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Details of my painting

These are the details of my painting Ghosts of the Past. Here you can see both the bird and the girl in a more detailed, close up way. Just click on the pictures to see a full size preview.

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You've felt it your entire life, that there's some

You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?

#matrix #taketheredpill #matrixjacket #wearingleather

A dreamy sunset in a stunning architectural locati

A dreamy sunset in a stunning architectural location in Copenhagen. I don't hate mondays when I get the privilege to do what Iove - I went filming today. And what I love about filming is that I get to live out the dream but also experience something unforgettable in real life, while creating something unique. It's like a trinity of all the best things. I would totally travel the world just to film!

#copenhagensunset #rooftopsunset #konditagetlüders #beautifularchitecture #unusualbuildings #colorpop #dowhatyoulove

I look like Alice from Wonderland in this look 👗 (you'll see a lot more of it, cuz I only have to shoot like 50 scenes in it 🤭🙃 see ya behind the looking glass 😉

#bluedress💙 #aliceinwonderland #bluedress #imdiggingthislook #hairmakeupdress #fashion

They say bad boys make good stories... I publish

They say bad boys make good stories...

I published my second edition of my book yesterday, on 9.9.2022. It's an interesting date, because I've always been pursued by number 99 and there's something almost mystical about it, but I'll reveal more about that in my next book "Post Mortem". (I promise I'm not one of those crazy numerology people🤣)

This book is about a small-ish part of my life when I was 18 that nevertheless turned out to be a larger than life, transcendental experience, which came to define my entire adult life. I mean, I used a decade to write a book about it! It's about big love, about Ukraine (and Denmark), about friendships and coming of age, but also about finding identity, yearning for a place of belonging, loss and depression.

I lived in Kyiv for a year when I was 17, moved back to Denmark to finish high school and met a man, who shared with me his origins but also dreams of finding a place to call home. He was my 31-year old driving instructor and by a bridge of coincidences lived in the same places, both in Denmark, but also in Ukraine: he came from Donetsk, where a part of my family comes from. He was my mentor, my idol, my sense of home, but I soon learned that nothing was as it seemed, as he played a cruel game, which led me down a very dark lonely path, from the highest high to the lowest low. So if you're interested in real-life but page turning romance, which takes place in an international setting, give it a look.

For the iphone users, you can get it in Apple books for free. Super easy and highly recommend. Link: https://books.apple.com/dk/book/lord-of-darkness/id6443379124
Be brave. I believe in you 😉🙃

For those of you who prefer to use Amazon there's a link in my bio 😘🥰 thanks in advance guys!

P.S. I changed a part of the title and edited the book cover. Pretty happy with the way it looks, the title has a metal sheet texture, which is kind of neat and fitting if you ask me, the artist 😄 it's sort of cold and intimidating...

#denmarkbook #ukraine #donetsk #lovestory #reallifestories #myfirstbook #memoir #lordofdarkness #drivinginstructor #booksaboutloveandloss #storyofmylife #ukrainebooks

My first time... trying an oyster 🤣🦪 it tast

My first time... trying an oyster 🤣🦪 it tasted like a flaccid, half boiled onion in a sea water brine, lol.

#oysters #tryingnewthings #tryingoystersforthefirsttime #tryingoysters #tryingoystersfirsttime #tasting #tastetestvideo #tastetest #becourageous #trysomethingnew

An excerpt from the chapter "Evil Eye" that I'm cu

An excerpt from the chapter "Evil Eye" that I'm currently working on, from my upcoming book "Post Mortem" ☺️ what do you think? It's a true story, so it's actually all factual. But then again, according to Susan Sontag, everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. ☝️ Writers and readers, do you agree?

p.s. I already see a few grammar mistakes😅 who wants to be my editor? for free ofc 🤪😅

#mywritings #mybook #indiewriter #upcomingbook #postmortem #partofachapterinmylife #memoir #lordofdarkness #imawriter #readmorebooks #readmybook #readsomethingnew #somethingdifferent #denmark #roskilde #drama #whathappenedtoyou #novel #novelwriting

I often dream of haunted houses. There's never any

I often dream of haunted houses. There's never any monsters in them, or knife yielding murderers - there's something much more terrifying - there's just me, surrounded by emptiness that has an invisible presence. In one of these haunting dreams, I walked through a seemingly endless mansion, lined with nothing but hundreds of different buffets, with even more drawers, all locked. And as I walked from room to room, from door to door, I heard a disembodied voice coming from a spinning record on an old phonograph. It kept repeating in short stacatto phrases, "I'm alone. I'm alone. I'm alone." And there was something deeply disturbing in that affirmation.

The city at night is just like that abandoned mansion - a maze of dark, claustrophobic, desolate chambers, it send you on an aimless drive through the desert of darkness, in a world where everything has died out, light incl. I don't know if it's a pursuit of something, or a flight from oneself.. either way, if I had to put that feeling into words, I would call it a pining void of solitude.

#darklamp #loneliness #tarkovskystalker #emptystreetsatnight #roamingthestreets #walkthroughdarkness #night #nighttime #poetry #aleksandrblok #imalone #solitude #eerievibe #creepyvideo #witchy #moodyfilm #emotive #depressing #bleak

best friends for everrrrrr! 20 years of comradeshi

best friends for everrrrrr! 20 years of comradeship 🤣🙌

#jumpintotheunknown #summercraziness #idorandomshi

#jumpintotheunknown #summercraziness #idorandomshit
#industriallandscape #girljumper #seascape #thestuffidoinmyfreetime #freetime😎 #havingfun

"If you're going to do something, do it well. And

"If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."

I just quoted Charles Manson.🫣Regardless of his evil deeds, he ain't wrong. He actually has some pretty striking quotes that I can't disagree with. Like this one: "Look down at me and see a fool, look up at me and see a god, look straight at me and you see yourself."

The nature of evil and of man is a complex and a nuanced thing, it's almost never black and white, and therefore the new ideology of puritanism is hypocritical and punitive: the majority of people are neither saints nor demons. This constant fixation on punishing moral digressions is poisonous: it stifles self expression, free speech, exploration of various ideas. It tries to extinguish the human in a human, the imperfect, all that is percieved as sinful. It's essentially self hatered, it's conformity, censorship and authoritarianism. I object to any sort of mind control and policing language. I believe in balance, the duality in us, but I do strive to stay true to my own moral principles and values, not the ones imposed on me by the society.

Sometimes virtues are vices, and vices are virtues. Is it not true that a vice of stealing can be a good thing if you steal a terror-attack information from a terrorist? Is it not true that the virtue of loving can be a vice if that person's love for a murderer prevents justice or enables him to take more lives?

We are perfectly capable of distinguishing bad from good in a certain context not by censorship but by discerning, we can separate art from the artist, and no one should be accused of being immoral just by reading Bulgakov (learn a little about him as a person, you will be quite horrified) or a child abuser when listening to Michael Jackson, or a rapist sympathiser as is often the case with R Kelly. Therefore, quote whoever you want to, and listen to what you want. There's enough limits and divisions in our lives already.

Oh man, I went on a tangent 😂 It was just supposed to be a fun and a witchy post.

#randomthoughts #ithinkalot #witchesofinstagram

So many times I wanted to leave you. So. Many. Tim

So many times I wanted to leave you. So. Many. Times. I tried, but you always found me again, in the dead of the night, or in a shaft of light striking where it was least expected, or in a flighty smile of a stranger. I wished for a lover who was going to give and not just take: emotions, resources, time. I invested everything into you, you were my destiny. And though I never loved anything more than I loved you, it was exhausting to be your chosen one - I had to neglect myself, my worldy desires, I had to sacrifice, while watching others get ahead.

You've been my blessing and my curse. I wouldn't even be me without you, though your love has been exhilirating, it has also been a torment more often than not. You showed me this world like nothing else did, thanks to you I have a purpose, but I also look at my life and see an absence of anything tangible: savings, stability, future plans, a job. I've become your tool, an extention of your force that you channel through me. And yet I live for these visions!

I have dedicated myself and years of my youth trying to express you with the quality that you deserve, even at times when I didn't wish to, when I felt sickened to my core from repeating the same task over and over again, when I would've rather worked, saved up, impressed my peers and seen the world. I watched others use their beauty, their connections, their education to carve their place under the sun, while I stared at the empty canvases and the cursor on a blank page. You have become my prison. Yet you also set me free.

I've been faithful like no one else. I've submitted to your call - my calling. Others abandoned you due to fears, money and other passions, but not me - I've put my own health, safety and even life on the line to honor you. I made no safety nets. I just followed you, blindly, like I followed my heart. In fact I loved you so badly I would've rather died than lived without you.

People judged me, they never understood, they shamed me for sticking with you - you, who doesn't pay my bills, who doesn't console me, but only demands more, while I shed tears in my lonely studio.

I love you, Art, but you're a conundrum that I can't solve.

A portrait of a Three of Wands person, using Mysti

A portrait of a Three of Wands person, using Mystical Moments tarot deck. I was curious how a certain someone sees me and himself. I got Two of Wands, he got Three of Wands. People often percieve these two cards being so similar that it appears as if it they are one and the same. But there's actually a progression here - three is a natural outcome of two, a consequence of a choice that was made. In this deck the similarity and the differences are quite obvious. Two of wands is like a quiet dream - three is more like a nightmare. 😆 Two holds the world in her hands but its three that is powerful and frightening in their dark glory, bearing the mantle of an urban existential emptiness. Also the braids that are considered magical attributes in various societies, also remind me of tentacles, that are reaching every part of this dark city. Lots of symbolism here!

It's important to remember that tarot reading is giving you intuitive and individul messages, even if though there's a general meaning in each card. Every deck has a slightly different interpretation based on the imagery and the "vibe."
P.S. I dunno why I pronounced "wands" in a weird way at the beginning 🤷‍♀️

#tarotofmysticalmoments #threeofwands #twoofwands #tarotdivination #magick

HAHAHAHAHA i did ask you to dance with me yesterda

HAHAHAHAHA i did ask you to dance with me yesterday! This is what happens when no one wants to join you, you just have to freak out on your own🤣😂🤭😜

#publicfreakout #dancelikenooneiswatching #dancingrandomly #imnotadancer #butiliketopretend #havefunbecauseyoucan #sunsetdance #beautifullocation #redheadbeauty #monatikuvliuvt #монатикувлиувт #увлиувт #танцуйподмонатика #танцынаулице #монатиктыкрутой

I went filming today and omg I got some amazing sh

I went filming today and omg I got some amazing shots, so freaking beautiful that it's nearly orgasmic for an artist/director, which is me, (in case you were assuming it's some beer-gutted dude)😅 I mean, do you know that feeling when you are beyond satisfied by a video and you just can't freaking stop admiring it. No, not from adult sites lmao. I mean, artistic vision? Well, it's a high! And I can't describe it fully, but if you are an author and you write a perfect line, or a musician and you get a perfect melody, it's that kind of exultation! Can't wait to show it off to you😍🥰🤭

#sunsetgirl #redheadbeauty #imsexyandiknowit😎

Paris in 2 days! It’s totally possible to see al

Paris in 2 days! It’s totally possible to see all the main attractions of the city of romance and love over a weekend! I managed 😆 Be prepared to walk about 15 kilometers per day, and use the metro. I divided Paris in two sections: East and West, and pretty much seen it all: Moulin Rouge, the catacombs, Champs Elysees, The arch of Triumph, Palace de la Concorde, Scare Cæur, Notre Dame cathedral, Pere Lachaise Cemetery etc. You won’t be able to see it in great detail, but it’s enough to get the vibe and overview of the city. It was so worth it🥰

#parisintwodays #weekendinparis #parisbyfoot #summerinparis #wanderlust #traveltips

Riding empty trains at night is like an illusory d

Riding empty trains at night is like an illusory dream: so lonely, somnolent and blue.

#trainsatnight #trainstations #railroadplatform #deepbluesky #summerindenmark #trippyreels #lonelinessthoughts✨

Setting the course for the moon🌔🌙 #moonont

Setting the course for the moon🌔🌙

#moonontheroad #fullmoonvibes #witchesofinstagram #moonlight #nightwalks

Okay, I'll post this one too 😅 the sunset was j

Okay, I'll post this one too 😅 the sunset was just irresistible

#sunsetgirl #redhairinthesun #midsummer #redsunset #redheadlife #redheadwitch

So I was planning to shoot a pretty reel, but then

So I was planning to shoot a pretty reel, but then I decided to just have fun 🤡👻 and yes it's me squealing in the distance, not a seagull 🤣 with all the drama in the world, life is too short to always be so serious!

#circussunset #sunsets #runningtosunset #havefunpeople #redhairdontcare #witchesofinstagram #lightenup

Never got to share my progress with our community

Never got to share my progress with our community garden plot. If the plot is not a compelete jungle to begin with and you've got the right tools, it's not difficult at all to deweed, mawn the lawn and plant some flowers and greens. I'm not a gardener by any means, more of a newbie actually, but just look at the startling difference - we only used about an hour a day to give it a face lift :)

We actualy had another plot in a different location that we never got to work on, because it was unmanagably big, overgrown, far away from our house and had no WC facilities.. the devil is in the details ;) small things make a big difference.

#communitygardens #novicegardener #rabbitfriendlygarden #rabbitsinagarden #rabbitlover #communitygardening #beforeandaftergarden #summerinagarden #lushvegetation #plotofland #rabbits

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