Sketching someone's features is a deeply intimate process and it bonds me with the model. I get to swim in their expressions and see their features coming to life. I draw their stillness while imagining the movement behind it. Meet a beautiful stranger, a Hawaiian woman I caught a glimpse of when watching last year's … Continue reading Wahine
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Moonlight
Yesterday, I dipped my finger in the moonlight and painted my name on the sky of your soul.Your trees sprang to life under its glow and I could feel you smiling quietly behind the closed curtains of your eyes. My name bears the history of my disappointments and joys, the seemingly endless roads toward myself … Continue reading Moonlight
Sunsets Chaser
If nothing else, I am, at least, an ardent sunsets collector. Wherever I may find myself, the spectacle of colors, always makes me feel at home. I would stop my drive in the middle of nowhere, take the thousand-mile journey, and climb peaks, only to witness an ephemeral beauty. From Asian sunsets to African ones, … Continue reading Sunsets Chaser
Giving
I have always lived with the feeling that something miraculous is about to happen to me. That at any corner, know or unknown, I will meet with an experience that will have me bewildered.That I am about to do something extraordinary. I didn't reach this mindset because I had an easy path but because I … Continue reading Giving
A thousand years
I feel this feeling I have felt before. I feel it and it's as alive in me as it was 10 years ago. Or 15. Or 1000. There is no way for me to describe it. There are no words. But it's there and I have never felt more at home. I remember myself looking … Continue reading A thousand years
World
There are songs that have lowered themselves so deep in my being, I have now taken the shape of them. The same goes for books and good movies. You meet with a character that can completely change your perspective on the world. Or you feel how thanks to a good plot or interpretation, an idea … Continue reading World
8 Reminders for People Who Struggle
Almost every day, I am encountering people who struggle and can’t seem to find their way out of the dark sphere they’ve entered. Be it a close friend, a relative or one of my clients, I identified similar emotions in their experience. Feeling anxious and afraid. Feeling unworthy. Feeling hopeless. Can we all relate … Continue reading 8 Reminders for People Who Struggle