The light is so amazing this morning. The bids were up early and the air is cool. We have crickets this year in the yard and the sound at night is wonderful. They are singing us to sleep. I am not posting for a few day because I will be away, away from NYC, and away from my computer. Today I am still looking back at like things in photo shoots and seeing the work grouped together. How patterns emerge in everything we do, the repeat, they shift, yet they are alway there. Looking at my photography now after having spent 6 years on the project of the male nude I see and find so many of the same images being looked at, made with subtle changes, I can see how I see, how I was looking at the forms, over and over repeating the same pattern. Now my paintings and my drawings do the same. They form patterns that aline with my yoga and massage as well and are starting to bring many parts of my life together.

There are shapes that only the body can make and how amazing is that. We are so blessed to have the most incredible way to experience the world. The mind, The body and the Soul. The body is a fluid moving means of experience. It is mold able and changeable and in the course of time always rebuilt on its own doing. A way to truly change your life is to enroll in an anatomy class, learn about your body, understand what is in it, what makes it work and then the world will open up to you. For so many years I was stuck in my head, my body was just there, I took it for granted. It worked, gave me little trouble and managed to keep up with my destructive behavior. Not to long ago, when I found myself in a dark and ugly place, where my always being in my head had taken the light of my soul and the integrity of my self away it was areconnection with my body that pull me back into the light. I see so many people slumped over, holding on to so much unused energy around their bodies and I see that that disconnect is sorampant in this country. I set out to change my life by reconnecting with my body and I hope to continue the journey towards helping others from what I learn.

The moon was so full and amazing last night. I was bathed in moon light as I slept. What strong energy. It has me feeling good, energized and ready to finish my new painting. I really love the three images I chose today, Such strong people with such a strong presents.

A beautiful day

A beautiful set of photographs

My painting has taken me into multiples, where I have like things side by side. When you see them they look the same but with further investigation they are very different. Today I looked at my photos with that same eye. Seeing how I often shoot the same pose in different ways with different subjects. I taught a class last night where I talked about the concept of using a yogic touch in everything that you do. Taking the time to approach the world with light hands and a keen awareness, weather doing a yoga Kriya or doing the dishes. I like this way of looking at things and at photographs, when something is posed next to something else one is offered the opportunity to see subtlety.

Today I am going in deep and showing images that I take but never thought I would show. Self portraits that trace my way around the studio over the past 8 years. Its interesting now that I am moving on with the work Painting again I feel I have gained a perspective of a time frame that had me in the studio taking photographs. I can now look back and see what the journey was all about. The thing I like most about art is how it is so much about being in the moment and when the moments pass and we move forward markers are left in our wake. Moments captured and spent searching for beauty, being creative and tuning into the source. EK ONG KAAR SAT GUR PARSAAD, SAT GUR PARSAAD EK ONG KAAR.

Things are shifting as they do and a new adventure is starting for me in the world of painting. It has been close to 15 years since I had a deep interest to paint and now a drawing project that I have been working on for the past 2 years has shifted to its next step.... PAINTING. I am very excited, and feel I had an evolution in my approach to art and art making over the last few days. The beautiful thing was that it had to do with the blending of all aspects of my life. Working out, looking at art in galleries ( The late works of Claude Monet, at Gagosian) doing Yoga and massage, and a passage I read in the Yoga Sutras, 45:SAMADHI SIDDHIR ISVARAPRANIDHANAT. In hour 5 of massage on Saturday everything blended and I was able to see clearly in front of me what to do.

I looked back and found theses images I shot because they were done when painting was trying to surface about 1 year ago. It has tried over the past 12 years to come back in but has not succeeded. I think this time its around for a wile.

Another beautiful day in the garden. I love to wake and have some tea looking at the flowers.

NYC is a challenge to me lately. I am so happy with my home, my work, my friends, my art. I have even started to paint again, so it all seems fine. Yet there is this burning feeling inside me to move, to get away from the city and try something completely new. Only time will tell as I know to trust the universe.

Today I found one images when looking back. Its a beautiful one contemplative and calm.

My energy is a bit low and I going to spend some time in my yard with the flowers.

Well I added followers to my blog and so far its just me and my partner Barry so please join so I can see if anyone out in cyber space is watching. Seeing the work that I am sharing. Not that it really matters. It is just nice to know that the images are making their way out into the world and maybe by showing them people can help me to understand more about what it is I do. I take lots of pictures, I love to play with the light, the textures, the colors and the balance of light and dark. I love looking back at shoots and finding the images that are correct for me. Every time I look I feel the energy of different images rising to the surface. I just had some image chosen for a web site that I love and the curator went into the blog and selected 3 images. I am always amazed at the decisions that people make, what images they choose to put together, often amazing combos are made that I would never choose.

SHEN, the soul inside the body that manifests in the eyes. That part that reaches out into the world and project your energy into existence. This set of images was about capturing a projection manifesting in the minds of my subjects. The SOUL, OUR CONNECTION TO THE ENERGY OF THE UNIVERSE. Art celebrates that, stimulates that and feeds that.

Details GOD IS IN THE DETAILS. I am learning so much from doing this photography project where I am curating a collection of photographs of the male nude. I am seeing how all of these photographers are showing their work. How they give prints to galleries, how they treat and finnish their prints. I am liking some and shocked by others. One frustration that I am working to make go away is the voice that keeps at me saying "if they show this work, why the hell wont they show your." All things come in time and the longer I have to make my work great the better it will be. What I produce now is so much better then what I produced a few years back so......... Thats the reason. Today I swam around the archive and found details, moments that found small reveling way of sharing the male body.

Just looking back on a sunday morning.