echoesofawareness

1.25.12 Mezzanine Series

2012-01-25T17:31:00.000-08:00

11.17.11 Single Leaf Left

2011-11-17T10:05:00.001-08:00

More Autumn works

11.11.11 Autumn foliage color

2011-11-11T14:18:00.000-08:00

In day trip to Mt Vernon we found beautiful landscapes,

breathtaking autumn colors and even a history lesson.

11.10.11 Wind and Tide

2011-11-10T16:24:00.000-08:00

10.18.11 Reminiscence of last Autumn

2011-10-18T18:39:00.000-07:00

I find myself thinking of autumn, i wonder why...

Every year i wait anxiously for this time of the year, i wait for the leaves in the

trees to change color and then i wait for them to fall.

And then every year i find myself being so impatient about it,

is like i can not wait for the magic to start!

This is one of my favorite shots from last year, it was tho taken in

early november.

9.19.11 Color splash

2011-09-19T20:24:00.000-07:00

9.19.11 Colombian rose

2011-09-19T20:18:00.000-07:00

Sometime early this year i got some Colombian roses at wholefoods, pretty small yellow roses. here is one of them

7.24.11 Trapped leaves and Valley lilies

2011-07-24T16:15:00.000-07:00

Slowly but surely getting back to it

5.16.11 Ikebana Sogetsu

2011-05-16T18:47:00.000-07:00

Today was our first class of Ikebana Sogetsu at the Smithsonian. I can not explain how exited and happy we both were. Our Sensei is the coolest and most awesome lady ever. She has been studying Ikebana for over 30 years and she has been to Japan several times with the official Ikebana school, or something. Any way, it was awesome, we learn all the basics and the we put it to practice. Here is my very first Ikebana arrangement. We got to take it home with all the other flowers and branches we didn't use. I'm so happy and exited i can not wait for next monday!

5.3.11 Full of surprises...

2011-05-03T19:24:00.000-07:00

Just never know what's gonna be next...

4.17.11 They move like a dancing dream

2011-04-17T23:50:00.000-07:00

Mobile land!! so, made a mobile using a couple of strong magnolia tree sticks, used invisible tread (truly invisible..) and finally pulled out some of

the thousand leaves i collected last autumn.

Also used some money tree thingys (don't really know

how to call them)

and this is the outcome. After making a mobile for my

Isabella i had this idea going around my head.

The pictures are awful, and i'm sorry. i had a really hard time

taking them. but i promise, it looks better in person.

4.13.11 From land and sea

2011-04-12T21:42:00.000-07:00

Exploring new dimensions and colors.

2.22.11 Trapped leaves No. 4

2011-02-22T20:02:00.000-08:00

The last pieces of the trapped leaves series.

I just can't have enough of these...

2.15.11 Just a Box

2011-02-15T20:53:00.001-08:00

First box. still trying to figure out how it really works.

I'm loving the little compartments!

Oh! and also i found out that my new walnut inks

work great on balsa wood...

Happiness...

2.8.11 Holding Autumn Hostage...

2011-02-08T21:02:00.000-08:00

Thinking of Autumn...

1.5.11 Altered Book "The Savour of Life"

2011-01-05T21:51:00.000-08:00

My very first experiment on altered books.

Still a work in progress and i'm loving the process...

11.30.10 Folium Inclusum

2010-11-30T20:18:00.000-08:00

11.4.10 Autumn Works

2010-11-04T22:24:00.000-07:00

9.16.10 Subtle Spirit

2010-09-16T20:38:00.000-07:00

Frail bliss

9.16.10 Frame to the uncertain

2010-09-16T20:11:00.000-07:00

Mesmerized by Lilith

Chamber of compartments

8.23.10 Dream de lotus part 1

2010-08-23T00:40:00.000-07:00

Part One of my new project. still a work in progress.

Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens

2010-08-23T00:20:00.000-07:00

An awakening to nature's profound beauty...

5.21.10 Stone matters

2010-05-21T23:26:00.000-07:00

Yes, stone matters...

5.17.2010 Four dimension planet

2010-05-17T18:01:00.000-07:00

Solid wood planet host of four examples of beauty in our planet. Four dimensions to get lost in...

5.10.10 new ideas

2010-05-10T12:45:00.000-07:00

I've been thinking of this idea for a while, so, i got meself a printer and started working on a selection of my own pictures to put in the background of some of my pieces. this is the first execution. i took this picture at the Tudors garden in Georgetown. I love the dog and how the sun falls into the grass. In the beginning i was having some issues with what to do so i wouldn't overshadow the picture... anyway, here it is, and i feel this is the beginning of a whole new phase.

4.17.10 My Wall

2010-04-17T11:54:00.000-07:00

I love how art and nature change the way we see things. i remember when this wall was just a wall, plain, dull wall. Now it is the host of such precious little things. this are most of the pieces i've created in the past four months. that is how long i've been playing with them. i like the way they look together.

4.17.10 Trapped leaves series

2010-04-17T11:42:00.000-07:00

Here is the second piece of my trapped leaves series. I wasn't sure of doing another trapped leaf, i thought it may be a little of repetition, but, Mr. enoughforall advised me that it wasn't repetition, it is a series, and i liked that. So here it is. i love this kind of leaves, they kept their green color and their consistency is hard, they are great to work with.

4.5.10 Compartments

2010-04-05T22:19:00.000-07:00

This is the first execution of this idea i've had for a while; Compartments.

And the possibilities for different scenarios are infinite...

What do you think is happening here...?

4.4.10 Trapped Reminiscences

2010-04-04T22:58:00.000-07:00

I've collected reminiscences of autumn, little pieces of the puzzle of nature. I've captured this reminiscences just to make them live again... Now spring is here, and a whole universe of possibilities is coming to life once again. This piece makes me wish i could trap all the reminiscences of lost yesterdays.

3.21.10 Nature's fire

2010-03-21T22:35:00.000-07:00

Nature fire, fake fire, leaf fire. the idea of this piece came to me thru the shadows, i kept visualizing the shadows when i was working on it. when i glued the first leaves i thought they could be wings... then it just went somewhere else... trying to work with different shapes and forms.

3.9.10 Multiple Suns in the Horizon

2010-03-09T22:31:00.000-08:00

I've been wanting to do something like this for a while, so i decided to stop talking about it and start figuring out how to work it out. So, my so called "suns" i have used before, but now i'm using a different perspective, upside down, they are hanging like they did back when they belonged to the tree. I really hope the stay there...

3.3.10 Spiraling away

2010-03-03T22:42:00.000-08:00

Life is an spiral, i think, life goes around in a spiral way, and even time is not a flat line like everybody use to think, it's an spiral, follows its spiral course to a dramatic division of fragments of time, that then we store in our memories and we call the past, which continuously visit us in our reminiscences. Just a thought. I love this piece because it took me a good amount of time to finish it, so it has a lot of thought. the twirly thingys i used before i think and i cut them from a green branch that had dangerous thorns. It was a little hard to take the right pic, there is so much detail that the camera doesn't get.

3.2.10 Dualism

2010-03-02T21:21:00.000-08:00

I wonder where does creativity go when it goes away... does it go on vacations to some exotic island or does it go to the mountains... does it comes back with a killer tan, or it comes back with gifts for the family... i just wonder, i wonder of endless days that go by with nothing to them... it makes me wonder and at the same time it worries me, but at the end of the day i guess we just have to keep trying to live one day at a time. i just hope that if creativity has to go somewhere sometime, it doesn't take too long to come back. this piece makes me think of the dualism of life.

2.23.10 Dream like imagery

2010-02-23T22:36:00.000-08:00

Is really interesting to witness all the different stages of the snow. How magical it is when falling, how it can transform landscapes, how it can reflect the blue sky... and many more, but, what happen to it all when melting down.. it is slowly gone...

2.14.10 after snow arboretum

2010-02-15T12:58:00.000-08:00

It was a cold winter day, the wind was crazy! we had to walk backwards for a while, so the wind wouldn't freeze our faces. But we loved it. The contrast of the branches against the deep blue sky is one of my favorites, i was also exploring b/w and i really like it, looks like a painting. I'm loving the snow, it has gave us a whole new different perspective of things.

2.8.10 Coldness

2010-02-11T21:16:00.000-08:00

Here are some of my favorite shots of the "nieve everywhere" series.

2.7.2010 Nieve everywhere part two

2010-02-08T18:59:00.000-08:00

Lovely night walk around ella's and then beautiful day at the mall, thanks Mateo for being such a great guide...

2.6.2010 Nieve everywhere part one

2010-02-07T22:31:00.000-08:00

It's been an awesome winter!! I don't even remember how many inches of snow we got in DC, but it was a lot... I've enjoy the snow like never before. Here is part one of my "Nieve everywhere" series. The whole video editing is still a new thing for me, but i'm learning and i'm exited to share with everybody!!

2.3.10 Opera singers..

2010-02-02T23:47:00.000-08:00

These two are a couple of the funniest i've made. Personally i think they are opera singers, but then again they could be anybody, you or me.... I love the frame one, well i love the frame itself, i pondered on the idea of making my own frames, but it quite don't really work with the stone ones, so, i guess i'll leave it alone for now. The other one, is a weird one, the idea came from doing something with all those wonderful shells kind of thingys. I really wanted to have something coming out of it, so there it is. I think it kind of works. I think once again i'm using the change of perspective of small to big and vice-versa.

1.31.10 And who is that?

2010-01-31T14:06:00.000-08:00

Just there, under a canopy of dead branches. I've been exploring different ways of arranging the stones. and trying to use stones that have weird shapes. this is one of the first ones. I think it looks like a person, uuumm, or something...

1.25.10 Strangers

2010-01-25T21:26:00.000-08:00

Strangers yet the same...

1.25.10 Today's wonders

2010-01-25T20:22:00.000-08:00

Today was a wonderful monday, i've come to realize that monday may be my favorite day of the week, and it might make sense, i was born in a monday.. oh well. Seancito and I had a lovely day. I thought the sky was gonna explode, it was the perfect medley of dark and light clouds with a deep blue sky. Couldn't help myself and took 1000 pictures. I wish every day was a monday...

1.23.10 Smallness

2010-01-24T12:01:00.000-08:00

Small and to some people insignificant little pieces of nature. It's very refreshing and instantly rewarding to walk around between the trees and just find this little treasures. The curly thingys on the left i found them in some weird bright green branches that had thorns.

1.17.10 Last leaf standing

2010-01-17T19:32:00.000-08:00

I love how thru nature one is able to find analogies to almost all aspects of life. this is the last triumphant leaf standing. what it means? again, i don't know. it could mean it all, or nothing at all. But the truth is that every day, every waken hour i keep finding pieces of my life reflected in nature, then transcribed into these pieces of art.

1.16.10 Warriors from another realm

2010-01-17T01:43:00.000-08:00

In a different realm they would be warriors, in a different reality they are powerful beings with some magical powers... so calm, still and quiet.

1.15.10 Stones in a bottle

2010-01-16T01:27:00.000-08:00

I've had this idea in me head for a while now. i wanted to fill a bottle with small stones and maybe other things like soil or sticks or leaves, it is still a in a early stage, i guess i'll keep waiting for the right ideas... for now this is what it is.

1.15.10 A Jewel

2010-01-16T01:20:00.000-08:00

I fell in love with this one from the first moment. It just seems to me like a precious jewel, like something so special that demands to be frame by itself.

1.11.10 a forest

2010-01-11T21:06:00.000-08:00

An ancient forest in a far, far away land...

1.10.10 entangle

2010-01-10T20:42:00.000-08:00

Entangled sticks, meant to be together by some magic power of destiny. Different kinds of sticks, that found their fate to be here in my wall. I don't know yet what they could mean, but i'm sure it will come. I found myself looking at a different part of it every time, like small pieces of history that i am discovering over and over.

1.8.10 Fallen & Forgotten

2010-01-08T23:28:00.000-08:00

The simplest things in life, often the ignored ones are usually the significant ones. Sticks, fallen branches, left to be forgotten and stepped on, their fate... to reunite again with the earth and the soil to once again by the miracle of nature come back some day...

My mission: somehow give them life again, not by the miracle of nature of course but by my own hands.

1.7.10 from inside out

2010-01-07T16:45:00.000-08:00

I really love how the perspective of things can be shift around...

I picked up these at the national arboretum, don't quite know what those little dry thingys are..

the beautiful and smooth stones are a courtesy of Matt Hollis, thanks Matt i love all of them!

So, my idea was to go from small to big, from being a small part of a tree to being the tree itself

1.6.10 What lies beyond....

2010-01-06T21:32:00.000-08:00

At this point i would love to think i know what i'm doing, but really, i don't... all of these ideas are coming to me like an unexpected storm. So, here i am, i found myself looking at all those stones and sticks and whatever, and i wonder.... where will this go...?

For now, i'll just keep on going, i'll just keep on materializing my crazy ideas, the question is: will the sticks stay stick together...?

1.5.10 Collecting..

2010-01-05T21:45:00.000-08:00

Im collecting precious stones, precious not for their price but for their meaning. i'm collecting pieces of the world, i'm collecting little pieces of somebody and someplace else... then i make it my own.

1.4.10 Stones and Sticks

2010-01-04T00:14:00.000-08:00

I'm experimenting with different possibilities, different designs. The combination of stones and sticks is one of my favorite. I'm still using that wood material as a base. I've been also making different kinds of frames, made of bigger sticks. for now i will keep on using this soft wood, is really easy to work on and to cut. I really like these two pieces, to me they say a lot, they have a personal meaning, the connection of the two of them, once they shared the same forrest, and now reunited by fate they share the same ground again.

1.3.10 A Statement.

2010-01-03T23:55:00.000-08:00

Nature's own way to make a very important statement. The idea of this guy came to me as like giving life to a powerful statement of something, like he is ready to say something important, but i don't quite know what it is... It really felt great to give him legs so he could stand by himself.

Organic sculptures project.

2010-01-01T23:27:00.000-08:00

This is stage one of my new project i have been working on. For a long time i've been trying to come up with ideas of organic long lasting mini sculptures. For these mini sculptures i have used dry little pieces of fallen branches and little stones. I am so lucky to live in a city that has lots of parks and places where i can take wonderful walks and also gather some of my organic supplies. I have been exploring different options for the frames, for now i think i will keep using this soft wood material. I am so exited about this new project!!

How to make love stay...

2009-12-28T22:20:00.000-08:00

"When the mystery of the connection goes, love goes. It's that simple. This suggests that it isn't love that is so important to us but the mystery itself. The love connection may be merely a device to put us in contact with the mystery, and we long for love to last so that the ecstacy of being near the mystery will last. It is contrary to the nature of mystery to stand still. Yet it's always there, somewhere, a world on the other side of the mirror (or the Camel pack), a promise in the next pair of eyes that smile at us. We glimpse it when we stand still.
The romance of new love, the romance of solitude, the romance of objecthood, the romance of ancient pyramids and distant stars are means of making contact with the mystery. When it comes to perpetuating it, however, I got no advice. But I can and will remind you of two of the most important facts I know:
1. Everything is part of it.
2. It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

Tom Robbins, Still life with woodpecker.

Autumn is just passing by

2009-12-28T22:09:00.000-08:00

Leaves are falling all around, autumn is here just passing by...

rusty yellow and red leaves that awake my mind..

same sky different lives...

In my way to find the river man

2009-12-28T21:59:00.000-08:00

Nick Drake, River Man

Betty came by on her way
Said she had a word to say
About things today
And fallen leaves

Said she hadn’t heard the news
Hadn’t had the time to choose
A way to lose
But she believes

Gonna see the river man
Gonna tell him all I can
About the plan
For lilac time

If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows
And all night shows
In summertime

Betty said she prayed today
For the sky to blow away
Or maybe stay
She wasn’t sure

For when she thought of summer rain
Calling for her mind again
She lost the pain
And stayed for more

Gonna to see the river man
Gonna to tell him all I can
About the ban
On feeling free

If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows
I don’t suppose
It’s meant for me

Oh, how they come and go

Messengers from another realm

2009-10-20T20:23:00.000-07:00

Flowers play an essential part of the evolution of consciousness.. I've found that flowers have the power to change the energy of a space.. make everything more beautiful, like Buddha did; just stare at a flower... one will find awakening and open a door to liberation...

Fearless..

2009-02-23T18:57:00.000-08:00

A life lived on fear is a life full of regret, but how to be fearless.... According to the teachings of Shambhala, the sacred path of the warrior, one needs to find fear, and embrace it.... then you can go beyond fear. As we own fear we also own fearlessness... Just came to my mind how fire is a great example of fearlessness..... Fire just is, it is without fear...

Branches...

2009-02-23T00:03:00.000-08:00

My love for naked branches against the sky grows every day more....

A cold winter night at the national mall

2009-02-22T23:45:00.000-08:00

Some of the best moments in my life i've lived them with these three wonderful people, the most important people in my life, my family. These shoots were taken this winter on their last visit, wonderful holidays.... I love the colors of the sunset...

The Underworld

2009-02-22T22:57:00.000-08:00

Lately i have been fascinated with caverns.... In the past couple months i have visit two of the greatest caverns in The Shenandoah valley. These are some of the thousand pictures i took in Luray caverns. It is another world down there...

It is all about awareness...

2009-02-22T22:06:00.000-08:00

Sometimes is good to stop and feel the world going by, by being in the now. As the name of my post... it is all about awareness, it is all about how you, i, and everybody see the world, how we all see reality... Being aware of the seconds, and the minutes going by; being aware of our very own perception of reality. I have found this to be the very first step of human consciousness evolution...

Awareness of our environment, of nature.. that is why i find so fascinating the art of capturing beautiful moments thru pictures.

These were taking at the national mall in a late summer day..

Surreal Sunrises...

2009-02-22T21:55:00.000-08:00

I love, love these ones, these were taking during summer when the sunrises are longer. We have the special guest appearance of Sean and Taro, they actually make great models....

Harvest Moon Sequence

2009-02-22T21:25:00.000-08:00

I feel kind of exited with this whole blog thing.... Now i want to post all my pics... but, i know.... i will make my best picking up the selection....

Here are some of last year harvest moon., i am so grateful for the wonderful view i have out of my window..

Explosion in the sky...... and earth...

2009-02-22T16:18:00.000-08:00

Here are some of my favorite shoots of nature.... Many of them from the arboretum and DC gardens.

An open window of my mind..

2009-02-22T16:09:00.000-08:00

Well hello all... I felt like i had to create a blog and keep all my good friends posted with my pictures, thoughts and craziness. I hope it makes you smile and sigh here and there.

Love

Pau