MÉXICOLIGHT AND DARKNESS
Calla lilies on the outdoor worktable, December 12, 2024.
Palma Serena · Baja California SurTodos Santos · February 2027

The Dance of

Light and
Darkness

in the Landscape

Todos Santos
February 25–28, 2027

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Calla lilies
Tepetlixpa, December 2024

Our gracious guests at Palma SerenaTepetlixpa → Todos Santos
Tepetlixpa.Todos Santos.

Reading
the landscape.

To our gracious guests at Palma Serena: thank you. We invite you to return to Todos Santos, February 25–28, 2027.

We have grown distant from the natural world and its beauty. In that estrangement, people, land, and the life of the soul grow poorer.

We study the elements, the soil, and the farm as a living whole. Through work and observation, our relation to the land deepens.

01 / DECEMBER 2024TepetlixpaThe volcanic highlands 02 / JANUARY 2026Todos SantosThe oasis & the Pacific
Popocatépetl at first light, December 12, 2024.

01 / The highlands

We begin
in silence.

Tepetlixpa, MéxicoDecember 12–15, 2024

Rancho Mariana

Working
in the garden.

We work the beds together: weeding, loosening the soil, and planting.

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Rancho Mariana · Tepetlixpa, December 2024
We fill the horns with manure.
Biodynamic preparations

Into
the earth.

We bury the filled horns in the earth.
ChromatographyWe collect and dry soil samples. We prepare their images and study them together.
Banana flower. January 8, 2026.

Befriending the dark,
blossoming out of the deep.

Banana flower · Todos Santos

02 / The oasis

Palms.
Shade.
Possibility.

Todos Santos, Baja California Sur
January 2026

At Palma Serena, the shade of trees helps protect the garden from the drying force of the Sun. We gather beneath the trees.

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Shade at Palma Serena
Bougainvillea.
Flowers on the table, the morning of the gathering.
Our gracious guests.Palma Serena · January 10, 2026

03 / A closer look

Field notes.

Tepetlixpa · Todos Santos

18 photographs
01 / On the worktableTepetlixpa, 2024
02 / Into the treesTepetlixpa, 2024
03 / Our gracious guestsTodos Santos, 2026
04 / The PacificTodos Santos, 2026
05 / SilenceTepetlixpa, 2024
06 / ShadeTodos Santos
07 / We work the beds togetherTepetlixpa, 2024
08 / The elementsTepetlixpa, 2024
09 / By handTepetlixpa, 2024
10 / Into the earthTepetlixpa, 2024
11 / ChromatographyTepetlixpa, 2024
12 / FireTepetlixpa, 2024
13 / Blossoming out of the deepTodos Santos, 2026
14 / Color in the gardenTodos Santos, 2026
15 / Palma SerenaTodos Santos, 2026
16 / At the tableTepetlixpa, 2024
17 / Flowers on the tableTodos Santos, 2026
18 / Light on waterTodos Santos, 2026
Pacific surf during the Todos Santos visit, January 11, 2026.

04 / Our next gathering · Todos Santos

The Dance of
Light and Darknessin the Landscape

We invite you to study the dance of light and darkness in the landscape and in ourselves.

February 25–28, 2027

Ask about the gathering Pacific surf · January 11, 2026

The editions

México

Photographs, albums, and the visits to Tepetlixpa and Todos Santos.

México: The Dance of Light and Darkness in the Landscape, Todos Santos February 2027

The photographic edition · 20 pages

The Dance of
Light and Darkness

in the Landscape

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The companion record

The visits

People, activities, and travel from the 2024 and 2026 gatherings.

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Past gatherings.

December 12–15, 2024

Tepetlixpa

Soil Maturation and the Dynamics of Creation

Rancho Mariana

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January 10, 2026

Todos Santos

The Biodynamic Farm Organism

Palma Serena

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December 12–15, 2024

Tepetlixpa

Soil Maturation and the Dynamics of Creation
Rancho Mariana

Soil chromatography; preparation making; garden work and transplanting; horn filling and burial; elemental art with clay, water, and fire.

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January 10, 2026

Todos Santos

The Biodynamic Farm Organism
Palma Serena

Program topics: calendars, soil fertility, animals, and food from the garden.

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