Amy Winehouse 1983-2011 Photograph By Andrew Kendall

 1983-2011

RIP Amy Jade Winehouse 1983-2011                                                     Photograph: Andrew Kendall


Nearly all of what you will hear about this immense talent is "drink and drugs" the "27 Club" "what a waste" etc.  All this does is perpetuate myth and stigma.

While sudden fame can certainly accelerate matters, in thousands of ordinary cases each year,
untreated mental illness = death.  It's been a very sad weekend indeed.

Until The Watch Is Taken From The Wrist

I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist. It is, at the end of the day, the individual moments of restlessness, of bleakness, of strong persuasions and maddened enthusiasms, that inform one's life, change the nature and direction of one's work, and give final meaning and color to one's loves and friendships.

Kay Redfield Jamison, 

An Unquiet Mind (1995)

123/365. When I was driving across Andalucía

123/365. When I was driving across Andalucía, Photograph by ixot.


or actually Öland, Sweden.