The name is Tess. I am 18 years old and from Australia. I have no idea how to sum myself up in a few sentences. This blog is my online scrapbook.

Art - in all its forms - is my amniotic fluid. Film, photography, collage, writing, zine-making, installation and theatre are my favourite forms of art. Having a life in which I get to work and experiment with any or all of these forms (but especially film) would be a life lived well. My favourite artists include Jane Campion, Joe Wright, Andrea Arnold, Wes Anderson, Steve McQueen, Lynne Ramsay, Benh Zeitlin, Quentin Tarantino, Danny Boyle, Francois Truffaut, The Coen Brothers, Tim Burton, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Powell and Pressburger, Miranda July, Ingmar Bergman, Edgar Wright, Vera Chytilova, Tim Walker, Eleanor Hardwick, Katie Eleanor, Autumn de Wilde, Petra Collins, Lauren Poor, Mirren Kessling, Sonja Ahlers, Ben Giles, Caitlin Hazell, Ian McEwan, Alice Sebold, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Jeffrey Eugenides, Lionel Shriver, JK Rowling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cormac McCarthy, Beatrix Potter, Annie Proulx, Joan Didion, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, William Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Tom Stoppard, and too many others to name. I told you art was my amniotic fluid.

some FYIs:

• this journal is homosexual/bisexual/pansexual/asexual/heterosexual positive
• this journal is transgender/bigender/genderfluid/agender/non-binary/cisgender positive
• this journal is sexism/racism/heterosexism/cissexism/ableism/slut-shaming NEGATIVE