Upcoming Shows and Announcements
The opening for the Taos Town Hall and artist's showing will be this coming Tuesday evening, January 19th, 6:30 to 7:30 pm. See you there!
Momentile A Year of Daily Photographs offers the opportunity to document ones life for a whole year, in photos. I accepted the invitation as a way to keep my photo eyes sharp while at home. Usually my time in Taos is spent processing images I have taken while traveling, and organizing shows and sales. Now, with Momentile, I again carry my camera everywhere, and notice that I am more engaged with my Taos surroundings. All sorts of interesting opportunities are presenting themselves since I began this process. You will see the results of this as we journey through this year in photos.
I have been invited to participate in the Santa Fe slideluck pot show event which will take place on December 9th in Santa Fe, NM. It looks like a fun time, and a great way to meet other photographers. Come join in, fellow photographers!
Currently in Taos, I am participating in the artist's show at Town Hall and have three photographs submitted. With it's grand reopening celebration Town Hall is holding, appropriately, a show for the artist of Taos. The opening gala party is still to be announced. Check my blog for dates. Michelle's, at 136-D Paseo del Pueble Norte, has installed a selection of images from the Children of Asia collection, and also sells greeting cards from the One Family collection.
Due to requests I have developed a line of greeting cards taken from the One Family collection of photographs. I have also reintroduced the Terra Angellica line of angel greeting cards and post cards. All greeting cards are printed on archival paper, are of museum quality, and ready to be placed into a 5x7 frame. These cards are currently available through numerous shops in New Mexico and Colorado. There is a link to the greeting card page in the Resources section, to the right, on this page.
This has been a very busy year for me. In February, as winter really set in and all the snow and cold weather became dreary I headed off, with my family, for three months in South East Asia. Perhaps not the best time to be there due to extreme heat, but definitely the perfect time to be away from Taos, New Mexico. Once we were acclimated to being on the other side of the globe, we headed north out of Bangkok. Elephant camps, Thai cooking classes and endless exquisite monasteries, temples and ruins captivated us. It was such a pleasure to be in this beautiful land and taking photographs. We crossed by dugout canoe into Laos and trekked into the rain forest for a bit of treehouse living. There, we had fun zip lining through and mostly above the canapy of the forest. Here it was fresh and cool, with mist clinging to the valleys in the early morning. This was the territory of the very shy gibbon monkey. At dusk and in the early morning we heard their singing, as we sat in our treehouses sipping tea and chatting with other travelers. One morning, in the dark, we zipped out to a central platform and waited silently for the gibbons to come through. After about 20 minutes, perched high above the rain forest, we saw the trees and bamboo groves bending over just below us and suddenly about 30 gibbons appeared, swinging gracefully and quietly from tree to tree. Two days by river boat on the Mekong brought us to the world heritage town of Luang Prabang, just in time for the Asian new Year. This is celebrated with hourly activity in the temples and daily, endless water fights. It was dangerous to be on the street in the afternoons, when everyone was at the mercy of happy water touting people. This custom began as a desire to give blessings to passerby's but has turned into a more playful event with many people being doused by dumping a bucket of water over anyone who is foolish enough to be on the street. From Laos, we headed into Cambodia. Returning to Angkor Wat was something I had been waiting for. Six days in Siem Reap was hardly enough time to revisit so many temples, but we did very well, in spite of extreme heat. My favorite temple is the Bayon Temple with it's many towers carved with beautiful female Asian faces on the four sides. We returned to Thailand and enjoyed the coolness of the southern islands, close to Malaysia. Sumatra and Lake Toba was our next stop. We lived with the joyous Batak people who's singing reminds me off the African Hill Tribe singing. For our first trip to Bali we opted on a 24 day stay in a lovely temple guest house in Campuan, on the edge of Ubud. (Information for guesthouse: Pager Guesthouse Telephone: (0361) 975433, speak with Ketut) From there we made endless sojourns into rural Bali. That visit was definitely a highlight of our trip. I really enjoyed the people, the colorful traditions, and the sweetness of the people. After a brief and lovely stay in Java, with a visit to Borobudur and Prambanang, I headed back to Bangkok and then home.
Coming back from Asia in June, I was quickly thrown into the flurry of summer gallery shows. The One Family collection at Morgan Stanley, comprising of forty world photographs, came down after a very successful show. In Taos, the Children of Asia selection was installed, as part of a TAO group show named Light. Color. Expression, at the People's Bank. Concurrently, in Santa Fe, the expanded One Family collection went on display at Body. In the fall, the Taos art scene really revs up. In September TAO (Taos Artist Organization) held it's second annual studio tour, which I participated in, and Taos Invites Taos again held it's annual artist's show in downtown Bataan Hall, where I also submitted one piece.
With your purchase of any photographic image, a donation is made to Seva Foundation and DreamTree of Taos. I am pleased to participate in supporting these fine organizations with my time, images and donations, due to their integrity and the tremendous work they do. I am grateful for the wonderful, and much needed work that they do, in Taos, and all over the world.There is a link to these organizations in the Resources section, to the right, on this page.