The moment a microphone was thrust in front of her, life changed. She suddenly found inspiration, a distinct new passion. “My first thought was to grab that microphone, and to sing as loud as possible,” remembers psychotherapist Alexandra Nowak.…
On the Essence of Creativity
One evening I was walking through the old town of Cologne, it had been raining, a cold wind was pushing through the winding streets coming from the nearby Rhine. There were few people on the street, so close to closing…
COLLAGEN Art of Nature
Alicja Jaworska is a collagen specialist. As the Director of PerfectColl and a Leader in PerfectColl for UK – a Polish company, she helps supervise the international operation of this enterprise–a firm that implements advanced biotechnology and bioelectronics achievements for…
Seeking Wonderland
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,…
Following Marco Polo’s Footsteps By Edward Kiersh
Afflicted with incurable wanderlust, an unquenchable desire to discover unique, thought-provoking art, she became a treasure hunter. At first it was only traveling through the Ukraine to small, remote villages. Delighted by the “purity” of artists who passionately wanted to…
Flying By Juliana Rodrigues
It’s a prelude to exploring the deepest recesses of the soul. To find the fire that lies within, the intensity that allows all of us to fly freely and fully to new realms.One only has to watch the electrifying, high-spirited…
Dancing with the Lights
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…
A Lightness of Being
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…
THE INTREPID TREASURE HUNTER by EDWARD KIERSH
A contemporary incarnation of the courageous traders who plied the Silk Road to bring Persian carpets to the West, this adventurer roams deep into the Atlas Mountains to discover antique Berber rugs. No place is too far, no outpost too…
ESCAPING INTO THE ATLAS by Edward Kiersh
As the Berber men hover clay, conical-shaped tagine pots, the fragrant aromas of lamb, garlic and lemons waft through the sun-drenched air. The smoke from the charcoal fire creates a haze, a hint of mystery accentuated by the shadows cast…