“Our path to consciousnessmust be found in life.”

"Ariel has found hundreds of what shamans would call power spots using silence and stillness in conditions of extreme heat and light. Black-and-white infrared film has provided her a means to capture her visions. Ariel's study of shamanism has provided a philosophical and metaphysical foundation for her journeys to deserts around the world, but her true insight concerning the vibrational hot spots she has photographed comes from a communication that summons her. According to Ariel, the recordable vibration that is found in all of nature is most pronounced in the desert...

"Ariel has traveled extensively through the American West and has photographed hundreds of locations that represent an expression of the Earth's subtle and invisible energy veins that shamans would call spirits. Shown in this portfolio are the gypsum sand dunes at White Sands National Monument near Alamogardo, New Mexico and the rock surfaces at the Petrified Forest National Park in northeast Arizona."