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"You have developed a brand new kind of art, one that is reflective of the healing work that you've been called upon to do."
Hana Coast Gallery, Maui, HI

Thanks for coming!

Pull up a chair and sit a minute. I want to share something with you. Can I get you something to drink, or...? Great...let's just chat for a minute then...

This whole photography thing has turned my life upside down!

I've been a photographer since my mid-twenties; a personal pleasure and joy sorta thing, some press exposure. Was official Still Photography for my movie, Healer   Had a darkroom for a while. Loved the process!

When I moved to Maui, I was focused on the communicating and teaching end of the healing arts. While on Oahu, I had polished my book about my experiences as a paramedic, and then I moved to Maui specifically with the intent of setting up a counseling  practice and my workshop, The heART of the Healer .

That was not to be quite yet because, as you'll soon learn here and in the galleries, my photography took a bounce into the Twilight  Zone!

For a while there, I thought I was an Artiste. WHEW! that was a close call!

It could be that after so many years in the healing arts, I have trouble interpreting anything that comes through me as other than a gift to be used as a tool for healing.

So, when it came to going out there and selling my images, I was a total failure! I gave away hundreds of prints to subjects that I photographed at public gatherings. It was my joy to share the spirits in them that I was so priveleged to capture.

If you haven't yet, check out the full e-mail Patrick Robinson, Curator/Director of Hawaii's most prestigious art gallery sent me regarding my art. He articulated clearly my dilemma while both praising my work and rejecting it at the same time. Go figure!

I literally spent the next two years of my life re-working my understanding of  who I am as a healer. My task was to integrate what came through me in these images into the larger picture of my work in the healing arts. This website is the result!

And after all the gyrations, I ended up looking at what was really happening with my relationship with my artwork.

After two years of showings in a number of island galleries I pulled all my work out, built at13 collector agent art heal image photo dealer gallery/studio/treatment room in my home and then began using my Giclées from thestoryofthis... almost exclusively for counseling sessions. I would only sell the art from that series to people to whom they were meaningful, to those in need, or those who would use them as much more than decoration.
They are not decoration; they are healers in their own way.

These images were not designed by me. They appeared by a fortuitous, accidental, mechanical screw-up of my printer, assisted by an out-of-date computer. I really didn't know what I was doing at the time I "shot"  thestoryofthis... I had no idea how to anticipate, let alone plan the effects that I ended up getting.

In working with them as counseling tools, I am clear that the images fulfill their role: to be metaphoric mirrors of what is living inside of the viewer in the moment. I did not create that role, I only recognized that's what was happening.

So I built a website  to make this first series available to anyone who wishes to use them as a tool to explore their inner territory -- without me or anyone else getting in the way!
 YES! I believe these images know what they're doing!
(Primarily because YOU know what you're doing!)

In the process of learning (by reverse-engineering) what I had done with that series, I became aware of the technique necessary -- in choice of light, composition, and production to produce images that conveyed a "here/not here" quality.

I then learned how to sharpen "all" my eyes to recognize the right moments dealer agent art heal collector premium photo imageto photograph and began building another series, now called Images for Healing

That series is evocative too, but because I knew better what I was doing, I won't present them as the clear channel that I recognize thestoryofthis... to be. In this very moment, I'm going to tag another descriptor onto the Images for Healing; they are Inspirational as well, and that may very well be an expression of my own more conscious orientation as a healer!

Obviously, my artistic/healing expressions have not stopped with these two series.  In fact, I will be consistently adding new images to this web site, many in slide show form for ease of viewing. Each image will be identified by name or number.

But there's not a one of them that is not infused with my primary tool as a healer -- the Intent that they be vehicles of healing. And the freeing part of it for me is that I'm leaving it up to you to decide which image or images are useful to you. Pick what you want, e-mail me, and we'll work on getting it or them to you.
So, that's what the images on this site are,
that's what they do! I have no doubt that they'll work
as hard for you and the people with whom you connect
as they do for me and mine!

Please consider a purchase of one or more of these images as an investment.  Here are more tools that will help you and the people with whom you are in connection have better access to the still-small voices that guide you.
You just watch the people moving from your waiting room, where the images are displayed, into your treatment room.

 They'll bring in curiosities or insights to you just as if they had engaged in stimulating conversation with other people waiting with them.
And you'll chuckle to yourself because you know the waiting room was empty -- except for them!


 For all of us, in support of health and happiness,

Mitakuye Oyasin!

Russ Reina,
a firetender
 

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