Opening Up

Posted on Mar 17, 2013 in Art and Wine, Blog, Featured, Marketing innovations, Shaping Taste, Wine, Wine Shaman, Wine Tasting | 0 comments Wine lovers talk about how a wine opens up once its let out of the bottle. When we pour wine into our glass and swirl, we’re helping the wine open up.  It softens and release its many volatile components into the air, and our nose.  A lot more happens, of course, as the wine in our glass opens up. We may open up too while the wine does. And for those of us who are patient and lucky enough...
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Mystic Molecules

Posted on Feb 15, 2012 in Art and Science, Blog, Cellular shaman, 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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Shaping Wine…

Posted on Aug 2, 2011 in Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Marketing innovations, Shaping Taste, Wine Shaman, Wine Tasting | 2 comments If wine had an image to represent its character, style or personality – what kind of wine do you think would be represented by the above image? I often fantasize that if wine bottles had pictures of what’s inside the bottle, we the consumer might make different choices. Granted our experience of wine is subjective yet in my own experience  capturing wine’s expression under the...
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Using the “Law of 3″ to Make Change

Posted on May 8, 2011 in Blog, Cellular Intelligence, Cellular Psychology, Cellular shaman, Cellular Wisdom, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Reflections, Sacred Geometry, Secrets of Your Cells | 0 comments Investigating the links between science and spiritual traditions, I’ve discovered an uncanny quality in biology, architecture and spirituality I call threeness. A code of 3 is hidden in our cells and molecules. The genetic code is  made up of 3 letters.  AAA     ATA   GCT Our brains are called TRIune constructed of 3 anatomically and functionally different areas – brain stem,...
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Shaping Taste

Posted on Apr 10, 2011 in Blog, Cellular Intelligence, Come to your senses, Edibles, Sacred Geometry, Secrets of Your Cells, Shaping Taste | 2 comments All my words and pictures about the art and shapes in wine may strike you as odd. However there is some scientific grounding in the idea of the shape of molecules.  They have a complementarity meaning they must fit another molecule in order to exert their effects.  In the case of taste, sweet and savory share receptors, bitter has a separate receiving site, while salty and sour penetrate the...
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