SonoRussa

Well, this summer, 2006, I've been to Moscow, which is lovelier than ever, and also spent a week in Uzbekistan, visiting ancient cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, as well as Navoi - that small remnant of the soviet era in the middle of a desert that my grandparents live in. So some new, and hopefully interesting, photos yet to come :) If anyone's interested, they can take a look at my sister Julia's (whiteblur) gallery for more photos from these trips. (In fact, since whenever we're together the camera is practically monopolized by her, most of the pics would be on her site.)  

Summer is wonderful. I've spent mine travelling, starting with Philadelphia, then Russia - beautiful Saint Petersburg, Novgorod, Moscow. Later - August in Paris. Great city, except my camera was stolen there, three days before I had to leave to New York. So from now on I'll be posting photos from summer, good that I took so many : ) Hope you like them!

said the following in one interview, i find it very interesting: "Obviously, the artist himself is a creature of passion, but he dilutes that passion in the forms that he creates. In any case, inserting one's own emotions in a work of art is always vulgar. That's why I am so attracted to Oriental art; or else Bach, who is an ideal representative of art, or Leonardo da Vinci. Though each man most be Capable of expressing himself that he must channel his self-expression does not imply having publicly to produce a book or a film. It is this human vanity which is so typical of the West and which is not to be found in the Orient whose philosophy