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La Sirena en el Desierto - VOGUE

"In symbology, the great bodies of water express the place where life itself is thought to have originated.

In the Hispanic Southwest, the river symbolizes the ability to live, truly live. It is greeted as the mother, La Madre Grande, La Mujer Grande, the Great Woman, whose waters not only run in the ditches and riverbeds but spill out of the very bodies of women themselves.

Some in South Texas say El Rio Grande could never be a man river, but is a woman river.

They laugh and say, "How can a river be anything but the La Dulce Acequia, the sweet slot between the thighs of the earth?"

-Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run With the Wolves

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Wearing:

Necklace - Labradorite • Soul Ku

Earrings -Polymer Clay • Shamsi Styles

Bracelet- Lapis Lazuli bronze metal •Craig Planter, local artist in the Big Bend region

Dress- On the free porch in Terlingua Ghost Town, which inspired this photoshoot for National Mermaid Day!

Collaboration with Josh Markus. 

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LOCATION: Big Bend State Park and La Rio Grande