Mystery of red antelope

Employment-2

Galina Toktalieva — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:21:39 +0000

em>Galina Toktalieva for Die Wiener Nachrichten Photo Galina Toktalieva Draw a straight line on the sheet of paper. If to know that there is no beginning or end to it, and that space can be unfolded in both directions, then any given point there may be considered as center of infinity. If such center of creation is [...]

Employment

Galina Toktalieva — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:05:50 +0000

Galina Toktalieva for Die Wiener Nachrichten I met artist Walter in front of Sackstrasse gallery, where he stopped for a while to say hello to Graz ex-politician Tatiana – small buoyant gregarious lady with bleached hair, accompanied by gentleman of provincially respectable looks. Walter was going to his cramped stinking studio, opposite of stylish Marko office. [...]

Pollution and poverty in Kyrgyzstan

Galina Toktalieva — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:32:32 +0000

em>By Alex Kirby, BBC Edited by Galina Toktalieva Twenty years after independence, this small Central Asian state remains one of the poorest among former Soviet Union respublics, struggling to make its way in a complex and sometimes hostile world. There is something of Arcadia about Kyrgyzstan in the spring. Heading out of the southern city of Osh, you [...]

Graz

Galina Toktalieva — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:54:49 +0000

em>Photo Galina Toktalieva Graz, with a population of around 300,000 is the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna and the capital of the federal state of Styria. Graz is a student city: its six universities have more than 44,000 students. Graz’s “Old Town” is one of the best-preserved city centres in Central Europe. The city is situated on [...]

In search of heaven – last but not least

Galina Toktalieva — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:20:27 +0000

em>Galina Toktalieva for Die Wiener Nachrichten Photo by Werner Braun Why stallions with their semen are as valuable as diligent honey bees I am sitting at the bench in dusty scanty garden in vicinities of Schmelz Bridge, hearing clang of trains passing by and looking at thin dirty pigeons mating at the lawn. Males unfurl there feathers, spread [...]

In search of heaven-12 [Mein Himmel-12]

Galina Toktalieva — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:11:55 +0000

em>Galina Toktalieva for Die Wiener Nachrichten Photo Galina Toktalieva Jetzt mit Übersetzung Why to lock the door may be more important than anything else If sitting in my Vienna flat, one looks outside, all he can see is dusty gray wall of dwelling house across with five rows of watchful windows. The martyrs of big cities, sentenced to lifelong [...]

In search of heaven-11 [Mein Himmel-11]

Galina Toktalieva — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:33:49 +0000

em>Galina Toktalieva for Die Wiener Nachrichten Jetzt mit Übersetzung Photo Galina Toktalieva What do lonely women without umbrellas seek tonight The rain was still coming down in torrents. The same view on the square below with green umbrellas of guesthouse could be seen from my mansard upstairs. But the kitchen I was sitting in now seemed totally unfamiliar to [...]

In search of heaven-10 [Mein Himmel-10]

Galina Toktalieva — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:09:14 +0000

em>Galina Toktalieva for die Wiener Nachrichten Photo Galina Toktalieva Jetzt mit Übersetzung How to make dreams come true? What are secret formulas to get what you want? Galina never stops thinking about it. If to keep looking at the shining surface of the teapot or at radiating lamp in the kitchen for some time, the channel can open. Not [...]

In search of heaven-9 [Mein Himmel-9]

Galina Toktalieva — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:36:49 +0000

em>Galina Toktalieva for Die Wiener Nachrichten Photo Galina Toktalieva Jetzt mit Übersetzung What is in common between female ruthlessness, communists and migration institutions The thought was fleeting and elusive as lizard. I chased it, as one can run after wind or rainbow, and caught it holding slick thing tight, but next moment it slipped away giving away the tail [...]

In search of heaven-8 [Mein Himmel-8]

Galina Toktalieva — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:10:32 +0000

em>Galina Toktalieva for Die Wiener Nachrichten Photo Galina Toktalieva Jetzt mit Übersetzung To eat or not to eat? A few thoughts about vegi restaurants Homelessness excited my gastronomic exuberance till unexpected degree, and passing every restaurant with ravishing schnitzel smells, I stopped by doors tormented to rush in and plunge my teeth in huge pierce of meat. The very [...]

In search of heaven-7 [Mein Himmel-7]

Galina Toktalieva — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:06:53 +0000

em>Galina Toktalieva for Die Wiener Nachrichten Photo Galina Toktalieva Jetzt mit Übersetzung Wallet Early in the morning I strolled toward Graz job office which was situated opposite of best town bordel. Nightclub stood at the corner of the noisy street, in bright sober morning looking more like the fort than the ecstasy harbor, with picturesque paintings and statues above [...]

In search of heaven-6 [Mein Himmel-6]

Galina Toktalieva — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:04:02 +0000

em>Galina Toktalieva for Die Wiener Nachrichten Photo Werner Braun Jetzt mit Übersetzung All what we passionately desire, we already have. At the moment of longing we are connected to object of our wish Today I got up early to see Vienna sunrise. It was a quarter to four, and heavy boots of newspaper delivery man just tramped down the [...]