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Month: October 2025
Double exposing with Witi
over recent weeks I have been trying my hand at analogue double exposures with mu Nikon FM2n and my lovely Voigtlander Nokton 58mm f1,4. Mixed results but some of them I am pleased with. Obviously more experiments requires. These were taken on Kentemere ISO 200 and developed in Adox D-76
Feathered hush
Between blur and brightness, a secret lifts,
and night grows soft enough to wear.
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Anonymous walls in the color of these days.
Mirror of Quiet Fire
She meets the light without blinking.
Feathers keep the night close,
skin keeps the memory of wings.
Between reflection and gaze,
a boundary loosens—
and the room learns her name in silence.
Arc of Quiet
Light draws a line across her body like a vow,
breath held between shadow and wood.
An instant of suspension—
where gravity forgets, and grace remembers.
Thank U 4 The Flowers
Clothes make the man (Kleider machen Leute)
A TRANSFORMATION ON THE SPECTRUM OF GENDER
We live in a gender binary system, where you can't buy a single piece of clothing without first entering one of the two sections: "woman" or "man". Even when buying a white shirt or sneakers, an online shop will usually first force you to pick a gender.
Why don't we see the spectrum of gender more like different colors? Just like colors, the meaning of clothing changes over time and between cultures. Pink was considered a male color, roman warriors wore skirts to battle and in scotland kilts are still a thing.
But, in your present, in the culture you are living in, all those things feel like unchangable conventions which must not be changed.
Maybe clothing needs meaning, maybe without it something would be missing. Am I interested in wearing a dress EVEN THOUGH it is considered female or am attracted to it BECAUSE it is considered female?
Do we give the meaning to the clothes or do the clothes define who we are?
Both is true.
The roof is on fire.
It's all about a room with a view.
Die Kastanie
Versteckt im Wald, unter vielen Bäumen kämpft die kleine Kastanie um ihr Überleben. Eine winzige Lichtung hat sie gefunden, eine, die zuweilen von einem Sonnenstrahl beschienen wird. Doch zumeist reckt sie sich, um dem Schatten zu entrinnen, den Schatten.
Ksenia positioniert sich ebenso. Licht und Schatten kämpfen um die Vorherrschaft. Ebenso sind es die Stimmungen, die mal auf die eine, dann auf die andere Weise Vorherrschaft gewinnen.