DAVID PAYNE 2001

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"When I am not working on modeannex.com, I write literature - books, poems, stories, I take fashion photos, play the classical guitar or think philosophically about the meaning of fashion and literature and being a human being in this difficult world." David Payne

The life of David Payne is an enigma, a enigma far from the world, but which meets reality through writing. Born in Seattle in 1977, he wrote and published his first poem at the age of seven. Through the expanses of the earth, from New York City to San Francisco, New Orleans to Mexico, this man Œaux semelles de vent¹ (With the soles of his feet like the wind) paradoxically found his roots in the voyage. One day, his glance posed on Europe. He then traversed Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and then to France where wearily he rested and remained (his first book to be published was compiled in Paris). Though also a photographer, journalist, a painter, composer, and an entrepreneur, it is by the alchemy of his mastery of writing, the prodigious maturity of his style, that makes him most profound. ³I see myself not as a man, nor as the sky, neither the stars ­ more as ember continuing to glow after the nights and the fires have ceased² He recently said while describing his work.