The star of Apneatic was nicknamed Apnea by her husband as he finds that she takes one’s breath away. It makes more sense than what first comes to mind, which for me is the sleep disorder of the same name. Once you see her beauty captured in the site’s fine fetish photography of her husband “Lithium Dream” and other photogs, you’ll be far from snoring so loudly as to wake yourself up.

We asked Apnea: Generally, Texas is often portrayed as an ultraconservative state in the mainstream media, often in an overly negative fashion. Having never visited myself, I don’t know whether such a perception is accurate but have you ever wanted to live somewhere else?

Apnea answered: I’ve lived in Texas my whole life. There’s lots of things about it that I dislike, but that’s why I don’t leave my house Besides, the cost of living is cheap and flights to LA and NYC are very inexpensive. If I had all of the money in the world, I would want a solid gold camper so I could stylishly drive everywhere and soak up all of the different towns in the US. I love to travel too much.

Our analysis: A solid gold camper would probably cost less than the gasoline for the monster truck you’d need to put it on, since it’d weigh a ton… Either that or I picture a chick wearing a gold lame headband and hot pants jiving down to disco in the back of a pickup truck, oops, that would be a Solid Gold dancer not camper. Maybe she just meant metaphorically speaking.

We asked Apnea: You explain on your website that your tattoo is an ancient Egyptian symbol called Nuenyahe found in royal and religious tombs, which explains more what it is than what it means I couldn’t find out anywhere. Do you know what the symbol stood for or did you and Phillip choose it only for its aesthetic appeal?

Apnea answered: Nuenyahe (pronounced “nun-yah”) stands for nothing at all. We just liked the way it looked

Our analysis: Shouldn’t it be pronounced as “na-da” if it means zilch? I agree three blue bars certainly have aesthetic appeal compared to one big zero. What? You think she means the symbol has no specific meaning not that it stands for nothing. My bad.

We asked Apnea: I always find it interesting to find out how couples first met. How did you meet Lithium Picnic?

Apnea answered: We met through friends; I assume the same way most people meet their mate. Funny enough it had nothing to do with photography or modeling! In fact, when we first started dating I would sit in his lap at the computer, we would take funny webcam shots of the two of us, and that was the extent of it. We have progressed so much since then, don’t you agree?

Our analysis: Definitely, you progressed way past wonky webcam shots. As to how you met your hubby, I was hoping that somehow you met him while tied up naked to a bucking mechanical bull drinking tequila in a Southwest Texas bar just north of the Mexican border. Then that he won you hands down in a poker match by bluffing his opponents until they folded while he was merely holding a pair of twos and a one-eyed jack. However, maybe that’s what “we met through friends” means when speaking metaphorically?

We asked Apnea: Although, you think it’s ridiculous for a young person to always be rushing towards being older, do you think you can still be young, living very much in the present but have an old soul?

Apnea answered: ‘Soul’ is a funny word. I think some young people are just more clever than their peers and it’s projected as being emotionally/spiritually older. I suppose anything is possible though.

Our analysis: I somehow feel compelled to say something about Soul Train after already using the earlier Solid Gold TV show reference but I’m worried that Apnea will figure out that some folks seem to think like old souls while others definitely stink like old farts.

We asked Apnea: The photo set by Photographer Steve Diet Goedde entitled “Retro” has a more old school feeling of glamour to it. You said you weren’t sure about pulling it off is that because it felt as if it forced you to expose a different side to yourself than you’re used to showing?

Apnea answered: I was only 18 when those photos were taken and I thought my face looked too young at the time to pull it off. In my opinion, a model going for the retro-glamour look should be more physically mature than me. That’s why I stick to the barely-legal fashiony/fetish/goth niche. But as I explain on my site, Steve worked his magic and made me look legit.

Our analysis: To legit to quit… Oh man, that does sound “retro old school” but although I understand Apnea’s apprehension about those retro spreads, I think Steve proves that the magic of glamour photography is that it makes women of all ages to look “worldly and sophisticated” as if experienced in life, not necessarily in years. It creates a timeless image of beauty.

We asked Apnea: In the gallery entitled Burning Inside by Lithium Picnic, you light an old engine block on fire with a burning cigarette. The results look great but were there any mishaps trying to get it to work?

Apnea answered: I had to lean dangerously close to the fire in order to light up my face. We had no idea I would have to get so close but I think it adds to the intensity of the photos. Other than that, Smokey Bear would have been proud of us that night.

A few weeks ago, a client came to Lithium Picnic requesting some shots of her with a similar storyline as Burning Inside and I hear they had a small debris fire in the warehouse. Crazy kids!

Our analysis: Apnea does mean “transient cessation of respiration” so I’m sure that might include smoke inhalation. All I can say, is you’d definitely cause some kind of fire to start if you had your face that close to my engine block… although, I’d never refer to it as only as “small debris” down in my warehouse, not with you around at least. Again, I’m speaking metaphorically of course.