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Transformations — A Photo Essay
The day we found the snakeskin
A few years ago, my partner and I spent a few months nestled in a rural ocean-side town in Mexico. The house we stayed in was perched high up a hill overlooking the ocean. It was open to the elements and had a palm-thatched roof.
For months, we’d been moving through all kinds of transformations and changes. We were both getting used to the new life we created after we sold our apartment, quit our jobs, and went traveling. It was frightening and exhilarating at the same time.
A few months after we arrived at this house, we found this snake-skin right outside our door. I couldn’t believe how beautiful and intact it was. I knew I had to do a photo with the skin as it really summed up our transformative time better than words could ever do. To find the snake-skin felt like medicine; a culmination of many months of change and hard work.
There were many moments where we could have given up during our travels. We went through serious illness, injury, conflicts, and fears upon fears. But we had to see it and feel it and dig it all up so we could let it go. The dark green jungle and all its creatures and medicinal plants stripped and cleaned us and put us back together again.
