En la Quinta Luisana

By 2004, after grad school, I was still focusing on interiors. I found this to be a wonderful reprieve for me during my first trip to Valencia. Being immersed in a language in which one is not fluent is exhausting. It's thrilling, and hands-down the best way to learn. But every tiny human interaction requires THOUGHT and EFFORT. We really take for granted how automatically we behave in our native cultural and linguistic contexts.

So, my interest in interiors gave me some quiet time, away from the frustrations and triumphs of trying to communicate verbally, and allowed me instead to immerse myself in what my eyes could see and camera could record . . . It was the most fluent way in which I could communicate. For a change.