The Only Way Out of Melancholy is Through. © 2024, Meri Aaron Walker, iPhoneArtGirl. Phoenix, OR. All rights reserved. 

I’m packing Maxi today (July 31) and getting on the road in the morning.

Those of you who are following my life journey since the Alameda Fire took my home and everything I owned  -- save two shopping bags (with immediate meds, my iPhones and iPads, my electric brush and toothbrush, and a few odd papers that were on my kitchen counter) and Blaze -- you already know the backstory.

It’s you who have helped me through the searing transition from who I used to be to who I am today. Your unfathomable kindness has changed everything about me - save the fact that I’m still an avid iPhone photographer and mobile artist. I assume the reason you’re here is that you’re still interested in connecting around our mutual love of mobile imaging and the feelings that arise when we make our images and view others’. 

I can’t promise I’m going to make this some kind of “travel blog” because it’s just too much work to drive a 31-foot rig alone at seventy-one and take on another joy. Especially without Blaze.

I can’t promise I’ll even post images or thoughts every day. What I share here is going to depend on how much energy I have left after I take care of what’s right in front of me (or under my butt in the rig) or right outside Maxi (the rig) or around Minnie (my ebike) wherever we’re stopping for a meal, a night or a day.

What I will promise, though, is that I’ll share when I can what I’m finding most beautiful, most surprising, most exciting, most useful and most inspiring as I make my way with Maxi and Minnie on the path we’re traveling from Oregon to Cape Cod... and beyond.

I’m making this trip to see what shows up inside me as I separate from Oregon, literally and metaphorically. I’m doing it in a relatively large RV because that’s what I’ve got to call home now. I don’t have any idea what’s ahead. Certainly, I’ve made a route map. But I don’t know if I’ll be able to follow it this summer with Covid and wildfires and other storms raging around us all, tearing at the fabric of our country. Regardless, I have a sense that just making the separation from southern Oregon for awhile is going to help me feel and see better what to do with the rest of my one wild and precious life.

I know I will see at least some of you down the road and I hope to see a lot of you. Those of you whose paths don’t happen literally to cross mine, I hope you will use the commenting spaces here to keep our connection fresh and alive. I need to hear how my shares land with you and what you make of them. I need to hear (and see) how your lives are moving along, too.

Video Lifts: 3 Portraits That Began With IPhone Video. © 2017, Meri Aaron Walker, iPhoneArtGirl. Talent, OR. All rights reserved. 

A whole new way of seeing, courtesy a brilliant lesson from David Scott Leibowitz on seeing with motion pictures. From our maiden voyage teaching in Tommy, in NYC, March 1, 2017. 

5   4 SEATS LEFT in my upcoming Online 5-Day iPhoneography Intensive, July 6-10th. 

I’ve planned this week to be a high-touch Mobile Photography Summer Camp (from home).

Safer, easier and cheaper than traveling... and BIG FUN! I promise we won’t be spending all our time staring at each other on Zoom. Lots of hands-on and collaborative practice all week!

“On the Patio, Day After Memorial Day” was featured on May 27th on Pixels At An Exhibition.com

“Doing Senior Portraits, No Matter What” was paired with Bird Gerhl by Anthony and the Johnsons on May 18th by Knox Bronson on Pixels At An Exhibition. What a PERFECT pairing!

May 11th, “It’s Late in the Evening And the Music’s Seeping Through” was featured on Pixels At An Exhibition.