APPARATUS, ACT V, ASFANEH. Dear Dreamer, For this collection I felt compelled to find a new way to work ... To shape curves over and over with my pen until  forms emerged from the ether as though they had  always been there.  To reach beyond a historical moment. To try to tell a story about life.  Life is shaped by cycles.  Creation and destruction.  The separation from self, and the return.  It’s in these cycles that this collection finds its rhythm.  The seed becomes the flower.  We gather to celebrate its dance with the sun and  breathe in the gift of its scent, however fleeting.  And at the center of this dance is the divine feminine.  The source, the creative force, the nurturer within each of us.  We dream a temple in the sky as the stage for our drama, brought to life in the body through the distilled language of Martha Graham, the mother  of modern dance.  We scent the air with notes of Damask Rose, Oud, and Frankincense, as a gesture of protection and potential.  These are the seeds from which our fable emerges.  AFSANEH is the Persian word for fable.  It is also my mother’s name.  We hope you will enjoy our offering, that you will hold the light, and that you will dance in the cycles.  Gabriel

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