Myra Stevens

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One day you will read a book that will change your life. It won’t be some self-help bestseller or a psychology text, but an anthology of wildflowers, perhaps, or a novel about a city you will never set foot in. One day you will take up a new hobby, a new dance class that cracks you open and teaches you something about yourself; perhaps composting that whispers to you every morning with its sweet aroma of decay that new life is possible and old life nourishes—even if it’s slow work. One day you will meet someone who you didn’t know was a type of person that could exist. It will crush you and grow you all at once. Suddenly, people like this will be everywhere, and a whole new plane of people you didn’t know could exist will open up to you to encounter in future moments. One day devastation will meet you in ways you didn’t think possible, and all you will do is laugh, because you spent too much time worrying about tragedies that never happened, and the tragedies that did come to pass you could never have prepared for. Now, in this moment, the person who is capable of taking these trials on has been born, dirty, screaming, but alive.

This photo, titled ‘Camino Field’, was taken on an Olympiad Stylus with Kodak Color Film, on the final 50 kilometers of the Camino De Santiago outside of Pontevedra, Spain. The tail end of a journey taken by thousands of people over the centuries. 

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Myra Stevens is an artist from Southern Arizona. She holds a masters degree in Public Health from the University of Arizona, and works as a Public Health Professional.