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Author: ANNAmain • Date: 21 September 2018 at 04:48 PM No comments

Lots of time has passed since I wrote here last time. It was a hard working period with lots of adventures and professional challenges. Now I am happy to claim that I am at the next stage of development starting with Dvorak`s New World Symphony

Tea ceremony:water and fire in harmony to keep the mind fresh
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 24 January 2017 at 12:41 AM No comments

Among many things to become more calm and have some rest, activities with water and movements are one of the more popular. It could be meditations near a lake or seashore, or imagination. I personally like all of them, but for indoor cases prefer to set a tea ceremony.

My collection of tea accessories is around 60 different items which could be combined in different tea sets.

About 20 kinds of tea are always in my store to be used in different cases and different moods, or different seasons. It refreshes me more psychologically then because of the tea`s nutritions. The way how to choose tea pots, tea cups, a tray with carpet, and combine all of them into new composition is meaningful. Also about the details such as a vase, a screen and may be additional carpet for everything. Hot water is heating all of the time of the ceremony. The feeling of fireplace, even so small, sometimes hrlps to keep mind relaxing but focused. Amazing power of water and fire, and natural shapes of clay tableware, in shadows and fire splashes… I love it.

That`s a small thing which could produce a significant effect. Just try it for yourself.

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#teaceremony #newhome #annamain #activebaseart #birmingham

View from the high dark sky
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 22 November 2015 at 02:05 AM No comments

So many things looks different in night time. I am just from airplan, look how Heatrow airport (London) looks from 700 metres above:

It looks like a galaxy with stars among stars in deep blue and violet shadows. So amazing, so poetic.

I am from Geek culture
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 03 May 2015 at 01:41 AM No comments

Obviously! Exectly!

 

I`m just returned from Japanese flute Shakuhachi concert
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 27 April 2015 at 12:18 AM No comments

I`ve just from the club in which my favourite artists performed Shakuhachi music.

 Shakuhachi is the meditative flite designed for Japanese buddhists monks. Not easy to play and much more to feel right the gentle shadows of natural sounds and unusual rhytm of music. It was seria of ancient classical songs composed at the beginning of Japanese branch of Buddhism, also my friend, BambooWay performed his own music.

I love the way how that artists keep their art safe, which is not so easy in modern world. That music, well listened, causes brain processes of refreshment. I would like to say, it could be a good relaxation during business. The performance was accompanied with stories about the history of the Zen art and explanation about the music.

In addition BambooWay is the master who is creating Shakuhachi and other flutes from bamboo, he made me my Bansuri flute. In case you want it, here it is his site zentaku.ru/

Completely Oversnowed
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 03 April 2015 at 12:52 PM No comments

Yesterday we hoped the spring is here, today we are completely oversnowed again!

Winter become warmer but the total result is unpredictable. It melts and snows, melts and snows. If you see just this picture it could represent January or fabruary.

We have zero  Celsius degree, wind, snow, snow,snow.

It reminds me old Japanese prints with people in kimono and snowed landscapes…

If it is snowing till everning we will have something like this:

Signs of climate change:

World Culture Event: Russian Avant-garde Exhibition`s Fresh Report
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 25 March 2015 at 12:29 AM No comments

Hello everybody, today I was so lucky so received the invitation to the opening of new big cultural event. The exhibition will be opened for visitors tomorrow, and today it was the special day for journalists etc, so I attended to it. Here it is my small art-report. The event was organized in so fine way so everything works in unison. At the entrance it was the small orchestra playing music:

The special feature of that exhibition is it is rare collection of peaces of arts from private owners collected in one place. The collection includs art works of the most well known Jewish artists who contributed the Russian avant-garde, so you can see how international that direction of arts was. Aesthetics is one of the most misterious product of collective subconsciousness, so Russia Avant-garde, the well-known world brand, started to mark exceptional changes in the society. Yes, as a manifestation of collective subconsciousness it is significant.

That piece of art is something with features of sculture and painting. It named ‘Torso’ by. V. Yankelevsky

The text on that painting is "I have a crisis in my work so I am confused and don’t know what to do" . It was the part of old exhibition and I bet, it made some waves around. Seems naive, but just imagine, are you able to put something like this into your CV? No? I hope so. So this is the mark of crazy artists to do such things.

(I guess, the artist made that art object at the end of monday.)

That one was awarsome because It was unexpectable. The real camp-cot with painting on the fabrick which was placed right on the wall.
 

That one also marked as painting. The idea of the artist was, he wrote about lost part of one exhibition. Although it seems strange, it made waves in cultural community because of the idea: the painting represented the plan of lost paintings. That idea, I bet, stucked minds into a kind of shok, so the result was good.

This is a piece of metal with the text "Iron Curtain". It represents,,, the Iron Curtain. It means a lot for people who knew it by own Soviet experience. I knew it too as a suffocative athmosphere with zero possibilities to breath. To make a contrast, I stretch my hand with my business cards to stress the fact I overcame the Iron Curtain and now make some new curtain in my art.

It was a lot of people on the exhibition so it was difficult to make shots. That one I did at the free space:

Ilia Kabakov is well known avant-garde brand, that painting is anormously big more then 5 metres length and represents something soviet-brave like "Hello Motherland". He did that painting on the wood billboard which I hope was taken from legal place.

Our aesthetics is our own. We can like or dislike a style of a painting by our own reasons. Russian avant-garde was the movement against old world, partly forbidden, which represented the collective mood of the period. That`s why this collection is the part of human histiory, frozen mood of strange times. This is the main methor to estimate a peace of art, to learn is it reflects a collective subconsciousness of the time represented, or not.

So, the exhibition is a kind of time machine. And, after all, it represents brave efforts of the curators and organizers who put so much attention to bring all of that voluable pieces of art from different private collections to that place. I could imagine how challenging it was!

It made the exhibition a rare cultural event.

And for the end of the story one more selfie. The place is not so good but it was the only I could take the full size piicture. Why I did it, I don`t know, just the background was a good illustration to Avant-garde ideas, especially by Ilya Kabakov, so I did it.

With all of my respect for world culture,


sleepy Anna

One everning for relax after big part of work :)
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 01 March 2015 at 10:36 PM No comments

Today I`ve finished a big part of work. Everything arranged and sent, so I have one everning witn normal relax. Funny how the picture looks like! smile

Seems like a normal #weekend  #simple #relaxation , just it is not bear, it is  #milk #oolong #chinesetea from thermos i bought in my first visit in #shanghai

Watching #savelyevmozg about brainwork, instead of sport . Ah, so lovely!

A Meeting with True Friends
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 25 February 2015 at 07:14 PM No comments

Hello everybody! While I am working on two project simultaneously it is so important to keep some moments of life which is so sweet. This is my meeting with friends.

Today the word "friend" is so frequently used, starting from Facebook and social network, so it is not so clear how to call our true friends. Definitely it needs a new words, close to "soulmates" with less sexy shade.

So, my true friends have visited me resently. At the beginning we all concentrated in one place. Then one moved to China, Shanghai, I am flying  somewhere between UK, China, Greece and Moscow, and one of us is moving between scientific institute and field researchs, in forests. In such a moving life it is so rare moments when we can be together.

We are discussing some practical issues, philosophy things which is important to move the life on, our new experience It was so nice to drink togather Japanese tea calls "matcha", with some cakes and cheese!

We didn`t stop with Japanese tea and made some Chinese tea, everyone with special cup selected by themselves from my tea collection. Milk oolong tea and several others, and we was enjoying the special taste of our meeting here.

Such a nice things is so important. And so rare. It becomes a treasures.

Wish you to taste it in every detail!

Going to projectwork, being refreshed with this memory,

 

Anna

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