Not quite a first full resolution around the sun yet, she was balancing herself on her tippy toes with the grace of a ballerina, holding on to the window frame like to a ballet barre. With eyes beaming of wonder for the horizon and the new vastness in front of her, she carried a spark of divinity that would keep on blooming. She was dancing before she was walking.

And so destiny had her become a dancer.

Then later, way later in her life, around the age of twelve, she found out how disappointing it was to see pictures of herself and yet not fully recognize the reflection. “ Is this really what I look like?! “ When she would look in the mirror, she saw something different. She didn’t know yet it was not merely something she could see, but rather something she could feel; that same spark of divinity that kept on blooming. In those moments she’d think: “ I wish I could take pictures with my eyes, so the world could see what I see… exactly as I see it. " She saw herself before the world could see her.

And so destiny had her become a photographer.

This girl, she is me. I am her.

As long as I can remember, my attention has always been mesmerized by beauty, expressions of poetry, and what it is that makes one heart feel so deeply. As though part of my Earth path to uncover the infinitude of forms that beauty can take… it was also through painful challenges that life taught me about the essence of true beauty. It took many journeys into the abyss of Self, with oceans of tears and waves of darkness, until I was guided to the realization and embodiment of… unconditional beauty.

I now know this piece of existence as… Love.

They say if you want to change the world, change yourself. It was through cultivating my own intimate relationship with the unconditionality of Love that I was able to recognize it all around me. Seeing through a new lens, I developed a profound reverence for the journeys that women I knew were on, and the loving radiance that would emanate from them, no matter their story. I felt I could see through them… just like I had seen through me. My camera became my sword of truth, unveiling masks and revealing truth. Revealing what is beauty. Revealing what is soul.

Now, over fifteen years after I held my very first camera in my hands (it was metallic blue and I paid for it cash with all the coins I had been saving for years), hundreds of women have allowed me the gift of immortalizing their unique essence and sharing it with the world as living, breathing testimonials of unconditional beauty.

The feminine is my eternal muse. The masterpiece that she is has the power to move mountains, inspire visionaries into revolutions of love and soften hearts into the bliss of presence.

She is me. She is you.

In the end, this story is about us, dancing in the heart of love.