IF YOU'RE GOING THROUGH HELL, KEEP GOING

I started a new series of layered photographs titled, The Sea is Always the Same. Focusing on views of the ocean and various seas instead of land formations like lava fields and faults, I expanded the places I layer from Iceland and California to other countries and cities I have visited. This image is seven layers and includes The Mediterranean off the coast of Mykonos in Greece and Crete, the Puget Sound near Seattle, the North Sea near Knokke, Belgium, Faxaflói Bay near Reykjavík, Iceland, and the Pacific Ocean here in San Francisco. I find the more layers I use, the more the completed images becomes dreamlike or like illustrated recollections.

sansa doesn’t know anything about politics, so why should jon listen to her? she’s witnessed mind games, she’s fell into traps set by littlefinger, cersei, joffrey, and even margaery. that’s all she’s ever done. she has no clue how to run a kingdom, how to treat fellow lords, how to solve conflicts, or anything else. 

jon has not only experienced war, but he’s solved political issues—HUGE issues, mind you. when it came to the freefolk and the watchers warring. jon figured out a plan to solve this issue. it was Jon that brought the two sides together and helped saved lives on BOTH sides. it was jon that helped take away more meat for the WW’s army by letting the freefolk through. two birds one stone.

when it came to the umbers and the karstarks, sansa wanted to punish the children for their father’s traitorous actions. it was jon that saw that doing that would lose the karstark and umber commoner people’s trust/support. jon needs the north united and so he realized they needed karstark and umber heirs alive and leading so he kept them. this move solidified the north remains intact.