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I'm doing a sort-of series... partly based on a theme for an exhibition later this year, and partly due to my ongoing fixation with multiple exposures.The title of the exhibition is 'Elements', and because I'm not really much for doing deeply conceptual photography, I decided to do double exposures on film with fire, water, air (sky) and earth.
This is from the 2nd roll - double exposures with cloudy skies. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get the textures to line up exactly with the portrait shots.
The model is the lovely ~lanaBAKA
Nikon FM2 + Kodak Portra 160 VC = scan from print.
Earth element is next (textures of plants).
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Your beautiful picture was featured here : [link]
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what an amazing compliment - thank you!
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She goes to the College of the Arts like you, so you've prolly seen her around
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ha! so that explains it then!
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wow, thank you!
i'm so flattered 
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girl you are amazing x
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absolutely wonderful!
when i saw your picture to my mind came the scene from one book- when Remedios The Beauty ascends into the sky in "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
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Wow, that's a real compliment to me!
It's so strange that you mention that book, because right now I am writing a 3000 word essay about it for my Spanish class!
Thank you so much, I'm glad you like my photo and that you associate it with that amazing novel
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My pleasure, The picture is beautiful!
You know, that's a real coincidence! In the same period of time I'm seeing your photograph and you're working on the essay which are going around the same subject, the same concrete novel, wow, the world will never stop suprising me
And the scene of ascending is so much engraved in my memory, like any other.. (even if after getting know more and more about latinamerican literature I've chosen not Marquez but Julio Cortazar as my literary guru
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The scene of ascension with Remedios the Beauty is my mother's favourite scene also - she has painted it a lot of times, if you're interested you can see her versions of the scene here: [link] [link]
In my Latin American Literature class we also read one book by Julio Cortazar & Carol Dunlop, it's called 'Los Autonautas de la Cosmopista', and now I definitely want to read more from him. What books of his would you recommend to me?
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The works of your mum are amazing! And the scene of ascension was truely "marquezian". I would like to see it as a picture in my book. It was a little like murals of Diego Rivera but with a difrent aura, with magic, so delicate (as Chagall?)
I also liked so much the one called "Emigrant Madonna" and portraits. Your mother is a great artist!
"Los autonautas" was the last book by Cortazar. It was like a diary, so it's good to read it to know the great writer as he was in private, afeter reading some more of him before.
There's just one book, from all i ever read, which i take everywhere with me, i know it almost as good as it's to know one's friend- "Rayuela". From what i know about you, after seeing your pictures, i'm almost sure you'll love it too!
It's nice to know also stories called "Historias de cronopios y de famas" and be introduced to these nice greeny creatures which are cronopios
And there's one more I'd recomended to you- "El examen", it was his early work, but it was published after Cortazar's death.
Do you really have classes of Latin American Literature? It must be awesome! I study spanish philology, but we don't really concenrate on Latin America. I read and study its literature on my own, and I love it
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Thank you so much! My mother has been painting for a long time but she does not get enough exposure. I'm really happy that you like her work
I will definitely make sure to read the Cortazar books you mentioned, hopefully I can find them in some of the bookstores in my city.
I have just finished my Diploma in Languages in Spanish, and part of this Diploma is that you have to take Culture classes (at least 2 in the 3 years of the program).
This year was the first year they offered this literature course, and I loved it. It's called Latin American Literature and Society - we read 7 different works of literature (all in Spanish) in 1 semester - a short story by Maria Luisa Bombal called 'La ultima niebla', 'El Reino de este Mundo' by Alejo Carpentier, some poetry by Pablo Neruda from his collection 'Canto General', 'Cien aΓ±os de soledad' by Garcia Marquez, 'Los autonautas de la cosmopista' by Cortazar & Dunlop, 'Waslala' by Gioconda Belli, and finally 'La Resistencia' by Ernesto Sabato. I admit that it was difficult to read all of this in Spanish, and I didn't finish everything, but it was still very fascinating! My lecturer was really amazing, he is such an interesting person. The best part is that the whole course was in Spanish, so this essay I'm writing about 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is also in Spanish (3000 words! It's scary!)
Do you speak Spanish?
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I speak Spanish quite well, and I've just started my studies en las letras hispanicas, what was always my great dream to do
i'm so jealuse about your Latin American Literature and Society! it must be fascinating as you said! from what you've mentioned I've never read any of women works- Bombal and Belli, I need to look for them. thank you for introducing them to me
have you hear about Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes or Juan Rulfo? i really appreciate works of those mexican writers.
not all of my classes at University are in spanish, unfortunatelly. but this is just the first year, and that's the reason, later we except to have it all in castellano. but i imagine what a hard work they put on you! 3000 words is really a lot.
have you been travelling across Latin America already?
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Oh cool! Do you speak any other languages? I know you speak Polish, English and Spanish.
I really want to study Czech, but they don't offer it in my city 
Apparently next year they are going to introduce more interesting culture course to the Spanish discipline in my University, including maybe a cinema course!!! Which would be so amazing!!! Unfortunately I've already finished my studies so I won't get to do that course
Bombal was a bit depressing for me, very realist and she wrote mostly about women. It's interesting but it was a little bit heavy for me (but then again I only read 1 story). Belli was very interesting! She's also a poet. The book of hers we read is called 'Waslala' and I really enjoyed it - very easy to read and very interesting, about searching for a hidden Utopia in the jungles of Nicaragua (Belli's home country).
I do know about Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes, but not about Juan Rulfo. I haven't read any of their books though, so thanks for telling me, I will put them on my 'to read' list!
Sadly I haven't travelled to any Spanish speaking countries yet
I first need to save money and go to Italy! I am planning on being an Italian interpreter, so I need to really get fluent (I have a degree in Italian but I'm not fluent enough to do an Interpreting Diploma).
Have you travelled to Latin America/Spain?
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I also speak French, and I am still studying it
To be honest, I've also dreamt about Czech! It's so similar and at the same time so diffrent than Polish (we can easily communicate, but there are many "false friends" what make laugh to both sides). It's a little more hard to understand Russian, but we could do that too (all big Slavic family
I also haven't travelled to any Spanish speaking countries yet. But this sommer holiday we're going to Madrid for whole month as voulonteers, and I can't wait! Of course my biggest dream is Latin America
I was looking for a book of Balli, but there are none at the moment. But I put it down to my reading-list (yeah, I've got it too! to the movies there's another one
Tell me, have you been to Europe before?
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Oh cool! I also used to study French but I didn't really like it... my teacher wasn't very good so it really affected my whole outlook on the language. I do love listening to French though, and I like French cinema and music too. I can understand a very little bit of it when I see it written.
Yeah it's weird seeing Czech written down, because I can read & understand a good percentage of it, but it feels like it's... incorrect Russian! Even though I know Czech is older than Russian. Swedish is a very interesting language - I like most Scandinavian languages, but if I was to choose which one to learn then I think I would choose Norwegian - apparently Norwegians can understand quite well both Danish and Swedish, but Swedish speakers can only really understand Danish, and vice versa. So it seems like if I learned Norwegian... I would end up being able to understand 2 more languages! But more than anything I want to learn Icelandic. I have an obsession with Iceland (I *really* want to travel there). Also, Farsi is such a beautiful language, I would love to learn it too. And also Hungarian is very interesting, it would be great to learn that as well. So many languages! So little time! 
That's great about your trip to Madrid! I'm jealous! You will probably really improve your Spanish and come back completely fluent
Haha, yes I also have a movies list, and a music list! They're all very long. Hopefully I can get through some of them in my holidays.
I have been to Europe before - I was born in Belarus (which is why I speak Russian)
When I was 2 my family and I moved to Israel (I also speak Hebrew). We moved to Australia when I was 10.
Unfortunately I haven't been back to Europe since we came here
I really want to visit Israel again, so hopefully I can do that after I travel to Italy!
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I hope you could visit Europe again as soon as it's possible! It must be kind of time travel to get back here again; to all this child's memories world, when everything what you saw was so huge and so inpossible in your eyes... and compare it what you see and fell now as mature person.
If it's about movies' lists and Island, yesterday i saw a great great one- "NΓ³i AlbinΓ³i" a definately must-see!
(It's about a genious boy who was expiled from school, he was hanging around the misteruis islandic land when he was foretold death, but in the end it wasn't him who was supposed to die...)
You really thought up the whole idea of Scandinavic languages with that Norwegian! hihi, cool idea. but I still stand for my Swedish of dreams
You know what? My French teacher is from Australia! His got this strange accent when he speaks English, but when you hear him using French you would never guess where he comes from. I remember also my collage English proffesor was living long years in Australia and she's also speaking that way.
I've never heard Farsi before, but i did hear Hungarian, and it's complitely out of this planet!!
Any informations about Polish language? I'm curious to know, if you can understand it as like with Czech
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Yeah, I really look forward to travelling, and especially to returning to places I used to live. I often think about what it would be like to visit my old school, and the old apartment building where I used to live in Tel-Aviv.
I have been meaning to watch 'NΓ³i AlbinΓ³i' for a while! But it's hard to find it for some reason
I'll look for it again, it sounds really interesting.
Hahaha, yes the Australian accent is... weird! I don't like it, and now I obviously have it after living here for almost 11 years. But the New Zealand accent is even weirder. It's kind of ugly, I think.
That's strange how your French teacher doesn't have an accent when he speaks French... normally the Australian accent is very difficult to hide! He must be really fluent with his french.
Farsi is the language they speak in Iran. It's also called Persian. There's this band I really love called Niyaz, and their music is all in Farsi - it sounds amazing!
I have a friend who speaks Hungarian, I want her to teach me some of her language. We have a deal that I'll teach her some Russian and she will teach me some Hungarian
As for Polish, I don't really understand it. Definitely not spoken Polish! But I do understand some words when I see it in writing. I don't recognise enough to understand an entire sentence (unless it is really short maybe), but I am able to understand some words definitely
But it is easier with Czech than with Polish. I think Czech is probably more similar to Russian than Polish is (or actually, it's probably Russian that's more similar to Czech... apparently Russian is one of the youngest Slavic languages).
By the way, I got your postcard today! I was so excited when my mother brought the mail and said there's a card for me.
I love it!
I will send you one as soon as I can, but it's the weekend now so I have to wait until Monday.
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I'm so happy you received it that soon!
And that you enjoy it
That's all for now, I'll write soon more
(thanks for your last message!
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In the postcard you can see Zwierzyniecki Bridge [link] and in the background The Centennial Hall [link] which was listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2006
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It's a really beautiful postcard, mine won't be as pretty! But hopefully you'll like it anyway
Sorry I didn't reply for so long! I haven't been home in about a week, so I'm sending your postcard off only today... sorry I took so long! I hope you're not angry
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Don't worry, how could i be angry!
You were on some kind of holidays or just having a break and went out of the city?
Here the autumn losts its colors and becomes grey and cold, so I'd rather stay at home with good book and cup of honey&lemon tea, if I could...
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Well, I've been on holidays since the start of November because I didn't have any exams - but the reason I was away is because my boyfriend had 4 exams and he finally finished them all, so I was living at his house for a week
Staying home with a book & a cup of tea sounds like the best thing ever.
Over here it's starting to heat up... 35 degrees
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At last a little of holidays. I can just guess how happy you are about spending it with your boyfriend!
Hey, today's first snow! So warm cups full of aromatic tea become an unseparated part of everyday.
(sending you a cooling wind with snowy cristals!)
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Oh wow, first snow - sounds exciting
I hope you'll receive my postcard soon!
And I apologise right now for my handwriting - I'm sorry if it's difficult to understand. My handwriting is very scribbly...
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Don't worry I'll make out with it for sure. I can't wait to receive it
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I've been looking for more & more postcards to send you.
every time i find one with a nice photo of South Australia, I buy it
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Och I see you become addicted to postcards almost as I am
But isn't it nice?
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Oh yes, I've always loved postcards - over here there's a thing called Avant Card ([link] ), they distribute postcards all over the country, and they're all free! The images on the postcards are often made by local artists. You have to pay to get your work on there, but it's worth it - the postcards are in many stores, cinemas, malls etc. I collect them! Whenever I find some that I like I always take a big stack home, always several of the same card too. So now I finally have the perfect use for them! I can send them to you
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Wow, the idea of Avant Card is great! I was going through their website and I'm so impressed. The poscards are beautiful and unique, they can be send for free, want to want more? I've also seen their fans pictures on fb, some crazy people who have their rooms all covered with ACs. But's it's amazing. After seeing that I'm not that suprised it make people addicted to postcards
Oh, I can't wait to see my first AC in my hands
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Well, the postcard I sent you this time isn't an Avant Card one (I wanted to send you a photo from South Australia so I bought some from a newsagent), but the next one definitely will be
Also, late last year I was involved in an exhibition with 6 other artists, and as part of the promotion the organisers printed a whole bunch of postcards with our artworks on it, and I still have a stack of cards with this photo of mine on it: [link]
So if you want I can also send you one like that sometime
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Oh, I would be honoured receiving a postcard with my friends photo on it
You know, I really like Avant Cards, I keep following their new pictures and fans' ideas on fb. I just regret we don't have anything similar here in Poland.
I can't wait for my Australian postcard, which would make those winter days a little warmer (as it is -15 and 50 cm of snow over here!)
Have you ever thought about printing your own postcards? I know some people do so with their pictures and they're always so unique and beautiful.
And sure I can't wait for us to exchange again
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-15!
wow.
it's about 30 here today.
i've thought about printing my own postcards but i don't really have the $ for it.
that's why i was so happy when there were so many postcards left over from that exhibition - i can use them like business cards if i want
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Yes, travelling to Europe this days would be a real heat-stroke!
right, it must be quite expensive. Lucky you, with many postcards left after exhibition
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thanks so much for all the favs!
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You are quite welcome!
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thanks so much!
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