Mystic Molecules

Posted on Feb 15, 2012 in Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Reflections, Sacred Geometry, Sacred mysteries, Secrets of Your Cells | 0 comments When I was trying to ‘brand’ what I do, I called my work “Mystic Molecules.” Why such a bizarre combination? Well, it’s a bit like my perspective. Molecules, of course, refers to science and our chemical makeup. Mystic refers to the artistic, metaphysical, symbolic, mysterious, and even, the sacred. When I began photographing molecules under the microscope, I was...
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Life and Death

Posted on Feb 7, 2012 in Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Reflections, Vineyards, Wine Shaman | 0 comments Wandering in a vineyard this time of year, where the vines are grarly or straight up in a line… No leaves upon them and many shorn of their wavy canes, The vineyard looks dead. No signs of life. Until the mustard blossoms. And the green grasses appear. and when the vineyard looks old and barren or as yet, unproven, it is a time of reflection for the Harvests gone by and yet to come ...
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Jewels of our Vines

Posted on Jan 31, 2012 in Blog, Featured, Reflections, Wine, Wine Shaman | 0 comments It is almost 30 years ago that I started my journey into the inner beauty of wine. It began at Sterling Vineyards when they had an artist-in-residence program and I was fortunate to be selected with two years to prepare. I was guided by the winemaker Theo Rosenbrand who would ask questions - what would a wine look like that had been grown in the valley compared to on the side of Diamond...
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The Art of Life

Posted on Jan 28, 2012 in Blog, Cellular shaman, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Health, Reflections | 0 comments I’ve been thinking about work, working for others, leaving a legacy for the future, and balancing work, play and relaxation.  I must admit I’m not so good at balance yet had an interesting mind shift the other day. Sometimes when I ‘work for money’ there is an underlying resentment that it’s taking away from my “real” work and I just want to get it...
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The Art in Wine

Posted on Jan 19, 2012 in Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Health, Reflections, Sacred Geometry, Sacred mysteries, Shaping Taste, Wine, Wine Shaman | 0 comments I started my professional life as a serious medical scientist on the faculty of the University of California Medical School. My specialties were biochemistry, hematology (blood) and oncology (cancer).  This meant that I LOOKED at cells with a microscope for their maturity and abilities.   But then my tool of science – this microscope – opened me to the ART IN SCIENCE and the ART in...
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Shaping Tastes

Posted on Jan 16, 2012 in Art and Science, Blog, Come to your senses, Edibles, Featured, Sacred Geometry, Shaping Taste, Wine | 0 comments Do you ever wonder where our words for tastes come from? I was always interested in roots of words, strange interest, for sure. And then I started photographing tastes and a whole world opened up, to me, maybe to you, too. Of course it all started with that first wine – a Sterling merlot (the photograph here) – when the winemaker said, ‘”It looked like it tasted.”...
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