User:Mike paul halle

Michael P Hallé

Canadian Born Welland, Ontario, Canada

Formerly General Manager of the Papaya Playa A Design Hotels Project. http://www.papyaplayaproject.com/ in Tulum, Q-Roo, Mexico. I am a Writer and an Artist. Presently I am researching and writing a book called Circular Time: The Story of the Contemporary Maya in the Yucatan of Mexico. Spending time with my writing, art and the Sustainable Riviera Maya organization. Based in Papaya Playa Project a Design Hotels partner in Tulum.

My painting style is a combination of both Abstract Expressionism and Representational Expressionism, where I move through a painting with the energy and emotion manifested in the Moment. The best point of reference for my work is the vibrant New York School of Abstract Expressionism evolved from Paris during late 1940's. New York City became the center of a period of cultural transformation in America. The very evolution of the New York School can be credited to such artistic luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler, to name a few. In mid-2012 I began to express a new dimension of Aboriginal manifestation and in doing so now find unique style for my work which I am having a lot of fun with as I discover the inner-child at play! I continue to study Anthropology, Archaeology, and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Toronto. I work with the (c) Maya First Nations in Mexico's Yucatan. My goal is to help develop sustainable destination tourism programming while honouring and acknowledging Indigenous cultures, their heritage, and the biodiversity which are the corner stones of sustainability and the very essence of the successful tourism brands of the future.

My aim is to help sensitize the traveling public to the issues and impacts of tourism to the ecosystem, biodiversity, and host cultures.

Mother Earth has so much to teach us and I am happy to share all that I have been blessed to learn.