This is also where I could have done better as a parent. Sometimes I would be so involved in my plans to provide good nutrition for her, to do this and that for her, and would not listen to her when she would try to tell me she was not hungry or didn’t want to do this and that. I would have liked to have more patience and more knowledge as a parent; I would have handled lots of situations better.

India

Shane Powers

I learned a lot about the vast difference between WORKING in India and TRAVELING for leisure.  I was well-warned of the chaos of India and advised to just give in and go with the flow, which I’m good at.  Traveling was a breeze.  I stayed in seedy little hotels, walked countless miles carrying my DSLR and my Rolleiflex Twin Lens with 25 rolls of 120 film, and even trekked into the desert on a camel and slept on dunes under the stars and full moon on Christmas Eve.  But trying to deliver lectures and demonstrations to 38 students every week while I was working was much more difficult.  I can be pretty flexible in any work environment, but it became very difficult to plan ahead and see the fruits of my efforts when the school lacked structure, planning and consistency.  I have to admit that I did learn to relax a bit and ENJOY playing hours of table tennis with everyone from the students to the school’s founder/director.  But by my last class in January, the lack of communication and structure was wearing me down.

Mercedes Dorame

Gaps exist in memory, history hangs by threads and anxiety about authenticity and value seeps through the cracks.  Through my work I seek to regenerate to connective tissue of personal and collective meaning to reconstruct a whole.

As part of a Native American tribe from Los Angeles that was once declared extinct by history books, I wade through the shifting aspects of ceremony, deciphering the fragmented pieces of my ancestry as a Gabrielino. Piecing together cultural tradition and re-examining personal and cultural artifacts I explore the intersections of experience and memory.

Cinnamon and ochre interchange, red yarn binds and supports as it does with ceremonial sage.Through the performative acts of arranging and combining I activate these objects with new growth creating contemporary ceremony.

©Elena Carrasco

I remember as a little girl watching my older sisters getting ready for the day. I would sit on the edge of the bed watching them powder their faces, spray perfume, run a stick of a creamy bright color back and forth on their lips. They were like birds flaunting their feathers.

My work focuses on self-image, expectations, transitions, and the rituals girls perform to arrive at adulthood. I am intrigued by rules of etiquette, that prescribe what women should look like, how they should behave, and what they should believe.

India

Shane Powers

I learned a lot about the vast difference between WORKING in India and TRAVELING for leisure.  I was well-warned of the chaos of India and advised to just give in and go with the flow, which I’m good at.  Traveling was a breeze.  I stayed in seedy little hotels, walked countless miles carrying my DSLR and my Rolleiflex Twin Lens with 25 rolls of 120 film, and even trekked into the desert on a camel and slept on dunes under the stars and full moon on Christmas Eve.  But trying to deliver lectures and demonstrations to 38 students every week while I was working was much more difficult.  I can be pretty flexible in any work environment, but it became very difficult to plan ahead and see the fruits of my efforts when the school lacked structure, planning and consistency.  I have to admit that I did learn to relax a bit and ENJOY playing hours of table tennis with everyone from the students to the school’s founder/director.  But by my last class in January, the lack of communication and structure was wearing me down.

©Elena Carrasco

I remember as a little girl watching my older sisters getting ready for the day. I would sit on the edge of the bed watching them powder their faces, spray perfume, run a stick of a creamy bright color back and forth on their lips. They were like birds flaunting their feathers.

My work focuses on self-image, expectations, transitions, and the rituals girls perform to arrive at adulthood. I am intrigued by rules of etiquette, that prescribe what women should look like, how they should behave, and what they should believe .

©Elena Carrasco

I remember as a little girl watching my older sisters getting ready for the day. I would sit on the edge of the bed watching them powder their faces, spray perfume, run a stick of a creamy bright color back and forth on their lips. They were like birds flaunting their feathers.

My work focuses on self-image, expectations, transitions, and the rituals girls perform to arrive at adulthood. I am intrigued by rules of etiquette, that prescribe what women should look like, how they should behave, and what they should believe .

Beautiful Silence

Irwin Lewis

There were so many things that stood out for me, but one in particular that stood out was the people and how kind they were.  They were not just kind to each other they were also kind to their environment.  I feel that having respect for others and your environment is the most important thing in life.

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Irwin Lewis

There were so many things that stood out for me, but one in particular that stood out was the people and how kind they were.  They were not just kind to each other they were also kind to their environment.  I feel that having respect for others and your environment is the most important thing in life.