Love affairs

Well I think 3.5 years away is long enough. 
I've been making these lil diddies in my absence. 
After 42 months of computers, spreadsheets and 16-hour days, I'm ready to turn my attention back to art. These babies will be running themselves by this November, and I return to Paris. Poet, painter, photographer, filmmaker...these will be my new titles. It's really been too long. Sometimes Love affairs bring us back to ourselves. Reading together, being old people, road trips...remind me of how sensitive we are. In the quiet. In the stillness.

ORIGIN just went national at Whole Foods

What a year! The last post was announcing my new publication. This one is announcing that it's just gone national. Our fourth issue is now on stands across the national at Whole Foods. We'll be growing to other major national retailers next issue. what a glorious, bumpy, 20-hour days kinda ride. Thank you for your love and support these last 9 months.

Maranda

Join us this Sunday May 1st. My magazine's release Party.

Oh where to begin? What a crazy amazing ride. I've just published a Split Cover 152-page Conscious, Arts+Culture magazine launching in 6 cities this week. It's 3am...so this will be a quicky. Come join us this Sunday on the rooftop of Whole Foods for our Austin release Party. 1000 of our closest friends, music, performers, artists, yoga studios and Organizations...dancing, celebrating, connecting 2-6pm. Whole Foods + 20 other awesome companies are sponsoring. Christina Sell will be leading the largest free yoga class Austins seen from 4-5pm.

Deepak Chopra, Daniel Pinchbeck, Seane Corne, DJ Spooky, Dead Prez + 25 other national columnists have joined us the origin family.

We are in 150+ locations in Austin. Houston. Dallas and now we are headed to LA, San Fran, and NY. Thanks for your love and support through this process of birth, loving and creating.

I'll be throwing book release parties for Ana Forrest and Christina Sell within the next 2 months and working with Ted.com to create Origin's own conference and video/interactive website and channel featuring innovators/speakers/leaders.

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editor@originmagazine.com

love really does win.

Origin Magazine.

We are a 90+page, full color publication, featuring Influential National+Local Contributors. We are focused on Art+Culture, Yoga, Film, Music, Technology, Eco/Sustainability, organic health and personal growth featuring articles you'll actually want to read. We hit stands April 15th in Austin.Houston.Dallas and San Fran and L.A April 30th. Check out our amazing list of contributors+world class photographers on our site.

What a year it has already been!

I'd love to hear from you with your ideas for topics. contributors. stories.

Maranda

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New Commissioned Work. Austin City Lofts. W Hotel Residencies.

(client photos).

New Commissioned Pieces. The Royalton. Houston.Texas

‎"the sober certainty of waking bliss"

Actualized Vision.

What an amazing month.

I sold 8 major pieces in my newest signature collection last week and signed a commission for a medical building. I currently have 11 bids on 2 major hotel residencies.

As we clear out the dead weight in our lives, the things/people that hold us back from our expansiveness...we see big things begin to shift.

I'm getting clear about my vision personally and professionally. We are also few weeks away from launching a new downtown gallery space. One that is much larger (6000sq) and big enough to accommodate our notorious opening exhibitions.

Next week we are launching my New Commercial Art website along with taking over a Texas-based Magazine focusing on sustainability, eco-minded products and progressive learning with an emphasis on art, yoga, and organic families. I've got some national heavy hitters for social change on board, writing monthly columns.

This year I am focusing on Actualized Vision, strengthening my new found voice and altering+transforming old thought patterns into substantial beauty. I'll post the site here next week, along with updates.

Never Look Away.

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away."

"Love with no object
conversation with no subject
seeing with no image

light on light,
pure possibility"

~~Rumi~~

“Now I am sober and there's only the
hangover and the memory of love .”

--Rumi

the gaping wound opened again and the cool rush of infinite space and meaninglessness rushed through me like a wind or a ghost train.
and i think, oh god, am i here again?
... is anything for certain in this world as the floor keeps dropping out beneath me to expose the fine network of stars and far off galaxies and groundlessness beneath my feet?

the clouds are letting go of the rain...

it is time for letting go

winter

pruning back to the bones

what is essential?

--edited from the barefoot yogi

the undoing...

The doing is in the undoing....

Painting is a type of uncovering, unfolding, emerging discovery...

but as i look at the place where I pull from...

extract my creative power...

it is not undiluted. it is not without fear.

speaks its own language

the images of the interior pushing into form; the paint speaks its own language.

i surrendered. releasing any attachments i may have harbored, i was willing to go to the extreme if called.

in that giving up of an agenda, the guidance came: fire around the belly! exploring the space, i was a steward for the vision.

--a.h+mp

old cycles. fresh faces. the speed of my willingness

today was a day going backwards. this body is fresh but holds the past so closely, closer than what is happening now. i realize reality is nothing but a field of old cycles playing out in forms of fresh faces & places, but underneath is a current of familiar, a variation on a theme. the only way out is up.

the first in a series of clearing sessions on the warmest December day. an energetic bath penetrating all directions of time. allowing the impressions & energy to rise, pass. sometimes pain, sometimes tears, sometimes nothing. memories from other lives lifting into my awareness, shocking revelations & insight as to why things are as they be today.

after hours, i felt light, energized. spaces were opened, cleared. ran a bath of baking soda & sea salt. i fell asleep in the overwarm water, limbs folded & twisted womb style as the small candles flickered at the corners of the tub.i felt dizzy, dragged myself to the meditation room & fell asleep again surrounded by angels, plants, rocks. the sensation of cooking off old modes of unforgiveness & resentment, traumas & misperceptions. a tumultuous sleep living though the releases, grateful they are moving from their hiding places, evaporating at the speed of my willingness.

--ankah