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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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MANTRA:
“She writes about emotion as a connoisseur of states of mind.” ~ Raphael Seligmann

12 MUSES platforms: ►Life as Art ‒ StrangeTango.com repository ►SHOWCASE ‒ interviews inspired by passion, innovation, and leadership ►Edgy and Ethereal ‒ Strange Tango’s iconic style ►CONNECTORS ‒ guest columnists, individuals, and concepts that link our world ►Millennials ‒ written for and by the digital generation ►Multicultural ‒ written for and by the multicultural community ►Neo-Zen ‒ elegant, eclectic, minimalist, surprising ►Art ‒ creativity and self expression ►Nest ‒ sanctuary ►Food ‒ a foodie’s discoveries, recipes and dining reviews ►Traveler ‒ insights from a traveler and citizen of the world ►Green ‒ gardening and sustainability
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Illumination. Inspiration. Innovation. Magic...

VISITOR COMMENT: ►"Hey Audrey - I finally got around to checking out your StrangeTango.com website, and I was absolutely astounded at how powerful it was! Congratulations, and I can't wait to read more on your blog! Definitely deserving of a Webby! Really impressive..." Boston, MA

Artist as Seer…

An early ambition was that I might enter politics or academia, or become a diplomat/lawyer/corporate executive with an international career. But my perspective has always been one of multiplicity: it felt more natural to me to see the interrelatedness of humanity than to become an expert specializing in a fragment of the universe. [...]

Timeline

I’m unveiling my new Facebook Timeline on the first day of the Winter Solstice!

The cover photo includes symbols associated with my literary novella, Strange Tango, the namesake of the first literary conceptual art installation in cyberspace — Strange Tango: Life as Art. I’ve been experimenting with ambitious and multilayered new forms of [...]

A. D. Tejada, Founder

 

My husband, Joseph Yu, made this business card for me!

Joseph is a National Merit Semi-Finalist from Brookline High School in Massachusetts who studied in the undergraduate professional architecture program at Cornell before spending his entire career at Lotus Development / IBM in Cambridge. He also designed, remodeled and renovated the real [...]

Tango Turning Two

Bangkok, Thailand in Strange Tango's signature blues

 

Strange Tango’s 2nd birthday is coming up, and we’re planning a splashy online celebration. Before we went live, our Editor-at-Large Raphael Seligmann looked into my soul…and this is what [...]

The Millennium’s New, Multicultural American Heartland

Five years ago, I relocated from a Boston exurb to my hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma. In the space of a year, the national spotlight focused on Oklahoma and this city of approximately 100,000 located in the Texoma region between Oklahoma City and the Texas border.

With the steady supply of newsworthy stories from the [...]

Raphael's Sestina for Audrey

Raphael Seligmann

The true measure of friendship is constancy over time and space. Ever since we were undergraduates at Cornell University, Raphael Seligmann has been one of my dearest friends and kindred spirits. Through the years, his presence and influence have so seamlessly been interwoven into my life that I once had to [...]

Pats, Playoffs and Predictions

A literary artist’s interpretation… As a student of the game and a longtime New England Patriots fan and observer, I was on the right side of my 2011 NFL playoff picks and predictions 12 out of 13 times. I don’t look at statistics and records when I make my pronouncements: as a literary artist [...]

Happy New Year 2011

I made these festive desserts for our recent party.

I have traveled to 35 countries and have lived in 7 major American cities, but when faced with the choice of where to make my permanent home I settled on a town that I consider to be the new millennium’s American heartland.

In essence, [...]

Thanks for the Accolades

We feel like Cinderella...

Thank you...we feel like Cinderella.

I wanted to share these beautifully worded sentiments about the Strange Tango website/blog from friends and visitors around the globe… ~A.

“It is stunning. I don’t recall ever seeing a more beautiful, artistic expression on the web. Congratulations to you and your friends/colleagues on constructing such a beautiful installation. Truly an inspiring artwork.” California

“Stunning. Congratulations to all of you. What beautiful images and animation. Loved the video.  Warm applause for you, Audrey, on day #1 of a new online journey… Strangely fitting, somehow, that tonight coincides with the Perseids meteor shower.” Cambridge, MA

“What you have done with StrangeTango.com is truly incredible. In seeking your own purpose in life, you are assisting others in doing the same, both through your own example and, perhaps most powerfully, by creating an environment which is unprecedented Continue reading Thanks for the Accolades

Still Life with Armani

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 [...]