a couple more from the last series.

So again, these are photos taken by Matthew Jordan Smith. These shots are done in consecutive motion, to specific song that the photographer really likes. And I just close my eyes and move as the music moves me, and he just snaps*snaps*snaps away with the camera. He prefers the eyes closed on the models as it really does create a sense of intimacy in the photo, and it really helps me as the model just lose myself as well. The resulting photos are really beautiful, and have a feeling that really can't otherwise be captured in a pose-by-pose way of shooting photos.

It's been awhile.

It's been so long since I've last posted.

But it's because so much has happened since I've graduated CalArts. Or hasn't happened really.

I moved back to South Orange County, back to the bubble of platinum blonde, plastic house wives, the land of franchises, and cookie cutter homes and streets. From a community of artists that was so supporting and creative, ever evolving ever challenging, I moved back to a community that was everything but inspirational...in fact, it made me feel as though it was sucking any feeling of inspiration and creativity right out of me. I so easily lost sight of what I love, and the artistic energy that I thrived on.

But winds of change have blown favorably into my sails. I've decided to change scenery. And from California I'm moving to Florida and I'll be documenting that here as well.

I guess I'll be posting all sorts of things beyond my art work here now. I've been doing much more modeling, and some photography, dancing, among other things. I've been feeding my artistic soul with all forms of art and media and I want to start blogging about it again.

I've not many people to personally share this or much of my self with lately. So I'll share here, in hopes that maybe some soul would come upon it and enjoy it.

Here are a few pieces I've done with celebrity photographer Matthew Jordan Smith this past month. Doing these side projects have been helping me feed back into the part of myself that I love so much and thrive off of. Makes me feel like some form of an artist again.

Something Wicked This Way Comes....

Ray Bradbury's dark story of Something Wicked This Way Comes. In short, its about terrifyingly evil carnival that comes into towns and claims the souls of people who are drawn into the seductions of evil...and two little boys saving the day. yay! Another conceptual design project....this one is my most favorite project Ive done so far....and ehese are some of my favorite 3 designs.

Mr. Dark is the ringleader of the carnival, the second, is the Dust Witch, eyes sewn blind, and treelike branches that extend to the sky to "feeel" out the souls and emotions of humans. And the third, one of the few carnival freaks, this one is the Skeleton. These were designed for a venue and style accomadating dance theatre, with the story being told through music and dance instead of a just spoken dialogue. With dancers, singers and musicians. Think Cirque way of storytelling. ;)

Love is the Doctor

Conceptual projects for class for the play Love is the Doctor (L'Amour Médecin) written by Moliére. The characters have a base from commedia dell'arte and takes place in the 15th century, france. These designs are not all the characters but some of the interesting ones. The last two renders puppet designs for the silly doctors practicing silly french cure-all medecins from that era, like bloodletting and enemas!

dance.

This was the BFA2 Solo Concert from this past fall 2009 at CalArts Sharon Lund Disney Theatre. The dancer had a very specific idea from the year before she was cultivating and I came on as her costume designer.My first actual DANCE costume design! Watch the video below.

Trace

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