FUTURE WORLD.
The group with the
colaboration of MariOsa
and Alejandro Trejo.
Photography by Scott
Umstattd.
Routines only maintain life but do not
expand the quality of that life. I knew.
as a lifelong improvisational dancer and
movement teacher, how much my own brain
benefited from new movement vocabulary
and crossing hemispheric boundaries with
my body, but science was yet to catch up
with that.
I had always believed in constant
change as the creative source that drives
exceptional art, along with crossing
disciplines to inspire new ideas. My artistic
expressions were never limited to one
genre.
Creativity was just a constant flow of
energy. I wanted to find a way to share the
experience of creative flow with others and
in 2010 collaborated with several friends
to create my first Art Happening in a large
Wisconsin barn, appropriately named, Out
of the Ordinary. We focused on creating
an environment rich is sensory stimulation
through colors, shapes, music, unexpected
games, bubbles with smoke inside and
an incredible neuroscience headset that
allowed participants to actually see which
hemisphere of their own brain they were
using and what it looked like when they
switched hemispheres. Participants were
not audience but the ART itself. I knew I
was on to something when the rave reviews
came in and requests to do another.
I decided to never do the same exact
event twice. It was such a rich experience
collaborating that I knew that any future
event I was a part of would need to include
that aspect for my own growth.
Later that year my brother, Larry and I
moved to Mexico, which was in itself a
wondrous artistic adventure of newness. So,
I did not feel any need to creatively express
myself outwardly for the next 4 years, but
I used that time to complete a true story
children›s book about finding a Monarch,
called Madame´s Journey Home. It is
available on Amazon.com in English and
Spanish. Then, in 2014 a local artist asked if
she could knit a doll based on my character
for an art show she was planning. Things