Same content, same photographs, same palette — sampled from your logo. What changes is the structure, the typography and how the photography is handled. Pick the one that feels right and the whole site gets built on it.
Direction A
The organising idea is that you are always near the fire. A warm ember glow is fixed to the bottom of the screen and breathes slowly, so every section floats above the same hearth. Content arrives in wide horizontal bands separated by thin gold rules, and the offerings become a stacked ceremonial calendar rather than a product grid.
All photography is graded toward firelight, which folds the bright daylight photographs into one nocturnal world. This is the closest reading of what you described: sacred fire, nighttime, reverence.
Most reverentHides the resolution gapOnly one photographic mood
The grade is a real decision, not a filter. It commits the community's photographs to one colour world. If Laura wants the greens and blues of the Andes to stay true, B is the honest answer instead.
Easiest of the three to rebuild in Squarespace: standard sections, one background image per band, and the ember glow is a single code-injection block.
Direction B
Built around what the photo library actually is. Every high-resolution photograph KANAHRI sent is a tall portrait, so this direction makes tall the organising principle: an asymmetric weave of vertical columns, photographs mounted on their own dark fields, text living in the negative columns. Faint coloured threads run down the page — scarlet, turquoise, gold, cobalt, lifted straight out of the macaw in the logo.
The photographs are untouched. Nothing is graded, nothing is recoloured. Each one sits on a field of its own so it never floats loose on black.
Best photographic qualityHonest colourNo cropping lossLeast nocturnal
This is the strongest fit for the assets that exist. It is also the least literal answer to “black, sacred fire, nighttime” — the ground is black, but the photographs bring daylight with them.
The four tall event cards are the clearest preview of how Offerings will feel, and they map exactly onto a Squarespace events grid.
Direction C
The most restrained and the most expensive-looking. Near-empty black, very large typography, and photography that is summoned rather than displayed: in the offerings ledger, the gathering nearest the middle of your screen brings its own photograph up behind the type while the other rows fall back. On a phone the photographs change as you scroll; with a mouse, they follow the cursor.
Because it leans on type rather than pictures, the low-resolution files in the library stop being a problem entirely.
Most premiumSidesteps low-res photosNot "photography-heavy"
The brief asked for a photography-heavy design and this one deliberately is not. Show it as the counter-proposal — it demonstrates range, and some clients fall for it precisely because it holds back.
The ledger reveal is the one piece here that needs custom code in Squarespace. Everything else is plain sections.
Two things are still missing from the content, and both were drafted or left open rather than invented. Sending them alongside the directions gets one round of feedback instead of three.
No bio for Jonny, no facilitator names, no roles. The live /team page is Squarespace demo filler and cannot be reused. One of the four paid pages depends on this.
Laura's document contains three prose blocks and no headline, tagline or calls to action. Everything marked by the “Show drafted copy” switch above was arranged from her own words — nothing was invented — but she has to approve it.
kanahri.org/team publishes Larissa O'Connor MD, Emmett Marsh PhD and Lana Vargas ND — Squarespace template people, with medical credentials, on a plant-medicine retreat site. Worth unpublishing today.
Laura said the family does not really check email and would double-check. An unmonitored inbox that swallows enquiries is worse than no inbox.
Not in the copy, not on the live site. Also decides whether event cards need a price line. Booking and payment are not in the current scope.
The site has twelve URLs; the brief has four. /inicio is a Spanish landing page the brief never mentions. Retire, fold in, or keep?
Who We Are, Our Mission and the Invitation are verbatim from KANAHRI_HOMEPAGE_Copy.docx. The four gatherings and their dates are verbatim from KANAHRI_OFFERINGS_COPY.docx. The practices list and the contact details are taken from the live site. Terminology was normalised where the source documents disagreed with themselves:
Temezcal — used 11 times in the copy against Temazcal twiceAyawoka — used 4 times against Awakoya once, for the same San Pedro medicineJonny — as Laura spells it, against Jhonny once in the offerings document