Roma Okhotnikov
Time Traveller
Today is the birthday of one of my best friends, Sasha ‘Edler’ Mochalov, wonderful musician, poet, founder and co-leader of one of my favourite band “Mezozoy” (another co-leader – his wife Nastya Frolova, my big friend too). In this year Edler decided not to celebrate, that’s why I’ve found myself in those village Achapnoe in Nizhny Novgorod region, about 350 km from my home, in a dream and not for real (I’ve planned to hitchhike there again, even bought the power bank to be able to listen music all the way and borrowed the palm-sized micro-combo for my guitar. Achapnoe is one of my favourite places on the Earth and Edler’s and Nastya’s company is the very best for my taste, we spent a lot of precious for me time together, just three of us). First thing in the morning I decided to congratulate Edler with some photos about him, which I have in abundance on my hdd. Instead, I made this one, from the birthday concert for Nastya at Nizhny Novgorod in this June. In this photo aren’t no Sasha or Nastya and figured some of our mutual friends, but it somehow focused on this there Katya. Isn’t she the real McCoy of beauty? My heart rejoices watching. She's like in her own time here. Maybe everywhere and always. I’m making photos rather slow and not in a hurry at all, as befits a true artist. I could make the image years later after it was taken. My friends tolerate this, they’re artists too.
On my long way to freedom (see about it the texts with my previous photos) I decided do not adhere to the photo-series if I’m not feel like that and not even mention the war if I don’t want to. I feel that creating something on another, peace side is anti-war as well. Maybe even more effective. “Make love, not war” still sounds like the very best recipe to destroy the war for me. And I’ll definitely show you Edler soon. I’m still honored and proud that he asked me to perform the sitar part in his song “Do not cut water with an ax”. He made it about 2 years before the war, but it’s like the perfect commentary to it, not to say the prophecy. It’s still on YouTube as well as in the Mezozoy’s repertoire, as anti-war as the song could be, you could check it out if you’ll fancy to see me playing sitar:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1SFmcD-Vl4
Time Traveller
Today is the birthday of one of my best friends, Sasha ‘Edler’ Mochalov, wonderful musician, poet, founder and co-leader of one of my favourite band “Mezozoy” (another co-leader – his wife Nastya Frolova, my big friend too). In this year Edler decided not to celebrate, that’s why I’ve found myself in those village Achapnoe in Nizhny Novgorod region, about 350 km from my home, in a dream and not for real (I’ve planned to hitchhike there again, even bought the power bank to be able to listen music all the way and borrowed the palm-sized micro-combo for my guitar. Achapnoe is one of my favourite places on the Earth and Edler’s and Nastya’s company is the very best for my taste, we spent a lot of precious for me time together, just three of us). First thing in the morning I decided to congratulate Edler with some photos about him, which I have in abundance on my hdd. Instead, I made this one, from the birthday concert for Nastya at Nizhny Novgorod in this June. In this photo aren’t no Sasha or Nastya and figured some of our mutual friends, but it somehow focused on this there Katya. Isn’t she the real McCoy of beauty? My heart rejoices watching. She's like in her own time here. Maybe everywhere and always. I’m making photos rather slow and not in a hurry at all, as befits a true artist. I could make the image years later after it was taken. My friends tolerate this, they’re artists too.
On my long way to freedom (see about it the texts with my previous photos) I decided do not adhere to the photo-series if I’m not feel like that and not even mention the war if I don’t want to. I feel that creating something on another, peace side is anti-war as well. Maybe even more effective. “Make love, not war” still sounds like the very best recipe to destroy the war for me. And I’ll definitely show you Edler soon. I’m still honored and proud that he asked me to perform the sitar part in his song “Do not cut water with an ax”. He made it about 2 years before the war, but it’s like the perfect commentary to it, not to say the prophecy. It’s still on YouTube as well as in the Mezozoy’s repertoire, as anti-war as the song could be, you could check it out if you’ll fancy to see me playing sitar:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1SFmcD-Vl4