"A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

After a much needed year off, I am back to my Photography and creative endeavors. As many of you will know, the senseless frustrations and everyday stupidity that stalks everyone involved in the commercial photography industry is quite a beast to lock horns with. So, after several years of emotional bite marks bleeding away my energy, I walked away in search of better lands and just let the beast find other prey.

This decision left me with one small problem; I create not because I love art for art's sake, but because if I don't channel and allow expression of what I feel inside my life quickly starts to fall apart. My mind can be quite a Three Ring Circus filled with hilarious clowns, exciting acrobats, sticky cotton candy as well as untamed creatures from far away realms of the imagination, nightmarish rides where the light of day seems but a memory and freaks jeer from rusty cages.

When I decided to setup this site I made a promise to myself that these pages will never be a place of lies and only 'my truth' will be allowed. So what in the hell does that mean? It means that as I pursue my most secret desires, wrestle with my most brightest and darkest thoughts and hunt the elusive prey known as 'Evolution of Self' through my photography and artistic blunderings...I will trap (as best as I know how) the process within these pages.

Love...Hate...Divinity...Sacrilege...I will eat of the feast of every experience this life has to offer; and I'll tell you how it all tastes. It should be interesting to say the least, a party of the soul.

And if you are reading these words...consider yourself invited to my party!

Damien O'Riley

PS. I have decided to do a very limited number of model portfolios 'pro bono' in order to rake up some Karma Points with the universe. I have misbehaved a little more than usual so if your are new model and need a portfolio with bite...drop me a line.