Sydney Zimelis

Creative Statement

A traveler, not a tourist
--Bad Ass Travelin' Sista= BATS

"She refused to be bored chiefly because she was never boring"-Zelda Fitzgerald

“We must conquer space in order to sanctify time.”- Heschel

Thou mayest . . . Thou mayest do most anything. And the choices you make serve to make you the person you are. The choices you make have an impact on others and on the world.
“There are millions in their sects and churches who feel the order ‘Do thou,’ and throw their weight into obedience. And there are millions more who feel predestination in ‘Thou shalt.’ Nothing they may do can interfere with what will be. But ‘Thou Mayest!’ Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win. . . . A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There’s no godliness there. . . . This is a ladder to climb to the stars. . . . I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed—Because ‘Thou mayest.’”

"our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves"