ARIEL

Professional fine artists' model; butoh dancer. 
BACK IN SEATTLE

Focus on artistic & avant garde nudes. 
Motion studies, location-based concepts, messy/real/freeform nudes.

Wide range of posing styles and experience. I work best with minimal direction-- give me a cue and let me explore. Open to classic nudes, fashion, glamour, fetish, pseudo-trash, total trash, total experiments.

However, my inherant 'feel' is more pre-Raphaelite by way of very slow feral wolves.  My best collaborations are with artists, sickos, quiet eyes. 

As for the nudity: I know what works with my own body by itself.  I'm not going to pretend it's super-exciting for me to GET NAKED-- I do it constantly.  Professional boundaries are STRICT. 

Butoh is a style of dance born out of post-Hiroshima Japan.  However, butoh is neither 'dance' nor strictly Japanese.  It's the essense of expression, awareness beyond the human-- "the body that has not been robbed". Dancers typically perform near-nude, covered in clay or white paint.   I have studied and performed with various 'masters' of the form.  It's made me at home in my skin and able to treat a shoot as a performance in itself.

For TFP/CD projects-- you've probably heard from me already-- otherwise, not interested. 

Hair is currently waist-length.  No tattoos or piercings, au naturale.  Scars from heart surgery as a child, but very faint and easily photoshopped if you're into revision. 


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ARIEL@openvein.com

Butoh training at various workshops in Japan & US. 
 
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Years of fine art modeling for schools, classes, artists, all mediums.  Quick gestures up to 4-hr single-session poses/ 3-4 week extended poses for atelier.  Art history backround, butoh, yoga, excellent balance. Quaker upbringing in which I learned how to hold still peacefully like a champ.  Non-camera artists, please be in touch.

ARTWORKS magazine Spring 08

Second Skin fashion show, ExplOratorium, SF, Spring 08

Gage summer catalog 2007

2 images by Thomas Parks accepted into 2007 Seattle Erotic Art Festival

Drawing Jam superhero, Gage Academy of Art, Nov 2006

Featured model on Localviewfinder(dot)com, March 2006

Work with Jim Duvall accepted into 2006 Seattle Erotic Arts Festival

Work with David Oliver published in book, The Naked Eye 1, 2006

11/05  model for AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Art)'s "Drawing Under the Influence" at the Rendezvous, Seattle, & 2006 for DUI 2 at the Spitfire

Modeled for bronze sculpture commission-- permanent public artwork in U District of Seattle. 

Art model for Bare Images 2005, art exhibit/event at LARC nudist camp.

Hair model for Rusk convention show, Portland, summer 2003
Haircut on stage.

"Rangefinder" photography magazine, October 2005 issue, model for John Rettie's article on 3-D digital photography

John Bartlett's 2006 'Model Next Door' calender

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Filmwork & theatre includes:

* 365 Plays/ 365 Days, daily street theatre, Seattle 6/07
* CinemAUTOMATICA, experimental play at UCLA 5/07
* "Tango EXILE", 2005, Deep Blue Productions, dir. Carlo Tanne
* Slugfest series of nude chess lessons, with Victoria Anisova, dir. Clint Ballard, 2/06

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Have done a billion shoots over the last few years, never received images from many.  Process vs product?  I used to keep a full list of collaborations here, until I realized I couldn't remember who half the people were. 

All-time favorites:

Arno- Matt Haber, MM #3064 
Art & Beauty (Seattle)
Art Horse, MM #129791
David Beckley, MM #279705

Ron Chapple of Getty Images (in Seattle)
Deux Chevaux, MM #122309
Robert Dunbar, MM #216105
Jim Duvall- Warehouse Studio, MM #72028
Jesse Edwards (Seattle)
Tommy Edwards (Seattle)

Nerio Festa (Sonoma, CA)
Steven Gelberg, MM #102330
Gibbous Fashions
Demetrius González, MM #224552
Dan Greene/ Casserole, MM #27486
D.M. Gremlin, MM #9546

Todd Hido (Oakland)
Jerantino, MM #87331
Lighthouse Studios, MM #118803

Greg McGonagill, MM #36243
Mr Wizard, MM #69699
Daniel Murtagh (in San Francisco)
Vahid Naziri MM #295944

David Oliver (in Seattle)
"Mystery Cat" Chris Peterson, MM #83993

Thomas Park, MM #125904
Pink Beauty, MUA, MM #131417
PJ Reptilehouse: Mark Fisher, MM #96916
Raven's Laughter
Kevin Rolly, MM #97919
Studio Imago, MM #55986

Tina Su- www.tinasu.com (Seattle)
SweatNapper, MM #020432
Alan Waldner (Oakland)

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BEFRIENDING: I will add you ONLY if we've worked together or we might-- i.e. you are in the BAY or somewhere I travel to (Seattle, LA, Portland, Baltimore), or you plan to come here in the near future.  Or if you're major inspiration.  I prefer reality-based communication and friendship.  Thanks anyway!