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Homeless

June 5, 2008 - 5:21 pm - Posted by Galina

Homeless woman had found in junk container something to eat. I made the snapshot in very center of Vienna.
This email I received today:
Dear Galina,
I read your blog today and it upset me that you are not finding satisfaction in Vienna.
I can understand why you are contemplating moving to another city or country - I think [...]

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Photo project

May 7, 2008 - 7:36 pm - Posted by Galina

Once I met an old artist in the street, he was in his usual shabby jacket with fringes at the bottom, dragging heavy suitcase with sketches and looking thoughtful. When I asked him, what was going on, he replied: “It is always the same - too much of work and too little or nothing of [...]

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Alter Ego

March 5, 2008 - 10:15 pm - Posted by Galina

Emigration creates stressful limit-situations when person loses his identification:
work, friends, relatives, property, language, life and career prospects
Can you stand this collapse of identifications?
- Being 47, I must run around in Vienna as homeless dog looking for institutions
who would approve what I am doing

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Vienna, Vienna!

December 3, 2007 - 5:19 pm - Posted by Galina

When pink morning light transits to yellow luminosity of midday, and wind blowing from Schmelz stops bringing meditative tunes of kukus bird, I start my everyday journey.
Mirror in my small flat is the gateway. I step behind it and as invisible clot of energy roll outside. Together with gust of wind I move along [...]

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Red

October 6, 2007 - 11:08 am - Posted by Galina

Gerry bended over me his face in dim lights of caf looking crimson, breathing out steams of five big beers he had gulped one after the other.
We were sitting in one of Graz oldest bars Barcelona during its blue evening, and in perspective I could observe three male couples flirting. Jerry was 52 years [...]

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To believe!

September 18, 2007 - 11:55 pm - Posted by Galina

I miss Graz, where I had spent more than five years of my - hard and unforgettable life. I miss Graz beggars. It is difficult to count how many beggary-marginality-homeless-alcoholics shots I made there. Thanks to Styria and its inhabitants, I opened totally new world for myself. But…There were also many incidents with chauvinistic [...]

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