Clinging to hope, the defiant belief Paradise can be found, the intrepid Finder of Lost Souls treks through the rugged Mexican wilds. Toting her cameras, she skirts a perilous ravine edging the mountainous Cerro de Chipinque. It is late afternoon,…
Dancing with the Lights interview by Kamila K
Piotr Leczkowski – Photography is my love, my passion, my basic form of self-expression. I still can not boast about what others most often boast – it has not been in me ever since, nor did I get the first…
The Doll House by Kamila K
An inspirational “idol,” a fanciful spirit to lift our emotions during these chaotic times?A fashion statement we should check out before heading out to a late-night romantic get-together? Or are the Popovy Sisters, human-like dolls out of Russia swirling through…
A Lightness of Being by Edward Kiersh
Fearlessly and provocatively, they plunge deeper and deeper into a black and white world of juxtaposition, mysterious shadow and seduction. Nothing restrains their visual poetry, their penetrating the soul. No inhibition. No dread-inspiring traditions in male-dominated, ultra-conservative Ukraine. No artificial…
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The Poisonous Apple By Fungai Willard
Flourishing with golden apples, sweet pears, and a variety of other delicious fruits, The Tree of Good Hope ascended high in the African sky. So much promise was attached to this tree, it barely mattered menacing snakes coiled around its…
An Andalusian Dreamer
It’s the bounteous “land of pomegranates.” Nestled amid golden beaches and the Sierra Nevadas, Andalusia spawned a kingdom known for its Moorish architecture and ceramics. There are still revered Golden Age vestiges of Sephardic culture here, and palatial, fairy tale…
Reaching Venus By Edward Kiersh
Losing control excites her. It’s “messy,” this sensual interplay of organic materials, glass, and earthy custom clays. She’s excited by these interactions, waiting to see if shards and rocks can give her fantasies complex textures–how they will react in the kiln’s…
Smoke and Fire By Edward Kiersh
It’s easy to be stunned, rendered speechless. The flash of light is that intense, ablaze with an endless constellation of sexual nuances. Just ask Stevie Wonder. Sensing the power of his Goddess of Love, he was transfixed…”what I see don’t…
Castration
A knife is drawn. Emboldened, voluptuous women lie near their conquered oppressor, and man’s “possessive gaze on the female forms” brings bloody retribution. So begins Wynnie Mynerva’s still unfolding story in New York City, leaving Peru, and picturing sexual liberation,…
Paradise Found
Take a mud bath. Go deep sea fishing for blue marlin, yellowfin tuna, and wahoo. Saunter through verdant, volcanic hillsides teeming with banana, pineapple and hibiscus trees. It will then be time for relaxation and renewal, unparalleled views of the…
A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN: The Truth About Interior Design by Kamila K
More than a fabled book title, these words powerfully resonate, transport us to a new realm, to freedom. They are a blueprint. An architectural drawing of sorts. A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf’s plea for liberation, takes us into interiors…
The Temptress of Lastovo Island By Anita Palada
As the small ferry boat wound its way through the Adriatic Sea, a burst of laughter swept across the deck.“He jumped on her back, and they swam off together…it’s true…it really happened,” cried the burly, bearded man, looking towards the…
A Sicilian Legacy by Edward Kiersh
The “piano music” begins every morning at sunrise. Upholding the precepts of his father– a legacy that binds him to the land–this skilled musician leaves the modest stone house with his daughter Enrica. Followed by “Pippo,” one of five rescue…
Wandering in the Sahara by Beatriz Maximo
Except for the camels sipping water, and the lizards scurrying in the sand, there was absolute silence. Night had fallen, and there was a silence I had never felt before, one that brings a life-changing reckoning. Now Time and Space…