Welcome to The Divine Archive

There is a beautiful moment in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, where the windows of New York apartments are small thresholds containing intricate hidden worlds.

On the edge of a New York terrace, Nick Carraway looks out towards a million different windows, becoming a witness to an endless expanse of human life. A ghost-like observer with the knowledge that he knows nothing at all.

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

I often find myself beholden to the same glimmering windows in everyday life, windows disguised as anything guarding the threshold between two realms. A window is a petal, a perfume, a pair of eyes, a word on a page. I see them lined up all around me, and I’m just so excited to crawl inside.

More and more I find that the hidden intricacies of life are revealed to me through these unseen windows. The spiral of a Rose beckons me to another world, a word on a page evokes splendorous sublimes. The more I listen, the more that stories find me.

It has become an endeavour of mine to obtain all the secrets from the other side of these windows. I catch them through my own lens as I see them, and exhibit them in the form of florals, short stories, poems and musings. I store them here, in this ever-growing archive, where I hope to bring the divine into the lives of anyone who encounters it.

I’m so glad that you have found my window. Let this be the start of your endless search.

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I’m Lola, a Bachelor of Arts (English major) graduate from the University of Newcastle, freelance florist / floral business owner, and high school English tutor. I love thorny Roses, Gothic romances, Mary- Janes and Tim Tams. If you would like to enquire about all things divine, please get in touch below.