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Contents: Cristiana Alejandro Jared Fumiko Vadim Massimo

Couceiro Clavo Fiorino Toda Gannenko Nota

Selfportraits Elsrgarcia Adam Masha Patric Manuel


Turnbull Rumianceva Sandri Dall'Olio

Peter Sasha Kimm Evan Juliane Dmitry Naomi Irma


Baker Boyarskaya Whiskie Baden Eirich Ledentsov Vona Vecchio

Flying Juan Pablo Lizette


Star Toys Cambariere Greco

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Cristiana
Couceiro
www.setediasete.blogspot.com

Cristiana Couceiro was born in 1977. She lives and


works in Lisbon, Portugal.
«I wanna be like Greta Carbo. Or a Blue Angel, Marlene, Louise Brooks.
Amalia, the Fado singer. A retro look and a digital collage. On Satur-
days I like to go through the flea market collecting memories. Feira da
Ladra as we call it here in Lisbon. That means Thief Fair which is funny.
Collecting other people's memory to build a new one. I like to play with
scissors and glue and paper. A little piece here and there through the
hills of my city. Lisbon is old and new, vintage and modern, decadent
somehow but with a white and clean sunlight. Lisbon is bright decadent.
It's filled with past and dreams. And there lays the inspiration for my
work.»

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Alejandro
Clavo
www.alejandroclavo.com

“I work as art director in advertising since more


twenty years ago in Spain, principally in Madrid
and Palma de Mallorca, city where I actually
reside.
With my father as painter and my mother as
sculptress... my future was marked! As a result
of this, my training basically is self-educated.
I have begun my web-site of conceptual art. On
this web-site, I’m exhibiting a sample of my art-
works with the proposal of to express an ironi-
cal point of view about events of everyday life.”

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From where do you usually get your inspiration?
I don’t believe in the inspiration. I only believe in the work. Without
a shadow of a doubt. I think more in the perspiration than in the
inspiration. In spite of this, I can say that my artworks are a reflec-
tion of the daily observation of all the surround us. It is always with
an ironical view.

Can you name the artists who had the most profound influence
on you?
I have been under the influence of all artists between Piero Della
Francesca and Marcel Duchamp. However, internet has helped to
know hundreds, thousands of artists. The techniques, disciplines,
tendencies… have been fusing. As a result of this, there are new
artists, new tendencies.
I think… we are living a special moment. But, look out! A high per-
centage is too ephemeral.

Where did you study and do you believe in the importance of


formal education in design?
Formal education or conventional education about design or art is
very important. In other words, this education must not be ignored,
but the artist must not remain there... remain behind! It’s necessary
to know the rules, for break them.

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When are you the most productive? Day
or night?
I sometimes work in the day, and I some-
times work at night. Although I have a
predilection for to work at night, when there
is silence, and at the same time I can listen
to music in front of my computer.

Does music help you in your art work?


What are your favorite groups?
Ufff… How explain it! My father played
Spanish guitar, my sister plays cello; and
I studied clarinet … my training is classic:
Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Bach …
but I have evolved and enlarged my musi-
cal spectrum: Bjork, Kruder Dorfmeister,
Smashing Pumkins, Massive Attack…
no-thing is possible if there isn’t music.
But paradoxically, my favorite sound is the
silence.

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Tell us more about your artworks “Capuc-
cino” or “Flies”.
My view of the things has an acid point. In the
case of “Capuccino”, the look of the coffee
attracted me. If for first time and quickly, you
see the photo, you would think it’s perfectly
normal… a cup of cappuccino. Only when you
carefully look, the difference can be appreci-
ated: any disagreeable for a lot of people.

Have you got another passion besides art?


Yes. All the activities related with the nature.

What way do you like to relax in?


I like to walk on the beach and to drink tea while
I read newspapers. However, in those relax
moments, my body rests but my mind continues
working. I would like to disconnect me com-
pletely, but it isn’t sometimes easy for me.

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Jared
Fiorino
www.jaredfiorino.blogspot.com

Jared Fiorino is an ambitious freelance illus-


trator whom recently graduated from Ringling
College of Art and Design and attended The
Illustration Academy for one summer. His work
has appeared in editorial publications, company
logos, and several gallery shows. Interesting
concepts and good music are some of the many
inspirations that fuel Jared’s hunger for innova-
tion.
“Since I was a child I’ve always been passionate about drawing and
it wasn’t until my higher education that I truly had an understanding
and appreciation for professional illustration. Be”
«I’m inspired by many things; music, video games, graffiti, skate-
boards, urban street life, machines, nature. Above all, I’m inspired
by my friends and all the people I’ve gone to school with, not to
mention the fellow bloggers I admire through this site.»

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Fumiko
Toda
www.fumikotoda.com

Fumiko Toda is an artist who currently lives and


works in Brooklyn, NY.
She was born and raised in rural Japan. She
finds her inspiration by her childhood memory
with nature. Her works have been exhibited both
nationally and internationally.
“I am obsessively fascinated with color, texture, textile design, and
form, although most of the images and inspiration I find for art, are
drawn from my childhood background.
I grew up in the Japanese countryside, near the edge of a pond
thriving in bio-diversity. I would spend long summer days collecting
all manner of insects, leaves and stones to escape my isolation.
After attending art University in Kyoto, I moved to New York City,
in 2001, and was strongly influenced by the urban experience; how
metropolitan living tends toward disconnection and results in an
existence bereft of intimacy.
Through the making of art, I engage this disconnection: from the
community of humankind, and from the natural world.
Working on paper allows me to create different layers of acrylic
paint, ink, graphite and oil-pastel; in the overlay of various surfaces
and visual effects resulting from this process, I can suggest the pas-
sage of time and recollection of memory.”

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Vadim
Gannenko
www.flickr.com/photos/gannenko

Vadim Gannenko is a 29 years old Russian design-


er and illustrator. He graduated from The Academy
of Design and Art in Kharkov with honors. He is
the author of cover and centerfold of the “NASH”
magazine. Now he lives in Kiev and Dneprpetrovsk.
With his wife Vadim created the design studio “Art
Monolit”. He likes to draw funny pictures and also
his labrador Kenny.

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Massimo
Nota
www.notamax.it

Graduated as illustrator at the “Istituto Europeo


di Design”, in Rome, collaborates with many Ital-
ian newspapers, as “La Repubblica”, “Smemo-
randa” “Nessuno Tocchi Caino” “Avvenimenti”...
He has been awarded many prizes in national
and European graphic and satiric competitions.
His production is exposed in Italy, Spain and for-
mer Yugoslavia.

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Manuel
Dall’Olio
www.manueldallolio.it

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Patric
Sandri
www.patricsandri.ch.vu

Patric Sandri is a freelance illustrator from Zu-


rich, Switzerland. He is doing lots of own proj-
ects. He worked for different companies, music
artists, newspapers and magazines in Switzer-
land. He is also available for freelance works and
projects.

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Masha
Rumyantseva
www.revision.ru/authors/1100/

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Adam
Turnbull
www.adamjamesturnbull.com

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Elsrgarcia
www.elsrgarcia.com

«... I am just another Garcia. It seems more than


five million people named like me, and that I like
because I am shy sickly and other scares me to
have a more noble or different surname. I speak
little, and write less. I read books Ramon Gomez
de la Serna, and I have fallen in love with the
work of Brossa, Diego Lara and the sad story of
Maria Sarmiento. I’m double, triple personality.
This schizophrenia makes the collage is my only
escape. A personality full of clippings from other
personalities»

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Selfportraits
www.selfportraits.ru

Ilya Kazakov invents new projects absolutely by chance, but with


some definite consistency. He has been doing this since 2005. The
first one was the project called “Creatizm”- illustrations to some
abstract words. In Ilya’s new project any illustrator or designer can
come out in his true colours by sending his or her self-portrait,
which will be put in the gallery. Ilya is going to stop accepting the
new images in the end of July. So hurry up!

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Baker
www.peterbaker.net

Born and raised in a small farm town before


moving to Chicago and San Francisco, Peter
works across multiple disciplines, running his
own web and graphic design studio, Elevated
Works (elevatedworks.com), while shooting
commercially for a number of publications and
exhibits photos in numerous capacities.
“This series of night photography is a result of the slow, methodi-
cal, almost meditative methodology of long exposure photography.
Through lurking around in the middle of the night, you begin to find
an interesting new landscape, generated by the artificiality of man-
made light. Through our own desire for the illumination of the night,
a new world is created, one almost sinister but beautiful at the same
time.”

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Sasha
Boyarskaya
www.flickr.com/photos/sasha_afisha

“I’ve never wanted to take photographs. rooms of bedrooms. Everybody does that:
Because it’s difficult to begin doing some- think out some projects and then implement
thing where you think you’re not the best. them. But I can’t call this such a pompous
I’ve been photo editor for three years, so word as “projects”. It’s just foofaraw. There
I’ve seen many photos of different pho- are thousands people like me and it would
tographers and learned that there may be be too self-conceited of me to take it seri-
pictures of wonderful harmony or something ously. It’s very pleasant when people like
done by amazing eyeless creatures with my photos. But if I ever start taking photos
cameras. Sometimes I would find a camera with a serious look on my face I’m sure that
in my hands, but I was always trying to get I won’t like them. I didn’t like to take photo-
rid of it. And my shots were really shitty. graphs of people until I began to treat them
One day our art director bought two identi- as objects. It means that I don’t change
cal cameras and I got one of them. The first something, but I just shoot a person where I
four photos I’ve made were the photos of see him or just round the corner. Also I don’t
my flat. I was in the hall and thought that like to dress them up. I either want to take a
there was such a beautiful light and it was picture of the person or I feel aversion right
just a typical Soviet kind of flat but some- away and there’s nothing I can do. I don’t
how very nice despite all those floor lamps spend more then 10 seconds on taking a
and polished furniture. And so it began like picture. If I see a person in front of me it
that.I don’t think that I shoot something seems to me that I am doing something
special. I just like the tangible things and very stupid if I take a picture. And at once
nice horizontal and empty pictures. I take I feel like walking away so I just press the
out my camera when I see the flowers, button and blush.
green lawns, paper cups with coffee, empty

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The most important thing that happened to me due to photography was to meet my boy-
friend Chris in London. He was shooting a movie about his own life and girls. We got ac-
quainted accidentally in the street. He was being late for something; I came to a shop, and
bought two apples for want of anything better to do and invented a story about a loving
couple of apples walking around London. This story got to Chris’ movie that is coming out
worldwide soon. Chris made me believe that my photos are worth something. This is the
most important thing someone has ever done for me.”

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Kimm
Whiskie
www.applebed.net

“I live in Vilnius, Lithuania. I like the tendencies to-


wards gentle femininity, positivism and simplicity,
among others. I also like xylophone music, owls and
winters and the implicit things in people’s words.”

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Evan
Baden
www.evanbaden.com

Evan Baden is a photographer based in St. Paul,


Minnesota. He graduated from the College of Vi-
sual Arts in St. Paul in 2007 with his B.F.A. He is
currently showing his thesis work, “The Illuminati”,
and working on numerous other projects.

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How did it all begin — meaning the pho- How do you concern to criticism?
tography? I love hearing others opinions about my
I began with photography back when I was work, both good and bad, as long as it is
in high school. I was really interested in the constructive. I like to hear why someone
whole process. After high school I began likes it or dislikes it. I think the criticism that
college with the intention of becoming a is received is just as important as the art
chemical engineer. After about 6 months I itself because it helps the artist to push the
decided that photography, and making art boundaries of what they are doing and to
interested me much more than what I was make their work better.
going to school for. So I left that college and
enrolled in a small art college in St. Paul, Evan, what cameras do you use?
Minnesota. I graduated about a year ago I have several different cameras that I use.
and have been making work ever since. I have a Mamiya RZ67 Pro II and a Canon
5D. But my favorite camera is my Canham
Tell us some words about your series 4x5. There is something about a 4x5 image
“Illuminati”. How did the idea of such that is unique. Nothing else can match it.
series take place?
The idea of the Illuminati came about after
I had been working on some other night
projects. I had been shooting farms and
cities at night. I was shooting them because
I loved the way that the light changed the
face of the landscape. After a while I began
to notice the same effect with people and
their electronic devices. As I explored this
phenomenon I began to notice who was
using the devices. I began to notice the
isolation that occurred when young people
were using these devices and at the same
time thought about the connection that was
being made by the user to another user who
could be anywhere in the world. The para-
dox was really interesting and the imagery
was really beautiful at the same time.

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How do you prefer to spend your free
time?
I usually spend most of my time working
on projects, but when I’m not working I like
to just relax. It might be doing something
active like taking a walk or going to the
park, or it might be simply sitting in my living
room and watching some TV.

Tell us about your proximate plans for


the future. Are you going to make some
new series?
I am making some new work. I have been
working on a couple different projects, but
the one that I am most excited about is a
continuation of the Illuminati series. I want
to expand the imagery and show more of
what I see in everyday life. I want to focus
on the isolation that occurs with technology
in social situations.

Is there anything you would like to say to


our readers? Any pieces of advice you
would like to add?
As far as advice goes to those who want to
make art, I would simply say make a lot of
work. You have to go through a lot of stuff
that you know is really bad before you can
identify what interests you and begin mak-
ing impactful work.

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Juliane
Eirich
www.julianeeirich.com

“Being a photographer you become curious Since you asked all the artists if they have
Juliane Eirich was born and raised in Munich, Germany. She
by profession. This curiosity is what inspires been to Russia: I have been to Russia two
studied photography at the “Academy for Photodesign Munich” me and makes me enthusiastic about pho- times. It was on a pupils exchange because
(Fachakademie für Fotodesign, München) from 2000 to 2003. tography. I decided to learn Russian voluntarily in high
The main subject of my work is physical school. I went there two times, once with 14
After graduating she went to New York City and Honolulu to work places. I am showing the peculiarity and and once with 16. I really liked it so I would
and pursue her own projects. Due to a scholarship she spent one beauty of places that usually would not get love to go back now, since I did not take
much attention. My work deals with the photos at that time.”
year in Seoul, South Korea in 2007.
relationships between people and places,
and the rendering of real and artificial-like
environments in everyday life. I want the
viewers to sometimes rethink their way of
perception. My goal is to take pictures that
are story telling to pass on my curiosity to
the viewers.

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“Me-Il Sajin”

“The other Series is new work that I was working on here in Korea. It is called “Me-Il Sajin”
which is Korean for “Everyday Photo”. Every day, since I arrived in Korea I was shooting one
photo for this picture diary. I am sending you six out of these 365 shots.”

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“Snownight”

“I shot this series in Bavaria, the state in Ger-


many where I was born and raised. The series
“Snownight” emerged from the half happy, half
sentimental feeling of being home after a long
stay abroad. I was longing for silence and peace
and tried to find both with my camera.”

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Dmitry
Ledentsov
www.ledentsov.de/pictures/viareversionkit/

Dmitry Ledentsov lives intensively between art and science since


his birth in 1981 in Leningrad. He has interrupted his academic
education in music and art as a reaction to conservatism and
pursued his own development track. His first personal exhibition
“I am Absent Here” in the gallery Belka&Strelka in St.-Peters-
burg, Russia showed photographs in diptych format, focusing on
the topic of absence. The atmosphere of the exhibition was en-
hanced with his own music, he himself was, however, absent.

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The photographic series „Via Reversion Kit” deals with warped
spaces and relative views. Each photographic image has two
interpretations – as negative and as a positive picture. Tradition-
ally, the positive is preferred, since it is closer to our perception
of the world. The photographs in this exhibition allow both inter-
pretations. However, only the purposefully chosen interpretation
is shown.

“Black or white? Positive or negative? Can wave of reactions that can be extremely po-
we answer these questions unambiguously lar due to the fact, that everything is judged
at the spot? In our daily lives we are often relative to the individual, space and time.
forced to take sides. An example of a paradoxical system men-
This inevitably creates tensions that ac- tioned above is the personal Weltanschau-
cumulate with time. However, an analysis ung. Each Weltanschauung is unique not
one’s own thoughts results in a conclusion, only among individuals, but also between
that completely opposite concepts or at- seconds. By learning something new about
titudes can coexist in the very same brain, the world, the inner world or the attitude
hence be a part of the same personality. towards a certain concept can reverse in
Does this fact pose a paradox? The ques- an instant, either resolving smaller contra-
tion itself is again a demand to take sides. dictions, or adding new ones. Hence, The
Such nested paradoxes have fascinated Good can become The Evil in a jiffy and,
humankind since a long time. People that perhaps, transform into Good the next sec-
could afford taking the time have document- ond.
ed those (i.e. Zen Kōans). The mathemati- The photographs from the series “Via Re-
cian Kurt Gödel has freed us from the tor- version Kit” crystallize my personal relative
ture of the infinite – as a consequence of his Weltanschauung through photographic
Incompleteness Theorem one can always inversions into a form and are dedicated to
find a higher system in which the contra- The Good here and now and with grateful
dictions of the original system wouldn’t be thanks to the model and to my friends.”
contradictory.
The path of hedonism is a dream among
modern people. The maximization of de-
light and enjoyment is however an utopistic
maxim that cannot work in a dynamic soci-
ety. Each step towards hedonism causes a

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Naomi
Vona
www.iamnotaphotographer.it

Naomi Vona is an Italian photographer borned in


1982. She graduated in design in 2005 in Brera
Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where she’s still
studying the second of a two-years specialization
in photography.

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Irma
Vecchio
www.flickr.com/photos/ir_u

Irma Vecchio was born in Sicily in 1981. She


moved after the school to Rome and then, in
2000 to Berlin, where she started the Filmschool
as cinematographer. In all these years Irma pho-
tographed many short-movies, but also docu-
mentaries and long-movies. Her career as pho-
tographer is not that much big, but she could
exhibit her work in many online Magazines and
in the Exhibition „Sensorama“ in Germany. Since
5 months she came back to Italy, in Rome, but
she move often to Berlin. Anyway, Irma still has
many projects…

“The work I’m sending you, it has something to do with my “come


back” to Italy. Rome is full Hotels because of the big touristic afflu-
ence and after almost 7 Years away, it was for me like staying no-
where, in a space without memories or private sphere. So I started
to photograph the Hotel’s receptions around the city…”

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Lizette
Greco
www.lizettegreco.com

The works of Lizette Greco are the product of a full


family collaboration, a couple creating with their
young daughter and son. Their plush art is based
on the children’s drawings and made using only
thrifted and recycled materials. They also accept
commissions for pieces using drawings from other
children. Their aim is to create artwork that cel-
ebrates a child’s perspective of the world and will
hopefully be passed from generation to generation.

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Can you write briefly about your toys? What materials do you use?
As a family, we make three dimensional At this point all of our sculptures are made
representations of our children’s drawings. using recycled and thrifted materials. We are
Because they are made with fabric, they constantly collecting fabrics (often vintage)
are often referred to as soft sculptures, soft and stuffing from thrift stores and salvaging
toys, softies, plush toys or plushies. The cardboard, wire and foam from wherever we
photographs and occasional videos we take can find it.
of our work help tell a story that explains
more about the original drawing. Children are
always happy to see their drawings trans-
formed into toys and we enjoy the challenge
that each new drawing represents – the
search for materials, developing a pattern,
constructing the object, and finding the
proper scene to photograph it. Our work is
shared online, in shows, exhibits, and fairs,
and has also been published in three books
along with creations from other plush artists.

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Do you name your toys?
Yes. Many of our soft toys are named by
our children when they draw them. For the
others, we work as a family to find a proper
name.

Where do such ideas of your characters


come from?
Our characters come directly from our
children’s (and other people’s children’s)
drawings which are products of their imagi-
nation, what they are reading, the stories
we tell, the subjects they are studying, the
topics we have seeded, the adventures we
take, the people they meet, etc. They find a
lot of inspiration in their daily lives. In some
instances we combine several drawings to
create more detailed pieces such as Bear
Totem, See-through Predator and the Árbol
installation we recently left in Buenos Aires,
Argentina.

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Juan Pablo
Cambariere
www.rarosobjetos.com.ar

Juan Pablo Cambariere is a 35 years old. He


lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied two
academic degrees, Fine Arts (sculpture) and
Graphic Design.

“I did two different approachs to sculture. In my studio I made al-


moust 100 antropomorphic scultures with junk, under an essay call
“Junk Project”. At the same time, in my masters studio I did a lot of
abstract iron sculptures combined with electric motors (in order to
give them movement). After 6 years of this, the combination of this
two lines of work carry me to the puppets you are watching here, as
a part of a project named “Essay on power”.
This project is form by a (always growing) number of minimalistic
wooden puppets, all of them incomplete, all of them with something
missed.”

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Flying
Star
Toys
www.flyingstartoys.com

“With each toy that comes to light under my fingertips


I have found that underneath the cloth, deep within its
soul, there should be a peacefulness, a quietude that
radiates its fine and soothing light. This is the hallmark of
Flying Star Toys which I still believe is sounded out in the
Flying Star Toys manifesto which I penned a few years
ago.
The Flying Star Toys Manifesto: To bring joy to the weary
heart, to be a light in the darkness, and to be a vision of
compassion is what it means to be a Flying Star.
Over time this spirit has become more and more important to me. My toys have
a simple, classic look with a focus on unique silhouettes. I choose every fab-
ric and fibre carefully in such a way that each element brings together a whole
that resonates with the poetic character of the toy. My inspiration ranges widely
from literature, mythology, folk tales and art to name a few, but mostly I wait for
shapes to catch the corner of my eye and I gather the small threads of its story
into my needle.

I’ve been designing toys for about 4 years and I still have a lot to learn, this
means that there are more toy designs to come. I enjoy making each toy, prepar-
ing that toy for someone who has found Flying Star Toys and feels in tune with
the spirit and soul of the little one that has captured their heart. Each toy requires
precision and mindfulness to achieve their sculpted shape and tailored finish. A
toy being made simply for money doesn’t garner such devotedness I have dis-
covered, so at present I have a notion, perhaps old fashioned, that I’m making a
little treasure for someone’s soul.

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I love story telling, one of my favourite past
times is reading the folk tales of the world.
I have a favourite book of Russian folk
tales that I love reading for their fascinat-
ing characters and creatures - the chicken
footed house of Baba-Yaga and the folklore
concerning the Domovoi come to mind this
instant. All of my toys have a little story too.
I hope my toys carry story telling with them
and I hope to grow this part of my work
more and more.

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I know that many of my patrons have requested a printed story card for Rain Berries. The
Rain Berry story:

Falling from the clouds or rolling down a cheek, running down your window pane or glisten-
ing on a leaf is where to look for Rain Berries. Rain Berries is a name coined to contain all
forms of water drops. Dew drops are Rain Berries. Tears are Rain Berries. Rain drops are
Rain Berries. Have you ever traced the path of a rain drop on a window glass? Have you
marvelled at the tiny dew drops covering the grass in the early morning? Perhaps you’ve
collected the tears that have run down the cheek of someone you love. You might not have
known it, but you were in the presence of Rain Berries.”

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The End.
Thanks to everybody for the participation.

Cover by: Jared Fiorino


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