Introducing Maya…
This photo was taken at about 6.30 am. Maya had just gotten up for school and in true fashion was already well in to an impromptu creative design experiment before she’d even finished getting dressed. I don’t really remember exactly how this started, but what I do remember is looking over at the kid who is constantly off on tangents and thinking, “wow. her creative energy is just flowing this morning. If she’s late for school its worth it. I’m just gonna let her roll with this one and take the pressure off to get her morning jobs done.” And so there she was, engrossed in a self portrait of sorts, an exploration of the contours of her face and – in a way – of the mind within.
I found this shot to be so haunting and what she’d created to be so effortlessly powerful. Such is life with Maya: a constant exercise in open-mindedness! This kid epitomizes what it means to be “outside the box” and so what better image to use for her first appearance on this blog?
