I learned how to forgive on a dry, windy and pleasantly warm afternoon in Taos, New Mexico. I had recently turned 24 and I was preparing for my first …
4.5.11 Photographing Vulnerable, Fierce and Exquisite Beauty
I started choreographing dances when I was 8 years old on the sandy arroyo bed outside of my familia’s palapa, our hut. I would rally with …
3.25.11 Photographing Authentic Purpose & Sacred Beauty
{scroll to the bottom for image gallery} It can be said, I say from personal experience, that after one feels the swift brush with Death the colors …
3.09.11 Photographing The Place of my Second Chakra Freedom Dance
People assume a lot of things about me. I would say a lot of it is inaccurate. I have heard that because I appear flirtatious and sensuous, …
2.20.11 A Story about a Man in the Desert
He sets out in his walker with his hunting rifle strapped to his back and tied to his body with a white string resembling a long shoelace… With one …
2.19.11 Photographing Magic and Me and Love
When you find yourself living in a Mexican village in the middle of nowhere with no electricity and it’s the 80ies, whoever has a good ghetto-blaster is …
2.8.11 Photographing The Medicine-Dance
Seyla Rodriguez hated me and I was determined to make her love me. It was 1989 and I had brought back from El Norte (the …
1.27.11 Photographing The People who Make Me Jade Beall
Have you noticed that when you like someone, I mean when you really really like someone, you may start to laugh like, walk like or dance like …
1.5.11 Photographing Dancing Asana
I have started up my Mysore Yoga practice again. For those of you who don’t know what Mysore is, I’ll give you the briefest of …
1.3.11 Photographing The Inside of My Heart
It was when Marty and Karen yelled into the canyon below us, “tenemos medicina, tenemos agua (we have medicine, we have water),” at the top …
1.2.11 Photographing A Tribe Called Love
Had my mother not made the choice of moving to Yelapa, I would have lived this entire life without having been best friends with Yeni …
1.1.11 Photographing The One on the Inside
I am passionately in love with myself, but it has not always been this way for me. I have always loved to dance, but I have …