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Haven't done composite in a while and a photographer friend of mine got my juices flowing again! Thank God for inspirational friends. :)
Shot this at my first fashion shoot at a workshop on basics of portrait and fashion photography conducted by The Fountainhead Initiative (www.facebook.com/FountainheadInitiative/) with Pritham D'Souza (instagram.com/themetalfarmer).
Model: Veena Singh (www.instagram.com/veenasinghofficial/)
MUA: Surabhi Manoj (instagram.com/surabhimanoj)
Took my brother out for some portraits a little bit ago. He was my first sitter in my "year of portraits".
“What’s one of your biggest challenges?”
“To step into my fullness and really show up as who I authentically am. I’ve felt it’s either not okay, or too much, or too big, or too sensual. As a woman, I feel like the process of diving into my art has also been a healing process of taking off the layers of who I’m not and really finding out who I am.”
(2/3)
"What are you passionate about?"
Awakening. Spiritually and emotionally. Healing. I go to school for consciousness and philosophy. I just came back from a Zen Buddhist style retreat where you sit and watch your thoughts and emotions to help heal what comes up. You sit with all the past traumas and all the stuff that can come up. I had to dissolve a lot of emotional energy. Stay with it until it released. It was a deep five days for me. I’m still in the thick of it, it’s still coming out. But it feels like a gift and a blessing.
(2/3)
“I’ve had 33 jobs before my current one at YouCaring. This is the most loving business I’ve been a part of. The idea that you can actually do good in business and be loving has been affirmed. It’s also the longest I’ve worked anywhere in almost a decade. I’m going on to my 8th month. Maybe for most people that’s not a long time but for me I would know I was on my path and even though I may not have known what I was looking for I knew what wasn’t it. I always think of my mom because she gets nervous about my way of life. She’s like, ‘You quit your job again! You did this! You did that!’ but I’m like, ’Hey, you’re the one who immigrated from a foreign country with 2 kids and no money and no language. You did the impossible. I’m just continuing to explore’.”
(2/2)
“Good to spend time with you sis. I appreciate all the energy you put towards staying connected with me.”
“You’re my brother.”
“True, and I’m proud of that fact. You are extremely mature and emotionally aware.”
“Oh no no, no I’m not.”
“Ok, see what you did there? You deflected that compliment. Lot’s of people have a hard time receiving compliments so that’s normal but let’s try that again. I’m going to give you a compliment again, but this time after I say it, take a deep breath to breathe it in and then say ‘Thank you’.”
“Ok.”
“You are wise beyond your years and extremely emotionally intelligent.”
“…Thank you.”
“You’re welcome. I love you.”
“I love you too.”
(3/3)
“What was a challenge you faced recently that you had to overcome?”
Thinking about what I want to be doing with my time. How I’d like to invest my energy moving into the future, with work, relationships and where I want to live. I like being in San Francisco but the cost is a lot. I’m balancing my desire to be a part of this with what is possible elsewhere. There’s opportunity cost either way. It’s kind of stressful but if I can avoid thinking about the future too much, stay flexible and be open to opportunity instead of trying to map everything out, I’ll be alright.
(2/3)
“What’s one of your favorite things about him?”
Her - “His laugh.”
Him - “She likes my fart noises too.”
(2/3)
“What’s one of your favorite things about him?”
“I would have to say there's a couple things about him that are my favorite. One is that we're both Red Celestial Dragons on the Aztec Calendar- it's a rare powerful kind of cosmic love. The Toltecs are shining down on us. And of course his humor - that's what really first caught me - he always can make me laugh no matter what.”
(3/3)
“My mom is my inspiration. She can make me positive all the time and without her, I don’t know what I would do. We’ve both had tough times. My dad left, which killed us. I was probably 10, my sister was 7. She didn’t care much. It hurt because I spent a lot of time with my dad...it’s pretty hard to really expose how he left because it’s pretty bad.”
(2/2)
"I’m here to make other people’s lives better. Not at the cost of my own. On every level we should be inspiring, impacting, and exchanging. No matter what the cause is, I want you to feel loved, protected, cared for and thought of in every way."
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“I traveled the last 10 years of my life. I have been to 35 countries between Asia, Europe, North Africa, South America, now Central America. Inspiration for my art comes from the place where I am. That keeps me motivated to keep traveling.”
“What’s the energy of Costa Rica like to you?
“I really like this country. I’m from Brazil and the vibe is very similar. The people, the energies.”
“What’s one of your dreams for your life?”
“I want to have a legacy. I want to be remembered as a good person. As I get older that becomes more important to me. I want to reflect that I was different. Not just another face in the crowd. I want to visit every country in the world. I have a 20-year-old son, I want him to be proud of me. And I want a cabin in the woods where I can fly fish and write.”
(3/3)
"What's one of your greatest strengths?"
"I'm always working on that so I don't know if I'd say anything...maybe communication and the art of storytelling."
"What's one of your greatest challenges?"
"Learning to fit in. That can be with society, or understanding what I'm good at. Learning how to walk my path."
(1/2)
“What’s your dream for you life?”
“To create beautiful things that people connect with and have a family and community I can give my love to.”
"When I was 11 years old, I was on a family vacation with my younger sister and my parents. During our vacation, in the middle of the night, we were thrown into the car and my mom was in tears. I had no idea what was going on. We pulled over, and my parents told us they had to tell us something. I asked my Mom, 'It’s Katie, isn’t it?' Katie is my older sister. 'She died, didn’t she.' My older sister’s boyfriend had lost his mind. He shot her and then he shot himself. It created a cataclysmic event in my life that ended up shaping the rest of my life and how I viewed death. For a while, it was the worst curse in the entire world. Then it ended up being the greatest gift I’ve ever received. It showed me the shortness, the finite essence of life. That allowed me to start taking on life in a different way. Freedom from the control of what everyone else thought. Knowing that it’s short, I’m going to do what I want. So it was a big moment in my life, but one I’m proud to have had."
"What’s your favorite thing about her?"
“She’s a nutball. Like a kooky, funny, person who has no self-consciousness. She just is who she is in every way. I hope she stays super weird."
(3/3)
"I came here 30 years ago with the excuse of going to school. I knew that wasn’t going to work out, but I went to USF for a semester and hooked up with a lot of really, really, interesting, great musicians. People used to move to the mission for art or for music and to get away from whatever homophobic, racist town you came from. It was reasons of personal liberty and freedom. It used to be the mecca for that.”
“I was born in Taipei. I studied art. I studied engineering. There’s lots of people I know that have an artist perspective or just have an engineering perspective. It’s comfortable for me to hold both. I can just feel it all."
(1/3)
Left - "At a Halloween gathering I met her. I saw her singing in this drum circle and couldn't take my eyes off of her. Then I began singing over her shoulder, which I had never felt comfortable doing before - singing in public that is, and when she looked up at me, I saw this 'yes, sister join me!' energy coming from her. That surprised me. In my experience, having women encourage and support one another wasn't the norm, let alone a 'stranger' doing this. There was no competitive energy. And it was like I was seeing my own sister."
“Hey Granny! Let’s take one more picture before you go back inside.”
“Ok, you going back to California after this?”
“Yeah, in a few days.”
“Well I sure appreciate you coming to see me. I love you.”
“I love you too Granny.”
“Hey Pooh…you got a girlfriend out there?”
“I’m working on it Granny.”
“Do you love her?”
“Yeah, I do.”
“Well you’re tall and handsome and a good person so you tell her I said she’s a lucky lady.”
“Thanks Granny. I’ll tell her.”
(4/4)
"I make a lot of art. Mostly sculpture. I do paper mache. I do some ceramics."
"Where do you get your inspiration for your art?"
"I usually get some picture in my head for something...and then I try to make it. I don't get messages in my head, I get pictures."
(2/3)
“Back in December I found a lump in my right breast. It was right after going home to visit my grandfather. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in November so cancer was kinda on my mind. When I came home and found the lump I got it tested right away. The first emotion I experienced when I found out was fear. It’s like a death sentence almost…but it doesn’t have to be. I was really worried I wasn’t going to be be able to pay my medical bills so my best friend Angelica suggested that I try YouCaring. She went through cancer about 5 years ago and she said, ‘Maybe it’s time to ask for help.’ It’s in the area, the don’t take as much out of your campaign like a GoFundMe. I could set it up myself.”
(1/7)
“When food is treated as a product or commodity the way you grow your business is making more food and spending less money. What that means is you’re spending less on ingredients or labor. Meaning you’re paying the people who are making the food less. That creates the context of the food industry. When people think of minimum wage they think of food kitchens. People who have this passion for feeding and nourishing us go in a get treated like cogs in a process. We created Josephine with the intention of creating a place or a system for these givers, these cooks to succeed."
(2/3)
"It excites me when I see clients or anyone in my life finding a way to be OK and thrive in the face of anything. When we have the tools to navigate tricky or sticky stuff we cultivate faith in ourselves and our ability to face anything life shows us, to have our own back. To claim that wholeness or highest part unconditional to life’s circumstances and that’s pretty f**cking dope! Going through this process myself and kind of testing out what works and what doesn’t, then finding a way to share and replicate that process for others in a way that works for them, well that turns me ON. It’s like emotional science, alchemy... art. Exciting is a good word for it." (2/4)
"One thing I’m working on on a daily basis is to constantly refine my being. I can always be kinder and more patient. Even in my meditation not to rush. That relationship with time is my greatest challenge. I have a great relationship with time but there’s also an element inside of me of being really eager. I want to get on to the next breath, the next moment, the next experience, whatever it may be. To fully sit in that stillness is the greatest challenge.”
(3/3)
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