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Dorota Korwin-Szymanowska

Dorota Korwin-Szymanowska

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Do I like my body?

I’ve been thinking about such post for a very very long time, because many times I’ve been asked about my huge confidence and freedom of my body. Mainly girls and women seem to be sure that I’ve always been so. Well... the truth is completely different. For many years I had really hated my body. I have scoliosis which was diagnosed when I was 13 years old. It was so huge that doctors wanted to put me on operation table to input metals next to my spine to keep it in shape. Luckily they ...

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Autumnal Wind

I love when the Wind brings changes felt in the air. The Autumnal Wind is always very special for me. It brings not only colder days, but also days of time of Spirits. Days when thin line between realities is even more delicate than usual. When you can hear and feel old Friends wandering through the wild Forest. Beauty of melancholy is singing quietly with the music of such Wind.

I've never celebrate Samhain (or other names for these days) because I've never felt the need. This year...

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Painting time

Recently I'm much more back to drawing, sketching and painting. In past days, before I cautgh camera, I used to create a lot this way. So now, why don't create pictures during creating pictures? Always in good company (even cat without a head came to me...).

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The Curator Magazine Article

Thinloth’s Romanticism: Emancipation of Women’s Witch-hood

“I want to show every piece of being a woman in a  wonderful and dignified form. I want to capture gentle sensuality, wild  untamed freedom and even naughty sexiness. Almost every woman has all of  these crumbs inside her. Of course they can be differently balanced,  sometimes some of them can be hidden very deeply, buried and forgotten  but they do exist.” Thinloth View Post

Rainy Days

When it's rainy, when it's muddy
Stay in bed to play with body.

It's a pleasure, it's a fun
Being lazy, that's a plan!

Writing trifles is a nothing
When my brain is slowly fluffing...

Forgive me happy "poem" creativity.  It's been raining all the time these last days... I can almost drown in mud in front of my cottage, about going out to the Forest I can only dream - I live in area with clay substrate so now it's muddy and slippery ev...

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Lace Lingerie

Do you like such kind of lingerie? I do! :)

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Calmness Sketching

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere an...

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Niva

Eyes like a bottomless abyss.
Hypnotyzing. Fascinating. Thrilling.

Niva - Strix uralensis - amazing Spirit who enchanted my heart totally. I had a pleasure to met her few years ago during one photo workshops, on which I worked as a model. But it was very quick meeting. Recently I felt the need to create some pictures with Soul of Freedom. That's why I asked Krzysiek for help. Great guy, full of empathy, skills of birds language and faith in people. Still. Beside the wonderfu...

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October Morning

The most beautiful time for my creative Soul is just coming. A time of coolness, lazy Mists, golden morning light... Time that fills me to the brim and pushes me to capture the delicate moments of the day in the frames.

You can't even imagine how happy I am to welcome Autumn again!

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Agresja

There is peaceful.
There is wild.
I am both at the same time.

Self-portrait with my dearest Agresja. Yes, it is self-portrait but this time, I admit, I needed assistant to press the button, once everything was set up. :)

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Morning Linden

Balance is the key.
In body. In mind. In Soul.

Today the gold Linden woke me by knocking branches on the window. The rising Sun inspired me to brew tea from nettle and mint collected in front of my cottage. The soft Wind inspired to derive the peace and harmony of the morning. Crisp air inspired to let all of them fly gently in my mind and calm torn Soul.

Wish, my dears, beautiful day of the Autumn, wherever you are! :)

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Soulmate

She knows a lot.
She feels a lot.
She helps a lot.
And only ravens witnessed this secrecy.
Carrying away down by the silent river.

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Small Trip

Recently I was able to make a "small" trip from my world to search new inspirations and different kind of calmness for my mind. Finally, after many years of dreaming I was able to visit place with really amazing Trees. The Oaks which are few hundreds years old! They are gigantic. Their majesty made me smaller and smaller in my eyes. Their power gave me feeling of littleness of myself. But very safe littleness. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to meet the oldest one which is still alive in this ar...

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Creative Visit

As I mentioned, sometimes I like working with others. Being a tool for their imagination, for their point of view. Rarely, but still, I do such cooperation. It's good way to recharge my batteries, to fly carefree in front of camera without thinking about everything. Just be.

Księżycolica is my "phot-love" from the very first meeting. This young talented girl has lovely fresh will to create! Moreover - she create according to her Soul, not others inspirations. Maybe that's why working ...

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Wake Up

 "After  a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had  been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain to answer in my  sleep, as what—how—when—where? But there was dawning Nature, in whom all  creatures live, looking in at my broad windows with serene and  satisfied face, and no question on her lips. I awoke to an answered  question, to Nature and daylight."
/ Henry David Thoreau, Walden /

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Roots of Spells

"Most of the old moles I know wish they have listened less to their fears and more to their dreams."
/ Charlie Mackesy "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" /

From the very childhood I was a bit "different". Always have lived in own head. In own dreams. And always have tried to make dreams come reality. Yes, I live in a fairytale. My fairytale. Of course, like every tale it has also "dark side", but that made it only more real. And I won't change it fo...

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Stasiuk

 

It is good to live in non-obvious lands because their boundaries contain more space than geography indicates. These are the abyss of the unknown, that is, the infinite distance of guesswork, the fleeing horizon of imaginations and a mirage of sweet superstitions that reality will never live up to.      
/ Andrzej Stasiuk, On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe /

After long and hot summer days, laziness with...

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Pneuma

 Pneuma (πνεῦμα) is an ancient Greek word for "breath", spirit or soul, air in motion, wind . It has various technical meanings for medical writers and philosophers of classical antiquity.  In classical philosophy, it is distinguishable from psyche (ψυχή), which originally meant "breath of life".

 I love creating on the spur of the moment. Influenced by what reality brings me. Today magnificent Wind asked ...

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Hide & Seek with Shadows

I just love how the light play in my home in different year seasons. Now it's the time when, after morning coffee, shadows of climbing rose which overgrowing my cottage, dance on the floor of the living room.

So I let myself to be invited and drowned in inaudible music of this amazing show.

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Rebirth in the Forest

Vanishing. Being one. Standing up again. Reborn.

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Morning Lake

I really love discovering world around me right before the Sunrise. Then, observing how first rays of the Sun brings the natural Magic out of it, is more powerful and enjoyable. Watching fragile Mists escaping on the calm surface of the lake. Witnessing when the unknown waters becoming a bath fullfilled with the light. And becoming one with all of these. Vanishing in this wonderful Magic of everyday spells.

With my best assistant - Wierzba - who loves being in frames... :)

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Kolovrat

 Svarga – also known as swiaszczyca, swarzyca, swarozyca, or an eight-armed kolovrat,  is probably the best known and the most common slavic symbol.
The symbolism of the swarzyca (or generally swastika) is as simple and obvious, as ambiguous. It can symbolize the Sun (especially the kolovrat has a very  “sunny” shape). Number four is it’s important part, which also gives  interest...

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Bath in the Sunrise

Small story full of simplicity, silence, rising power, calmness, joy, feeling good. All caused by amazing surroundings of Nature which is full of all of mentioned and is the greatest inspiration not only for creativity, but for life itself!

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Secret Hotel Room

Last weekend I had some duties according to my work with monuments and had an opportunity to stay in lovely castle for a night. It was very fast decision  - let's try to create something new for me, something different with such extraordinary interior! After the sunset I even enjoyed the artificial light from lamps.

Please, let me know how you like this kind of sensual photography. :)

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Before the Sunrise

While the world is still covered with a veil of darkness, all kinds of creatures can be found by the river. When all lumberjacks or other Forest intruders still sleep in their warm beds. And you can hear only quiet whispers of water dancing on the rocks.


Additionally I'm adding a photo which is a little sneak peak about post from "wild series".
 :)

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Wild Apple Tree

What about your imagination? When you’re on the walk, does it see some wild creatures dancing nearby in the morning Sun? Or maybe not your imagination but you see such creatures? :)

Additionally I'm adding a photo which is a little sneak peak about post from "sensual series".

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Misty River

Mist wondering on the dancing river with first rays of the waking up Sun creates Magic. Magic which releashes hidden creatures.

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Rogu

Dearests!

Few days ago Rogu fell asleep. Cuddled with great love till his very last breath.
He  wasn’t only part of my Family. He wasn’t only part of my world. He  created all of these. By his amazing Spirit and showing his very own  point of view on the surrounded reality. 

I don't stop creating because of the grief. I put myself more into creating now. Creating in different worlds. Beautiful worlds. With his Spirit present in them.

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Real Mysterious

 "I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality."
- Ingmar Bergman

Today's morning woke me up wtih extremely enchanted world. I wasn't sure - am I still dreaming? Such wonderful Mist in the middle of the summer? How could it be so? Oh, it was true medicine for my Soul.

And for your ears sounds witch accompanied me during working on these photos.
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Morning in the Forest

Once again, before the Sunrise, the Forest called me for a very long walk. Led by the Moon I stepped into the valey drowned in marvelous, extremely quiet Mist. Every Tree was sleeping without a slightest murmur.  I wished to dance with this wonderful Magic but ... not wanting to disturb anyone, I just slipped on tiptoes so as not to wake any of the sleepyheads, and entered a Forest path leading up the hill.

There I met Him. Brilliant, mature, lonely deer standing in the middle of t...

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