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Elisa

Irgendwann ist auch ein Traum zu lange her

About Me

There are many ways to be free. One of them is
to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
--Anais Nin

To view more of my work, you can either visit my deviantart gallery or my website

Some of my works are available on big canvas (100 cm by 80 or 100 cm) through art department Room9 .



Thank you to the friends and models who allowed me to work with their photo's: Caroline (Lady of the sea) & Natalia (Ullyses), Julie (Mare & Cataracta), Neebow-stock (Viola & Phobia), Dani-stock (A funeral of Crows, Lovelorn Rhapsody, Crestfallen, Inside) and 9mm-stock (Vampiria). Original copyright of these photographs belongs to their respective owners.

My Interests

(alternative) cinema, literature, photography, museums on art and history, cats, music, nighttime, experimental psychology, open minded people, spring showers, webdesign, concerts, tea, cycling through the night, traveling, reading in the train, meeting strangers, beautiful voices, accents, languages, pilates, sleeping.

I'd like to meet:

Artists, dreamers, anyone who inspires and has something to say.

Music:

anathema, madrugada, jeff buckley, samael, the gathering, domenico scarlatti, david bowie, kate bush, georg philipp telemann, jacques brel, dead can dance, otis redding, heather nova, lacrimosa, wolfsheim, eagles.

Movies:

L'appartement, Trois couleurs: Rouge, Lost Highway, Teaching Rita, La meglio gioventu, A la folie... pas du tout, Requiem for a dream, V for vendetta, Hair, La vita è bella, Magnolia, Picknick at Hanging Rock, Mina Tannenbaum.

Television:

AbFab. Q.I. Het uur van de wolf. Never mind the buzzcocks.

Books:

Emily Bronte - Wuthering heights // D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's lover // Voltaire - Candide & Zadig // Anais Nin - June and Henry // Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South (NOT the story of the American tv series, but a British novel!) // Anne Bronte - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall // Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles // F. Scott Fitzgerald - The great Gatsby // Louis Couperus - Eline Vere // John Steinbeck - To a God unknown // Ingrid Noll -Die Apothekerin // Iwan Turgenew - Torrents of Spring // Siegfried Lenz - Es waren Habichte in der Luft // J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter // Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace, Dancing girls, The Blind Assassin, Life before Man, Oryx & Crake, Cat's eye, The Penelopiad. Geert Kimpen - De kabbalist.The list goes on and on.

My Blog

lost

Sometimes, I think his nose is made of stone.His eyes are blue pearls that twinklebut wear out too soon.No-one may look at them but mefor his eyes tell storiesand his mouth whispers secretsthat I am o...
Posted by valhalla-vanilla on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 05:07:00 PST

tabula rasa

Ever since I can remember, books have been my home. And with every book I read, I wanted to proceed to the index page of a new one and be blank again. Susceptible to new words, new ideas, new world...
Posted by valhalla-vanilla on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:53:00 PST