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Space booty 😏🤩✨

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I am really into making my space feel like it is my own these days. Daniel and I love to keep our home cozy with tapestries for decoration and a rug on the faux hardwood floors. Personally, I love candles, crystals, plants, dried flowers, mood lighting, and art on the walls. I have a piece I recently acquired, and once it's framed I'll share a photo of it in its new space. I'm currently working on two paintings for our walls as well, and they're going to have a heavy nature/fantasy theme.

My love for my fur babies heavily influences my space as well, with open areas for playing, a scratching post, and two cat trees. They had a toy box for a while, but it became a toy in itself and was eventually destroyed.

My spiritual practice influences my aesthetic a bit. I'm always searching for art, but lately my focus has been on the deities and goddesses which call to me.

And of course, books and art supplies over flowing their storage areas.

What inspires and influences your space, my friends? How do you like to keep it cozy and inviting?

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Sometimes you feel like a goddess, sometimes you feel like a mermaid, sometimes you feel like a forest nymph 

Photograph by Carissa C. Rice

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Model: Jesse E. Powell

Photograph by Daniel O. Morgan

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Model: Jesse E. Powell

Photograph by Daniel O. Morgan

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Model: Jesse E. Powell

Photograph by Daniel O. Morgan

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Model: Jesse E. Powell

Photograph by Daniel O. Morgan

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Thank you, Isadora Zeferino, for the excellent suggestions. Check her out on Twitter and Instagram . 

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Model: Jesse E. Powell

Photograph by Daniel O. Morgan

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sparks

Electro-Symbio Phonix for Phoenix (1992) by Nam June Palk, on loan from City of Phoenix Municipal Art Collection, centerpiece of the I'm Sorry But It's Hard To Imagine Exhibition. 

Part of the I'm Sorry But It's Hard To Imagine Exhibition.

Ocean of Light: Submergence-A Squidsoup Project

In September, Daniel and I took the chance to visit the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Artduring their free hours with a couple of friends, Dawn & Mike. It's a great way to visit a museum you've never been to, and I like to return later during quieter hours to spend more time with my favorite pieces. Dawn had suggested the museum, and we were intrigued by the photos circulating of the Ocean of Light exhibit.

I love contemporary art for the broad range of mediums that can be employed, and anything made with light or video is bound to become a favorite. Electro-Symbio Phonix for Phoenix by Nam June Palk spanned an entire wall, and I absorbed the flickering images and neon lights as if they were energizing me. I felt so honored to have the chance to view it. It seemed like a sort of love note to Phoenix.

My favorite installation of that evening was Ocean of Light: Submergence-A Squidsoup Project. (For those curious, Squidsoup is an art collective based in the UK comprised of Anthony Rowe, Gaz Bushell, Liam Birtles, Chris Bennewith, and Oliver Bown.) We walked into the dark room filled with strings of lights, the small orbs seeming to float of their own accord. Soft, rhythmic music swirled around us as the lights shifted from pinks to blues to teals to greens to yellows, going through every color. At times the light seemed to flow around the room in the shape of some sentient creature, and other moments every orb illuminated the room as the music swelled, with one shade or another, or in a shimmer of complementary hues. Most of our time there, I barely noticed all of the other people in the installation.

I completely lost myself to the lights and the music, observing the lights and focusing on my breathing as I wandered. I felt myself slip into a meditative state and the music seemed to move every cell in my body. I couldn't stop smiling, my face ached, at times I was laughing. I'm not sure how long we wandered among the lights but we saw them cycle through their pattern 3 or 4 times. I left feeling refreshed, uplifted, inspired. I was up later than usual that night creating, and I can't help but wonder if walking meditation among art can be one of the best catalysts of artistic inspiration.

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Model: Jesse E. Powell

Photograph by Daniel O. Morgan

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Model: Jesse E Powell

Photograph by Daniel O. Morgan

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oh oh it’s magic

Model: Jesse E. Powell

Photograph by Daniel O. Morgan

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treehugger <3

Model: Jesse E. Powell

Photograph by Daniel O. Morgan

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Give Thanks, 2016

By Jesse E. Powell

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Daniel and I celebrated 4 years together this summer. We went to the beach of course, one of our favorite places <3

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goddess 

Model: Jesse E. Powell

Photograph by Daniel O. Morgan