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Spring 18

NATALIE BERGMAN 35mm, San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, April 2018

NATALIE BERGMAN

35mm, San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, April 2018

When I left a flourishing career + life in NYC to start over as an artist in rural Oaxaca, I wrote in my journal a promise to myself: I will be more powerful in this place than ever before.

A year and a half later, it’s proven true. Not in the societal sense — certainly, I have less money and ‘influence’ than ever — but in the personal sense. The inquisitive, expressive, imaginative sense. The intuitive sense. The sense of embodying my wild individuality, unafraid of all the strength and strangeness and shadows that includes.

Funny thing is, the more I explore and evolve and grow, the more I spiral right back home to my own center, where all these gifts have been all along — tugging at my soul, waiting to be remembered. As a talisman of acknowledgement and gratitude, lately I’ve been wearing this @monicarichkosann pendant close to my heart. Inspired by the Wizard of Oz, it states: you had the power all along my dear.

And it’s true. We all do.

I started today with a long to-do list, but ended up having long conversations instead ✨

Where it’s always summer and the good things grow 💚🌾 #sweethomeoaxaca

Learning to see the beauty in all things + traveling back from the beach with a suitcase stuffed with freshly scavenged sculpture supplies ♻️

Where the poems write themselves 🌊✍🏼 Art Camp August 2019 🎨 #campkeli #thekeenestcowboy #therowdywaves