Left Brain Artists
Photo tour of Western Balkans Today is Canada Day. Local fireworks have started. Too soon as expectations are difficult to subdue; you really need to wait until after 10 pm in the evening; here, in the Canadian capital, July 1st is almost a white night. With the sound of celebratory fire-crackers and colorful rockets in the […]
Photography, art history etc. Traveling photos are snapshots of an instant impression, attraction, moment…taken in passing without thinking or an effort to accomplish compositional balance or photographic perfection…they are very personal experience… yet sometimes they ‘transcend’ into an universal memory, a recognition of an archetypal place in our experience… Nothing much more to say…this is […]
Landscape architecture Surroundings shape our mood, our esthetics and feeling of well-being. Sometimes we find beauty and inspiration in an unruly natural garden, other times in designed harmony of minimalist architecture. Spaces that we encounter in our daily lives can be unremarkable or disturbing, a canvas of a social bunt – or tranquil and meditative […]
Photography Trains and train stations – new destinations and adventure, farewells and separations, sometimes ominous signals of tragic fates, like that of Anna Karenina. From glorious Central Stations with imposing gallery halls to ultra modern multi-level concrete mazes dispatching fast trains of Japan and China…Rural Japan train stations, small and old – tired farmers, kids […]
Photography Nature is an endless art inspiration. Some of nature wonders flirt with us, inviting our admiration with overt display of beauty. Some are hidden, blended into an everyday view, modest, requiring a keen and observant eye to discover. Sumac varieties live in both subtropical and harsh northern climates. Northern (Staghorn) sumac is not an […]
Photography When I was a young woman, socially engaged, with a keen interest in philosophy and psychology, I was quite taken by the ‘To Have or to Be?’, a landmark book of the late 20th century by the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, in which he writes about modern world becoming materialistic, obsessed with the unlimited production […]
Fashion photography and jewelry When I was young, I had a personal seamstress. I had a vivid idea of an image I wanted to project – that of an unconventional young woman – Annie Lennox cropped (blond) hair contrasted with dresses and shoes from a Merlin Monroe era…it suited me well and was a hit […]
Our houses have become a center of attention and contemplation – bound to them during pandemic lockdowns, we came to both love and hate them – homes that protect and prisons at the same time. Our inner freedoms and our face to (or against) the outside world. Houses seen from outside often have a face. […]
Photography What we don’t see does not exist? Far from the sight, far from the heart? We need to magnify to see fascinating worlds that do EXIST despite our oblivion. Whether we use telescopes to bring to our sight the most magnificent enormous worlds from the outer space, or microscopes to illuminate tinny organic worlds […]
Drawing and photography What can I say, drawing is challenging…especially as a stand-alone art-form. These days, we avoid it altogether by turning to abstract art. In ‘old days’, however, you had to prep for your oil or acrylic painting with series of drawing studies and sketches… My personal favorites are fast sketches of a moment, […]
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