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StrangeTango.com is a multilayered art installation in cyberspace…the documentation of a life in three iterations: as a film treatment, a book, a blog.
“What remains as documentation of a life?”
Strange Tango haunts the boundaries of digital streams and visceral storytelling, where pixels and dreams flow together.
Video, reportage, and nonlinear narrative meld in captured moments from the life of A. D. Tejada, artist - traveler - citizen of the world.
Life is a strange tango...
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StrangeTango.com celebrates a milestone first birthday.
15 years was the timeframe between my first interactive multimedia class and the launch of StrangeTango.com: Life as Art. In the 1990’s, the Boston University College of Communication was one of the first colleges in the nation to teach a course in new media technologies. I was one [...]
Still life composition with Armani.
To live life as art, attunement and scale are the essentials, not the resources of a financier or industrialist. Many images of beauty that I create—my handiwork—cost nothing at all, or very little, and yet, I live life to the fullest.
I have always appreciated the thought and effort cosmetics companies place [...]
My Neo-Zen garden.
Throughout literature, the garden has represented sanctuary. Voltaire’s world-weary Candide retired to cultivate his garden, contented with the philosophy of living a simple life, “all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.” The gardens I have cultivated in our various homes have always been contemplative spaces, an escape [...]
My currency is creativity, ideas, and innovation. For me as a writer/artist, the process of writing a book is the process of creating a work of art. Given the upheaval in the publishing industry and the cross-platform promotion of content—in a world that is becoming increasingly impermanent—I can foresee a time when the concept of [...]
Photograph and pens made of exotic woods by Joseph Yu.
My husband, Joseph Yu, has always impressed me with his brilliant combination of artistry and technical precision. His background includes architecture at Cornell University and e-business at IBM. He also repairs and maintains his own vehicles. Then, just two weeks ago, he took up a [...]
The salon at our operatic home in Windham, New Hampshire, an exurb of Boston.
StrangeTango.com’s literary/artistic aesthetic is at the nexus of art, modern culture, and politics. As a global platform for emerging voices, innovation, and creativity, guest columnists write about what they’re passionate about—that celebrates and commemorates their life, voice, or purpose.
An organic [...]
StrangeTango.com: Life as Art is the personal website/blog of A. D. Tejada, a Filipino American feminist and first generation immigrant in America’s heartland who is Ivy League-educated, has lived in 7 major American cities, and has traveled through 35 countries on 5 continents.
At the nexus of art, culture, and politics, StrangeTango.com presents an innovative vision [...]
Me, at the time I began writing Strange Tango.
The destinies of a pantheon of gifted Cornell graduates unfold through the internet.
After my niece had graduated from pre-kindergarten several years back, she started summer classes at vacation bible school where she saw Luke, a former classmate who had left the class to be home-schooled in [...]
Moulton Brown's New Age Traveler kit
New Age Traveler is an excerpt from Millennium Muse, my book of narrative nonfiction, essays, and observations.
My favorite travel agent booked me for automatic electronic upgrades to first class, so on two round trip legs between Manchester, New Hampshire, and Chicago, air travel was sheer bliss. On the second [...]
Our home in Windham, New Hampshire
Nest is an excerpt from Millennium Muse, my book of narrative nonfiction, essays, and observations.
Except for the house in Somerville, which Joseph bought with our best man at our wedding as the first real estate project for flipping, I have always located the properties and negotiated the purchase of [...]
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