baltsa Hope everyone is having a lovely week! X Serena

I wrote this the night after my last hour at the Doll House, I have only gotten around to posting it now, so here it is. A love note, not an adieu.

The New Zealand International Film Festival has started! I am definitely a cinephile, and always find myself watching a few of its selections each year. Here are my picks for this year’s viewing: More of my picks…First Reformed dir. Paul Schrader, The Guilty dir. Gustav Möller,  Happy As Lazzaro dir. Alice Rohrwacher, Kusama – Infinity dir. by Heather Lenz, Piercing dir. Nicolas…

Our lives are just one moment, A breath imagined by the senses. And that moment is a great thought. And that thought is a desire, The urge to being and to be love. All at once, altogether, the same. — Duane Michals, The Nature of Desire (1986)

More photos to be added to my gallery soon –tomorrow maybe? ❤️ 🌄💖 Ciao for now, Serena

This morning, Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, an American classist and poet. Translating shards of what survived and remain of Sappho’s work, Carson has created something truly wondrous….one of my favourite books ❤️

17 songs for you: happy sunday, X Serena

The desire of the eyes is natural; to impetus to look is basic, to cast our eyes outwards and caress with a gaze, to fold and enclose images underneath our lids. The eye is one of the sense organs that the majority of humans depend on heavily; of all the senses, it is one of…

What a charming, sexy and frankly –incredibly hot, Friday I had. Thank you gents for spending your time with me, I’m a lucky lady and I’m grateful! Wishing everyone a wonderful long weekend💗 X serena