Mari studied biochemistry in Los Angeles during the mid-1970s. On weekends she would test her physical limits on the rocks in and around Southern California at Stoney Point, Suicide and Tahquitz Rocks and Joshua Tree.
Gingery found that the landscape of the Mojave Desert, with its distant vistas, offered her a counterbalance to the intense focus that she brought to her work, something that resonated well into her next phase in life. At 63 years old she still has the energy to send.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegard
