We were making the world a more familiar place, connecting with everyone around us, indulging in new cultures and experiences, becoming citizens of the world.

In contrast to video, there is this extraordinary ability to stop time with still photo and to capture the feeling and mood of a moment with incredible succinctness.

As soon as you are immersed, nature becomes a complete aesthetic experience.

Painting, sculpture, music, literature and the other arts, it has been said, are considered the repository of a society’s collective memory.

The Toltecs believe that everyone is an Awakened One, but it is the Shamans whose eyes are open to this realization.

I decided to paint women, each one as if they came back from traveling with a key, a revelation, a secret of transformation.