It’s an interesting concept, to paint one’s face to celebrate life by drawing on death.

In modern societies, the painting of one’s face to imply liveliness is standard protocol for most females. Blush intimates a healthy glow…

See also: dilation of the capillaries.  See also: vasocongestion.

Eye colors and curlers make eyes seem sh...

Muscles straining… A sudden assault of dizziness- quickly conquered by the fierce joy of doing it.  As the people below begin to shrink and shrivel in the haze reflected from the sun baked earth, so too do the burdens of daily life. Stress like soldiers slayed alongside calories, liquefying and running out with the rivulets of s...

Cut to me sitting in the grass, swiping at the purple pooled in the corners of my mouth, the rainbow powder-turned-paste now clogging the nasal mucosa…my friends, in line, waiting absurdly for coconuts.

I am content and lazy, full of unidentifiable mash I paid $12 for at the lunch line. Three different smashed vegetable concoctio...

Darth Vader is all I hear. Slow drag in on the tail of a rasping exhale, one chasing the other. Too fast, now too slow, not enough. Underneath that the sound of my hammering pulse. A hair must have been caught in the perimeter of my goggles because water is trickling in, salt stinging one eye.

I slow my fins for a moment trying t...

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is a sensory circus, a grand carnival for the mind. Lights, art, people, and of course music, melt and meld into a Dali-esque mirage of fantastical sights and sound inexplicably at home in this broad stretch of desert. Time does, indeed, seem to liquefy and drip, drop sizzle minutes i...

The day dawned crisp and clear. Typical to any “Event Day” for me I’d barely slept the night before. My mind hummed with things still to do, excitement and a sense of urgency that my body vibrated to... What I’d imagine Christmas must be like for children, though I’ve never believed in Santa and his elves myself.

Today was the be...