Art and Music by Stephen Winters
We are so proud and happy to offer you an entrée into Stephen’s world. Stephen Winters is a fine artist, yogi, teacher, tattoo artist, musician, and falconer, just to name a few of this man’s talents. Founder of the nonprofit White Wolf Wellness with his partner and yogini, Katherine Winters, these two are present in the world in an awesome way. Throw in farmers and wisdom keepers and you have just a peek into their awesomeness. Katherine and Stephen offer sound meditations, yoga, and youth education programs on how to care for the earth, at their retreat in Bakersfield, California. They are incredible friends and protégés of White Lotus Foundation.
Stephen has offered us a sound meditation to share from his forthcoming album that coincides with his one man show entitled, The Animal I Forgot I Was, opening August 29th at the RAM Gallery.
Opening alongside the exhibition is a new ambient music release built from electronic composition, live instrumentation, and sounds gathered from the natural environment. Together, the music and visual work ask a simple question: What part of ourselves have we forgotten by living as though we are separate from nature?
Stephen writes of the show and music, The Animal I Forgot I Was is a new exhibition exploring our often forgotten connection to the natural world. Created through years of close observation and life along the Kern River, the show brings together large-scale graphite drawings, paintings, field observations, and sound—moving between animals, landscape, the human body, and abstraction.
You can find Stephen’s musical work on Soundcloud.