. DRUIDS & DRYADS .

at Los Osos Oak Groves

with

CHARIS MELINA

🌟

she is a fallen star
an angel earthed
the universal force embodied
- radiant -
light shining between
soft velvet shadows
mysterious
she is.

On a summer evening we met, by an old oak grove, to share space for a few precious days.

Wandering and a little lost, we walked under trailing moss and bearded forests, pointing out gnarled faces in the bark, and following fairy paths that lead round-about-and-nowhere.

These were days filled with laughter, strawberries soaked in champagne, whispers in the movie theatre, stolen lemons, and silent conversations with her green-eyed black cat.

These were nights of cosy companionship, snuggled into the nest of our van, legs tangled, her hands gently weaving my hair up into cotton cloth strips.

We spoke of and experienced a subtle magic that exists upon the edges of our feeling bodies, but I believe also in a magic that lives within the most ordinary of things… it is all around us, woven between us like sparkling threads, connecting me to you. These moments spent with the goddesses I meet and photograph are pure magic!

The Vampire Reprised

nox, nacht, night

an inky darkness,

to swaddle and huddle the light

round circle, deep cycle

there is a motion to everything

a root to everything

a place for everything

and what of you, then?

crea-tura

you know that there is

no creation without destruction

no brimming life without void

no weaving without snipping

…

and it is you who would

come to take that which is no longer needed

~ to swallow clots, to bring movement again

to life force that is stuck.

🌹

Charis has a natural way of looking at everything with love - she reminds me to continually renew my compassion for all creatures + all beings and energies, even those we fear…

… Besides, when two mystics come together, both carrying some serious vampire stories, you best believe they will incorporate those energues and experiences into a photoshoot!