Heather Moeller, our 26th redhead photographed for Redhead Project Virtual
in May 2021 at her home in Georgetown, Texas.

We chatted with Heather by Zoom to get her thoughts on her 2 virtual photoshoots., excerpted below. 

View our conversation on redheadproject.net/interviews

“First, I love to laugh. That's one of my favorite things in this world. And so there's me laughing, which is probably a very common facial expression for me. I am wearing my  Chandler Ranch t-shirt. Chandler Ranch is a place that is incredibly special to my family. Joe Chandler was very dear friends with my grandfather Bill cast Stevens. And so that place, which is in the heart of west Texas, about two hours south of Odessa, is super special. I love being outside. And we have this huge limestone pile here. And so I'm constantly out in the yard moving things around, and it's taking me a very long time to get through this limestone pile. But I've got my trusty wheelbarrow there. And one detail I actually didn't notice before, but I notice now is that the wheelbarrow says true temper. And so I think that's also kind of funny. 

And so there's me laughing and then doing stuff outside, which I love to do. And then there are my three daughters in the background there. My older daughter is 21, a senior in college, beginning her adult life, and so she is still very close and connected to us as her family, but we know that she's ready to go on and do great things. And I hope that me doing what I want to do, me having joy for life is an inspiration to her as she starts on her path. And then my twins who 16 are turned around texting. And that's kind of funny because I mean, anybody that has a teenage child can relate to that.”

Pop Up Poppy Cards

“Well, I think really it starts with the phrase that you see in the lower left hand corner, the year of Heather doing whatever she wants. This was something that really just came into my life at about 38. I was about 38, and a lot of young professional moms. It was just so much of what was driving my day to day functioning was what other people needed me to do, whether that be family or occupationally. It was just little room for joy and spontaneous fun. I started getting back into things that I loved as a younger person with art and just playing with paper. And I discovered an entity called the Movable Book Society, and it was like, oh, these are my people. I'm a fan of paper engineers and just the thought that goes into, I have this image in my mind of something beautiful, some artwork, but then taking it to the next level and I'm going to make this artwork move.”

It's very important to Georgetown, ISD that we are including every student and giving them a meaningful education. And so the equity leadership team works with a community equity team, and so there are 18 members of that and really just kind of advising the team of what's going on in the community. And there are people that just freely donate their time that some of them have students in the district, but some of them don't. And they just really care about this community and the society. And so to thank them for them just collaborating with us out of their own free will, the benefits of hearing from them, we sent them these red poppy cards [I made] at the end of the year.

Pop Up Tea Cup

I had a lot of fun with this one. I was making cards with the thought of, Hey, you could invite your friend to have a cup of coffee or go out for tea or something. And so I created this popup teacup, and then it's very hard to read the actual words, but kind of paying homage to my nineties alternative teenage roots. So there are the lyrics to a Blind Melon song:. “All I can do is just pour some tea for two and speak my point of view. But it’s not sane.”

Pilates Studio Portraits 

Idea origin: 

I was kind of thinking that I would be doing some kind of fun Pilates pose, but have two things in my hands. One a literal empty nest that I can get from a craft store, and the other is my favorite mental health book of the moment by a psychiatrist named Gabor Mate called the myth of normal. It’s a big bright pink book that would show up well.