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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...  |
Ricky Harrison designed and built his pool. One of the most beautiful pools I have ever seen during my global travels belongs to my friend Ricky Harrison, co-owner of Naturescape Nursery and Custom Landscaping in Lawton, Oklahoma, the epicenter of the new American heartland. Ricky designed his pool on several levels with depth, [...] I first knew Whitney Nance Perry as the daughter of my childhood friend and classmate, Ron Nance. When I returned home to Lawton to be with my family, after more than a decade living in the Boston area, my husband Joseph and I purchased a lovely home in one of the most desirable neighborhoods [...] 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 [...] Duncan, Oklahoma is home to oil millionaires and Halliburton management. The neighborhoods are among the finest to be found in the entire state and country, with large houses in a variety of architectural styles nestled among the cul-de-sacs and heavily tree-lined streets. Ricky Harrison, Naturescape One of the most impressive properties belongs to [...]  The great room of the 2010 Showcase Home. A builder featured on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Ron Nance belongs to an elite brotherhood. The President/CEO of The Oaks Development Company brings his signature touch in fine homebuilding to one of the strongest luxury home markets in the country, my hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma. Continue reading The Oaks 2010 Showcase Home  My mother's secret courtyard garden that I created for her. A secret courtyard garden for my mother reminiscent of the tropical paradise where she was born, a spot where she could sit outdoors in the shade and inhale the familiar fragrances that remind her of her native home. I always give creative gifts, and this one was designed to fill the senses. Because my mother is from the beautiful Visayan islands of the Philippines, I wanted the natural and authentic look of the provinces. Beauty there is to be found in the rusticity of orchid plants decoratively hanging from trees or peering from a container wedged into a wall, in the harmony of ocean breezes, blue sky, lush greenery, and colorful flora. Continue reading The Secret Courtyard Garden  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 from the stressors and tedious demands of modern life, where people are quick to defend their positions rather than to actually communicate with one another. There is something essential and fundamental about being a part of nature and losing one’s self in the sensory delights to be found among what is green, vital, and growing. At one time, I lived in and near Boston and was on a career track. My gardens in a pastoral exurb of Boston occupied more than an acre of abutting conservation land that could never be built upon. When I returned to my hometown in southwest Oklahoma, I simplified my life and made the transition from activism to artistry. Relocating to the Southwest region of the country, we moved to the city where my gardening space in a carefully manicured, prestigious neighborhood occupies a quarter of an acre, more an outdoor room than a garden to tend. Somehow, the metamorphosis seems appropriate given the austerity, the insularity, of our political and economic times. Although I relinquished space, variety, and stimulation, I gave up little else beyond scale. My Neo-Zen sensibility is, at heart, my way of focusing on what is important, meaningful, and relevant to me. I create beauty through various media—writings, images, food, and gardens—as a portal to transcendence; within the constraints of scarcity, sustainability is attained through optimization. My garden lends itself to the elaboration of this elegant concept and worldview. Continue reading My Neo-Zen Garden 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 [...]  Our home in Windham, New Hampshire Nest is an excerpt from Millennium Muse, my book of narrative nonfiction, essays, and observations.
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