smooth surfaces

sensing
energetic
signature
sweet
sensual
passionate
soul
poetry
confined
in
rusty
armor
of old 
stories…
fingertips
tracing
rough
edges
volcano
eager
to erupt
but determined
to stay 
dormant…
sharp
lava
leaves
paper cuts:
enough
blood.

leaving
rugged
terrain
behind
for
new
pages
of valleys
and water
words
worlds
meandering
gently
ever
so
freely
feeling
flowers…

the bodies
know.

{smooth surfaces}
hear it…

NEW: Ava’s Book Club

I love books and sharing them, so I decided to start a Book Club!! First book is “The Book of Qualities” by J. Ruth Gendler – pairing her beautiful personified descriptions of human qualities with simple daily moments in short YouTube videos. Enjoy and follow along if you are enjoying 🙂

Cherchez la femme

the hero’s journey/adventure quest redefined…

initiation/finding

Life-Death-Life
Cycle after cycle
The seeker
Follows Truth/Love
Open, trusting, forward moving
Shiny objects/illusions
Distractions/disguises
The simple obscured
The false worshiped
Pierce forth
With your sword
Annihilate the old
Courage to discern
Perseverance to act
Knowing to see without seeing
Brave
Bold
Blissful
Boundless Being
New horizons expand
Uncharted, your true land.

- Ava Sol


Ava Sol: A Buddha With A Twist ;-)

Go figure, I metamorphosed once again… finally fully accepted all responsibility/got used to the idea… so now I am a Buddha with a twist 😉

it’s a playlist, more “teachings” coming soon 😉

Sunday

– what do you desire?

  • to feel alive again… to not worry about anything… to live, really live… to be held by the sunshine… to breathe – fully, freely, fiery… to not deny myself… to be accepted…to embrace all… to make mistakes… to laugh… to kiss… to feel it all… to cry… to reach the depths of my sorrow… to soar to the heights of my joy… to fly… to play… to make love and be bliss… to stay there…entangled and entwined with another body that feels like mine…  my soul wide open to the ecstatic experience… presence permeating all… pervading… one with it all… existing as existence… endlessly unfolding into who i am… flowers, forests, flow… electricity in my veins… essence exuding fragrance… love, lover, loving, loved, love, lover, loving, loved, love, lover, loving, loved, love… depth

Again

you
yes
true
poetry
music
depth

{soul love}

You&I

A poem that came through like a flood… the image is setting sunlight flooding in my living room and reflecting off the laptop screen on the wall… so much beauty in the ordinary moments… endless poetry abounds…

I am that I am

I am that 
I am

the darkness and the light
the birth, the death, the flight
the joy, the sorrow and the pain,
the drought, the flood, the rain
the song, the melody, the vibe
the solitary wanderer, the tribe
the moon, the sun, the planets and the sky
the memory in every baby’s cry,
the plants, the trees, the birds, the bees,
the wound, the blood, the bliss, the kiss,
the thing that’s always here, and you always miss,
the river, the creek, the ocean and the sea,
the mountain, the valley, the abyss you never see,
the rose, the fox, the Little Prince, the snake, 
the resurrection and the wake,
the sunshine and the stars,
and maybe even Elon Musk and Mars
{no, this is not a fars}

or is it?…

keep going, 
and you will find out
what all of this
is all about

{or would you?}

to thine self 
stay true

finish… my… sentences…

This collection of self-portraits represents me coming to terms with the truth that I am enough and too much at the same time, and that’s perfectly fine/I would not have it any other way.

I co-created directly with the Sun, the images/videos are NOT EDITED at all, shot in Santa Barbara, CA in August/September 2022, natural light, natural body, natural raw real whole self.

How simple, yet hard to accept oneself completely. However, if/when you do everything somehow falls into place. 🙏❤️‍🔥☀️

click… {bait}

Stranger Than Fiction

A small collection of some of my self-portraits inspired by art I love 📖 ❤️🎞️☀️🎶

Playlist here.

Sweater Weather