Female

35

I am an artist of leather and stones - sacred animals skins and healing stones to be exact.

I help them rebirth, so people who needs healing or protection can use my art.

I have been a leather artist for 12 years.
I am a dancer. I love dancing at outdoor parties and raves, but I have never been formally taught.
I don’t have to think. I just dance… to express my feelings.

I dance with element of fire.
I love the sound of fire and how it warms.
Fire speaks and helps me find my center.
I now using leather for making my own costumes and fire tools*.
I express myself with everything I do.

I dance with fire.
I am made with water dancing with fire.
I feel balanced and peaceful when I dance.
I dance with drum beat; the heart beat - so I dance with heart.
I use each of my steps for massaging mother earth.
I feel one.
I dance for peace, I am a prayer.

Huichol father name me Tunurima “the prayer”.
I feel that I am still connected with them… forever.

I am Echo.

You my find photos of my work at myspace.com/dragonsbackbone. Please contact me if you are in the US and are interested in my art. If you are in Japan, you may visit Abacha to purchase my creations.

History

1997 - Graduated master of Haute-Couture Dress Making Tommy dress making technical school.
1997-2000 - start using leather, making medicine bags for “Fool The Hermit” Osaka Japan. 1997-2000 - Shop manager and art craft teacher @ stamp art shop in Osaka Japan.
1999 - Met Huichol shaman in the cremony of “The out of time “in Izena Okinawa Japan. [The impact of his healing lead her to travel across the boundaries of languages and borders to fulfill a promise to meet the healer once again ].
2000 - Left Japan for El Paso, Texas to study English.
2002-2003 - Study Spanish in Guanajuato, Mexico.
2003 - Lived with Huichol tribe
2003- Move to the woods of Wimberely, Texas. Start fire dancing.

2005 - Moved to Austin Texas.
2006 - January 1st. Joined the Sangre del Sol fire troupe. ( 1st night was my first fire show with Sangre del Sol)
2008-April. Created fire dance group "HINOTORI". touring everywhere in Japan.

*fire tools include fire umbrella, fire nails (sometimes called fire fingers), and fire rope and more.