For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to images, colors and patterns. Growing up, I remember having the book "The Little Prince" - I never read it, I just flipped the pages and looked at the images, and I never got passed the illustration of the snake eating the elephant. Yuk, next book, please! My Dad had an extensive library of art books, and again my eyes were drawn to painters like Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring" and it was my favorite painting of all time, and still is today. I was mesmerized by his genius use of dramatic color. There are just so many elements in that portrait, especially light and shadows. Fast-forward to this day, not much has changed, which is the reason why I took on photography about ten years ago. I have taken pictures of families, kids and graduates - but I always felt that I was missing something - I felt a need to share more of what I knew to be true in my life. Having lost my parents at a young age, and their deaths being only twelve days apart, my memory replayed and re-categorized all the events of my childhood over again as to reinvent a new reality based on a truth that I knew I could cling on to when things got worse, and boy did they get worse, but then things got better and have continued to get better. Sure, things get out of wack from time to time, but that is what life is, and not to think so is naiive. Now, seeking truth for me is running back to myself. To depend on myself to find the peace that only I can provide to my life. To know what makes me tick, what makes me laugh uncontrollably? what makes me cry? what do I feel when I look at a classical portrait? a modern one? or a simple photograph? or what I feel when I spend time with my loved ones: my family (daughter, sister, cousins) my significant other, or my friends?, and why not: what do I feel when I share all this with you? I feel peace in knowing that I am doing what I love, while helping you, and in the process we both help each other find just that: the truth in our lives. Ultimately, if I inspire you in some way to love yourself differently, to find a path back to yourself through fashion, beauty or simply by you reading my blog along your path - then I have found yet another beautiful reason to feel happy and fulfilled. XOXO