Artist & Adventurer
Roger Ballen’s work is one of my great inspirations. He has created a fascinating & shadowy universe through photographing the impoverished whites in their rural South African villages. Since the 1980’s American expatriate and former geologist Ballen turned his camera lens onto the insular world of these Shadow Land people. The images feel like walking …
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The art show Saturday October 10th was a love-fest!!! Bless all 21 people who drove 160 miles round trip to represent at the opening. And Thanks to Robert Tomlinson the director of Jupiter Arts Center & Gallery in Centralia, Washington for creating great shows and all the local folks who supported the event as well. …
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Returning home. Where is home? Do you belong to the land you were birthed on, or to your ancestral heritage, or to the past-life influences that weave throughout this incarnation? How can we reclaim our multidimensionality, belonging again to everything as we once knew? I ponder belonging a lot. I am genetically Scandinavian & German, …
I wrote this at the end of 2006 when I had relocated to the southwest. This is the story of how the I was drawn to the place where the Painted Body series would emerge for The Oracle of Initiation deck… When did this journey to the southwest really begin? As with most great …
So back to the story of how The Oracle of Initiation divination deck was created...in 2008 I had made the biggest geographic move of my life {other than a youthful jaunt in Italy} to New Mexico. This relocation occurred six-months before The Painted Body series emerged for the deck. I had been working on the …
"It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you, without a strong rhyme to step to. Think of how many weak shows you slept through, times up, I'm sorry I kept you." I Know YOU Got Soul by Eric B & Rakim How long has it been since you lived within a strong rhythm, …
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Miru Kim: Excavating Beauty & Power through Vulnerability I first saw Miru Kim’s work in December 2007 in Esquire magazine. I had been creating my own series of nudes on the land and felt she was doing something similar, excavating a sense of beauty and power through vulnerability. Her images are gorgeous, and I do …
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Altars as a Way of Life is sharing one of my favorites ways of bringing the power & beauty of reverence into our daily lives. I see altars as visual prayers, focusing intentions and praise on what you value , honor and love. I will offer regular posts of altars I have either created or …
This is the first in a series of posts about women photographers who have used their own bodies as the primary vessels for their artistic expression. The articles will explore what motivated these women to step beyond cultural expectations of the feminine and use self-portraiture to examine identity and relationship through the camera lens. I …
Welcome to my blog! I am so excited and proud that I have moved into the technological age! The postings here will be a way for me to keep you updated about my current work, adventure woman travels, fun and informative workshops and events, my divination readings, other fabulous artist and cool stuff, inspiring spiritual information, and my original divination deck, The Oracle …
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