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Maya Joelle

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  • Portrait of Joelle enacting a pose which represents the “pure potential” of what is meant to be born through her, “a song, a poem, a dish, a drawing, an embrace” and “her deepest dreams”. She came to Asheville in 2004 and has felt "more fully at home than anywhere else".