Tanya Bello

Tanya was so great to work with - she has such a beautiful quality of movement that is at the same time lifted but rooted, stable but full of release. Very elegant. Thank you Tanya. 

For a Happy French Scorpion

"Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in 'sadness,' or 'joy,' or 'regret.' Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, 'the happiness that attends disaster.' Or: 'the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy.' I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins with middle age.' I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.' "
- Jeffrey Eugenides from Middlesex


Great passage that hits the nail on the head. So true that these terse words hardly invoke the feelings they claim to. His more complex versions conjure up much more truth about feelings!  

I have a book!

Just released my exhibition book from the Exquisite Abandon series I showed at the Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach and 625 Gallery in San Francisco! You can own it for $45. Preview and order the book HERE. 

ODC Architecture of Light

This was a great performance where odc made the audience move through the great new building. It felt much more like a conversation rather than a static one-sided performance. 

DWELL

Tanya B. just told me she found my images on dwell.com! Check out the slideshow.

NY Times x 2

NY Times 2 days in a row! Plus a stranger in lower haight telling me I looked like I'm from NY. Nice. 

NY Times

Article here on ODC theater opening.. woo! Article in print October 4 if you get a chance to pick up the paper.