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  • 'flying hippo' chipped paint natural art
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  • Trick or Treatyours truly
  • Congolese coastline natural sand art
  • Rainy season in Kinshasa
  • the nails, apple, hand gesture ... i wonder how the knock sounds ?
  • mother nature
  • private aspen grove ~ telluride
  • les amoureux
  • my everything ... soulmate, son, sea and sun
  • Rio Plata ferry crossing from Buenas Aires to Montevideo
  • Window of Souls ... Prague
  • Prague
  • light, air, color continuation
  • sand portraiture
  • Atelier immersion ... finished a seahorse trio ... check it out in the metal sculpture section ... even added a baby in 3D ...
  • last weeks NO ELECTRONIC TIME been back in the atelier ... creating a seahorse family trio ... hopefully mama y papa will be finished in a few more days ... stay tuned ;)
  • Chao Praya River channeling Picasso
  • light, air, color continuation
  • papillon du monde
  • Just one of those double exposure days ~ reflecting on the past, anticipating the future while breathing in the NOW
  • View of the earthy Congo River from my Kinshasa terrace looking towards Brazzaville ... sometimes the light in rainy season is beyond magical
  • Où sont les frites ?!?!?!?
  • Lake Taupo, New Zealand ... must go back to kiwiland, maybe even live there !!
  • only in Greece .... drying octopus in Nisyros
  • On assignment for the Christian Science Monitor ... one of my top 10 most emotional experiences as a photojournalist to witness His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, expressing his inner giggle outwardly and then moments later greeting ~ blessing Tibetans who made the arduous trek over the Himalayas to meet him in person in McLeod Ganj, India ... the wailing joy ... i can still hear their tears ... a mournful elated melody ringing like the gusting wind ...
  • eternally fascinated by the interplay of light, air, color
  • {quote}To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour ........{quote}i never tire reading Blake's opening lines of Auguries of Innocence and finding 'winks' of eternal form while wandering earth's shores....
  • flight of my spirit ... no prose only action
  • Ever since Muhammed Ali victoriously fought George Foreman in 1974 in Kinshasa, famed by the documentary {quote}Rumble in the Jungle{quote}, boxing became a national obsession among youth wanting to dream beyond their neighborhood streets...photo taken 30 years later in Kinshasa's Lingwala quartier
  • going against the grain
  • i can't believe it is already mid february and i haven't stepped foot into my kinoise atelier ... 2018 collection is purring
  • whiskers
  • chasing the sun ... yet again ... while peeling back those layers and diving into a stream of light...thought...reflection
  • a New Zealand icon, the silver fern, unfolding love's infinite design
  • detail of a mural in Assisi, Italy which caught my eye pursuading me to look beyond the veil of dusk...
  • walking past an abandoned window front in southern France ... my eye just can't resist capturing natural art
  • motherhood ... somehow my quintessential journey that has no beginning or end
  • to my niche of musings and questioning of ALLalways wondered if LIGHT is LOVE thinking about itself ? Or is it as Octavio Paz claims, {quote}light is time thinking about itself{quote} ... which brings to mind, {quote}what premise of thought is at play 24/7 ?{quote} spiritual or material or both or a tertium quid ? concepts laden with various meaning.... i wrote in my latitude zero journal one stifling humid afternoon, after i fell madly in love with a Belgian agronomist deep in the Congolese rainforest ...LOVE is our FREEDOM ... WORK is our PLAYCREATIVITY is our PASSION ... ART is our EXPRESSIONCOLLABORATION is our PSYCHOLOGY --- JOY is our EMOTIONSOUL is our CREATION ... FAMILY is our CULTUREBALANCE is our CREED ... INSPIRATION is our GUIDANCEBEING is our VISION ... BELIEF is our FUTURE +10 years of marriage and my gratitude for his grace, wisdom, tender radical LOVE and PLAY is immeasurable
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