Amanda Shopa

Week 28 of 209 Weeks: “I can do anything for [specified amount of time]. You can do anything for [specified length of time].” Photo Notes: This photo was taken using x-ray film. The film gives everything a soft light. Taken May 2025.

Week 27 of 209 Weeks: “And I thought to myself: No, this world is not a joke, not a vale of ordeal only and a passage to a better world, but one of the eternal worlds, which is good, joyful, and which we not only can, but must make finer and more joyful for those…

Week 26 of 209 Weeks: “Celebrate we will because life is short but sweet for certain.” –Dave Matthews Band, “Two Step” Photo Notes: This photo was taken on a special type of x-ray film. The film has a soft, diffuse light look. Taken in May 2025.

Week 25 of 209 Weeks: “You do not have to be good.” –Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese” Photo Notes: This photo was taken on a special type of x-ray film. The film has a soft, diffuse look. Taken in May 2025.

Week 24 of 209 Weeks: “Do what you can to show you care about others, and you will make the world a better place.” —Rosalynn Carter Photo Notes: Seoul, South Korea, May 2024

Week 23 of 209 Weeks: “You can talk a great philosophy, but if you can’t be kind to people everyday, it doesn’t mean that much to me.” —Ani DiFranco, “Looking for the Holes” Photo Notes: This photo was taken at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in May 2025. The film, Washi F, is an x-ray film. It…

Week 22 of 209 Weeks: “My candle burns at both ends;/ It will not last the night; /But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—/ It gives a lovely light!” —Edna St. Vincent Millay “First Fig” Photo Notes: This bonfire photo was taken at Pacem in Terris’s bonfire weekend in February 2025.

Week 21 of 209 Weeks: “I am pulling the voices of people I desire and love and trust and worry over into me.” —Saeed Jones, “My Project 2025” Photo Notes: This photo was taken in the courtyard of my grandmother-in-law’s house in Jinju, South Korea in May 2024.

Week 20 of 209 Weeks: No dejarte dominar por el miedo. Translation: Don’t let yourself be ruled by fear. Photo Notes: This carved lion, made out of a large chunk of wood, was found at a garden center sort of store (or maybe a landscaper?) in Seoul, South Korea in May 2024.

Week 19 of 209 Weeks:‘Tis not in the high stars alone,Nor in the cup of budding flowers,Nor in the red-breast’s mellow tone,Nor in the bow that smiles in showers.But in the darkest, meanest thingsThere alway, alway something sings. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Music” Photo Notes: Taken at a state park maybe? (I need to take better notes!)