Photography by Todd Scott

Taos Pueblo - 100,000 acres of protected sacred land surrounds the oldest continually inhabited community in the U.S. and the enduring energy source of Taos

Ansel and Georgia

It is palpable here—the grounding energy of the land, the connection to centuries of creatives; a culture of freedom seekers. This Vata energy brings your awareness back to your own sacred vision. The Pueblo people believe the earth is “imbued with the breath, thoughts and feelings of all who have walked on it,” a transfer point of energy where there is no time barrier.

Abiquiu is the Western corner of a triangular space reaching to Taos and Santa Fe with lines passing through Ojo Caliente’s ancient natural hot springs, Hernandez, pictured in Ansel Adam’s “Moonrise” and Chimayo, the home of legendary weavers. 

This native land and the chapel there was long coveted by O’Keeffe, who after 15 years finally persuaded the convent to transfer occupancy to her in 1945. Her studio opened to the river valley below, and to Pedrenal behind, the mesa she introduced to the world through her paintings. She would travel by foot to Plaza Blanca, “The White Place” and by Model A Ford to “The Black Place,” the subjects of many of her works. 

Although well known, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams were not the first artists to feel a calling to Northern New Mexico for inspiration. Even they were beneficiaries of invitations to the area by other artists to collaborate.

The Love Apple

Aldous Huxley’s Cabin, Taos Goji Farm