About

Faith In A Jar is a collection of freelance photography done by myself, Neo Jasmine Mokgosi. I work with various people, places and organizations and takes pictures for use in promotional posters and events, magazines, newspapers, websites, professional commercial and private use.
I am a freelance photographer and blogger who is interested in documenting and promoting art, music, fashion and youth culture; currently based in Cape Town, South Africa, originally from Gaborone, Botswana, looking towards the rest of Africa and abroad. I am currently studying a BA in Brand Building and Management at Vega School of Branding in Cape Town as well as experimenting with audio-visual, producing, directing and editing hoping to create a fuller, more experiential media interaction.
For more info, inquiries or bookings email: faithinajar@gmail.com
All photos on this blog are © 2014-2010 Neo Jasmine Mokgosi.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

ShadowLands

Blessed be the light, and lack thereof, when they dance.


The shadows live amongst us in silence
stretching and shrinking as our solar systemical bodies dance with the light.


the shadows live amongst us in silence.


stealing animation from our bodily wanderings


where do they go when we cannot find them?


where do they go when i cannot find them?


Do they join the shade?


Do they become the darkness that paints my paranoid nights?


Does she sit under me now?
Quietly biding her time,
waiting for any chance of light
that she may live


she clings on for dear life


I am her life source,
her sculptor


i am the form to her function



i am the shape to her form


I am the body to her shape


I am the name to her body.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Falling In love With Strangers

Blessed

I saw your face in a crowd and didn't know that I had found what i'd been looking for since I knew how,
and wow, you were phenomenal.




You made me feel like the cherry on top of a monumental cake
with sparklers
and candles
and sprinkles
and cream.



I felt beautiful,
delicate yet strong, and loved.
I felt you look at me, hold my hand, kiss my cheek.
I felt you smiling with your heart and saw the truth of you in your eyes.
It was magical, almost too fantastical for real life, I don't know if it was a dream, or a wish come true, a genie with some tricks and giant sleeves, or god answering my prayers for real soulful company.




I felt warm in the glow of your light, you were sure and easy.
Happy.
No, content.
No, ecstatic, but calm.
You were that sunset glorious from the edge of the world, and I want to chase your golden hours across continents.
You were the first sign of light after a night that seemed to last forever.
You were a toasted marshmallow, a grape gum drop, and an incredible ride home.
You were a warm shower, a hot meal, a soft bed.
You were murmering in your sleep, innocently reaffirming my dreams of conquering the world, of changing the scope and scale of things and you were honey sweet.
You were home, you were naturalsunlight.
You were air,
you were shade,
you were bliss.
You were my own personal brand of heroin.
My own personally designed mind explosion, with electric touch.
You were a mountain of trust,
my trampoline,
my safety net,
my knight in shining amour,
my lover from another galaxy,
my intergalactic parrallel universe meant to be kind of glow,
with a bit of a shine, ooh, when you smiled. =)


I didn't want you to let me go.
I didn't want to leave you.
I wanted to wake up next to you forever.
I wanted to run away and start a kingdom of love together.
I wanted to pick your brain on picnics and pass time post pleasure.

You were fleeting, a one in a million chance meeting, you were there, then there, never here, but somehow everywhere, and I feel like i'll find you somewhere, elsewhere, where we have all the time in the world.

I want you to infinity and beyond.
I want your smoke in my lungs and your juice in my mouth.
I want to know every part of your being,
I want to kiss your eyes open in the morning.
I want to build a tribe with you,
craft shrines with you,
share all of mine with you.

I want eternity.
I want tea,
I want the moon in a cup
I want to kiss the stars in your eyes.
I want to swallow you whole.

I want more of you.
I want all of you.

I want to see baby pictures of you and meet your crazy cousins.
I want to play on the neighbourhood where you grew up and climb trees with you and roll down hills with you.

I want to eat live breathe love you.

I want you to stay this far away so my mind can remain clear.
I want you to stay far away so I can't drown myself in your oasis of bliss.

I want you
Now.
Now I want you,
I want you want me want us to touch.
I want more.
I want to wait for more =)

Sunday, May 8, 2011