July 30th, 2008

He takes just enough
To lean in and stoke the flame
When we're embers afraid of a sharp puff
He rekindles us again

But now I've learned the pattern
Grown familiar with its rhythm
With barely any light in the lantern
I can still see that I'm with him

But he makes the darkness come
And he lets the flame fall cool
And cause of the little bit I see
I follow him like a fool.

-senka kovacevic

Featured on Alice in Wonderland

Hi Everyone,

I am so excited to announce that Where the Sun Reposes was featured on Alice in Wonderland today!

Alice in Wonderland is a style blog by Lindha Portman Sagum. Lindha spent 6 years styling for New York Times Magazine, was the sitting editor for all covers of T Magazine, and styled campaigns for Tiffany's, Cover Girl, and Japanese Vogue.

This is a great honor so please do check it out!

Where the Sun Reposes on Alice in Wonderland

All the best,
Senka

S. Marshak & V. Lebedev

Samuel Marshak was a poet, talented satirist, and an outstanding translator of English literature. As a children's author, he had a special talent for taking the most indigestible ideas of the Soviet social order and writing about them without sounding pompous or didactic. In his early work, Valdimir Lebedev often combined cubist techniques with the elements of folk 'lubok' in a highly original system of representation. Together, Lebedev and Marshak collaborated on close to fifty titles. Lebedev also successfully illustrated Marshak's adult verse and some of his translations.

Ivan Maximov

Sometimes I watch them simultaneously -- but I don't think that's for everyone.

Natalia Vetrova

Natalia hired me to tutor her daughter (who is also extremely talented) about two years ago. Her paintings are all absolutely beautiful fantasies, and almost all of the figures in her work look just like her daughter. Her gallery, Vetrova Studio, is located in Yaletown.

Iconography

I am finishing a novel in which the main character is an iconographer.
My uncle is an Eastern Orthodox priest.

In Baia

Encore

The Boy with Nails in his Eyes
put up his aluminium tree.
It looked pretty strange
because he couldn't really see.

-Tim Burton The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories

Shadows

Isn't it amazing what shadows can do?
I like nothing better.

Ralph Steadman

I saw Gonzo tonight. Though I am a huge fan of his books, my favorite part of the film was seeing Steadman's style change into what it is now after eating mescaline. I've never been a believer in drugs' ability to actaully "expand" the mind -- but it makes me wonder.

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy

Stick Boy and Match Girl in LoveStick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.

But could a flame ever burn
for a match and a stick?
It did quite literally;
he burned up quick.

Voodoo Girl

Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colored pins
sticking out of her heart.

She has many different zombies
who are deeply in her trance.
She even has a zombie
who was originally from France.

But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets too close to her,
the pins stick farther in.

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories, by Tim Burton, is a book of poems that tell the stories of children with various defects. The tales of half-robot hybrids, spontaneous transformers, and women who have babies to win men range in tone from depressing to humorous, and sometimes both at the same time.

The Clayton Brothers

I think the name got me initially... but the colors and the details are really amazing.

Katerina Tumanova (aka Belkina)

Katerina Tumanova (aka Belkina) is a Russian painter, digital artist, and photographer born and schooled in Samara.

Sitting In A Tree...

I wish I could spend all day dreaming and reading in one of these amazing treehouses from baumraum.

That would be the life.

The Whisperer

A high-society love affair, between Lord Montagu and his secretory Elanor Thornton, kept secret to avoid scandal, inspired a public display of adoration that has become one of the motoring world's most famous symbols.

For his part, Montagu was so infatuated with "Thorn" that he asked her to model for an emblem to place on the bonnet of his Rolls.

He turned to, Charles Sykes, an artist, sculptor, and mutual friend, to craft a figure of her in fluttering robes, pressing a finger to her lips to symbolise the secret of their love.

Officially called The Spirit of Ecstasy, but known as The Whisperer by those who were party to the secret affair, the symbol would go on to inspire subsequent designs for Rolls-Royce emblems.

Vitamin V Culture Girl

I've been spotted as one of Vitamin V's Culture Girls.

Some Unholy War

If my man was fighting
Some unholy war
I would be behind him
Straight shook up beside him
With strength he didn't know
It's you I'm fighting for
He can't lose with me in tow
I refuse to let him go
At his side and drunk on pride
We wait for the blow

We put it in writing
But who you writing for
Just us on kitchen floor
Justice done,
Reciting my stomach standing still
Like you're reading my will
He still stands in spite of what his scars say
I'll battle till this bitter finale
Just me, my dignity and this guitar case

Yes my man is fighting some unholy war
And I will stand beside you
Who you fighting for
B - I would have died too
I'd of liked to
If my man was fighting
Some unholy war
If my man was fighting

-Amy Winehouse

In the Year 2000

Aero Mood

A few years back I had a clandestine salsa life. I danced under the art gallery with my bestfriend from highschool's brother. It was an unrequited teenage romance for both of us -- and then, years later, we bumped into each other on the Library steps and he asked me if I would be his new partner. I had never dance salsa before, and his father was the Salsa King of the Americas. I had danced, and trained gymnastics for a decade so according to him I would be the perfect partner. He never taught me the choreography, just tamed me to his lead. There is no better way to dance with a man.

Dorothea Tanning

Dorothea Tanning is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.

Eastern Promises

I'm watching it tonight.

Francesca Tallone

Francesca Tallone is a photographer living in Brooklyn.
To see more of her work visit www.patternclash.com.

July 8th

I thought I had reached heaven
For I saw a beautiful bright light
It was on my left hand side
And there was another on my right

Standing in between them
I had no choice but to choose
With each choice I had the world to gain
And another world to lose.

-senka kovacevic

Pink Panther

July 2nd

Nothing hurts more
Than to intentionally ignore
Particularly if
It’s someone you adore

A love that hurt your heart
And hurts more cause you’re apart
But the distance you impose
Cause you think you’re being smart

And you see him call and call
But the contact stalls and stalls
Because you are afraid
That you’ll forgive it all

-senka kovacevic

Midnight Insight

Laying in my bed, there is a slit of light that comes through the gap between my handmade curtains and it always shines on this book. The cover has a lot of gold to it, so it is particularly reflective and hard to ignore. Tonight I realized I haven't read it enough.

Jan Saudek

These are some of his first photographs -- and the only ones that I really like.
The top one reminds me of a small photo of my dad I had when we first moved to Canada.

Seven Hundred Penguins

I got lost in this book all day yesterday.