Loren Haynes is a multi-modality artist. He is known for his work as an award-winning photographer, actor, songwriter, and award-winning writer-director. He began his career in New York City, but his work took him to Los Angeles, London, and back to NYC. Santa Fe, New Mexico become refuge from city life and a creative space. Settling there in 2015 with a new family, he found himself professionally a fish out of water. His creative work was infused by the energy of city life. In Santa Fe, he felt and absorbed the quiet, spiritual energy of the Southwest's multicultural existence, especially that of Native American cultures and ways of understanding. "Its a huge transition coming from the city to the quetness of New Mexico, but the power of the expansiveness of the land and its history consumes you, the sounds of car horns are replaced by the howling of Coyotes, and the dead silence that provides space for the soul to listen. Eventually, I found myself looking up to the skies, not unusual in New Mexico, but when I began to explore more closely with my camera, and while often on the road, I began to see that there was a history and life taking place in the skies. We look to the sky to pray, we look up to the sky when we have loved ones who transition to the next life. I found a spiritual life that continues and moves constantly. So in order tocapture what I see has to be done, now! These works are those moments." I came to believe that there is a life that exists for us to see and learn from, one that has no past or future, while at the same time exists for us to learn from. The ingenious people teach us that, and I am trying to find my way through it, with the help of those much wiser than us. I am grateful and humbled by the lessons of the our ingenious cultures and respect they hold for the mother earth anbd her teachings" In every shifting cloud lies an older language — one that remembers us, even when we forget to listen. The sky speaks not of endings, but of returns. Through these skies, I explore the sacred conversation between land,light, and spirit. Each cloud carries memory, each horizon, a whisper of prayer. In the heightened light, there is both ending and beginning a world imagined after the noise, returning to the quiet truths the ancestors knew." — Loren Haynes