Happy & Pappy
Objects, images, and narratives.
Slowly made, honestly shared by Michael + Rhoda Todoran
Since 1989
Two kids living down the street from each other in West Los Angeles fell in love one summer. One beach cruiser with her on the handlebars. Their first kiss at Lifeguard Station 27, Santa Monica Beach.Before they went their separate ways, Michael wrote Rhoda a note:
“You will go far in life and hopefully I’ll be in the picture, someplace sometime. If we ever drift, find me and hold on tight.”Then they drifted.Different cities, countries and continents. Many breakups and various jobs. Long stretches of becoming who they were meant to be.Twenty years passed.
She found him.Over one long weekend, they stepped back into something that had been waiting.Seventeen years later, they’ve made a life in many places, raised a son, and are still making things side by side.
Home has always been each other, and they’re still holding on tight.
DNA
Creativity runs through us. Long before there was a name for it, there were love letters with drawings folded inside, poems passed back and forth in junior high.
Life carried us apart, but the current never left.When our son was born, it surfaced again at the kitchen table — pencils, paper, ideas moving easily between three people. Something shared. Something alive.In Japan, it followed us to Naoshima Island — sketchbooks in hand, moving quietly through the galleries, each of us seeing differently and then coming back together.Manifesting Generators, according to Human Design. It fits.
We spark, we build, we move. One idea becomes three.
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