anin tiwn ~ nina twin

Dead dog with man

I felt very honored when The Georgia Review asked if I wanted to be the featured artist in the spring issue of 2016. Today it arrived in my mailbox.

... and they silently fell into it and moved within the transparency of all things, yet they were visible to each other, their eyes transfixed on the ornery beauty constantly pouring out from the signal station

Valerie Marie Osten Shafer couldn't help but laugh as her grasp of reality slipped, or changed, and she knew she was not tied down by any shape or form, that indeed she was the creator of all things.

Schaeffer Ademaro Mandelbaum was arrested for opium smuggling in 1928.

therapy

Valerie Marie Osten Shafer first attended the Abschalten Sanatorium in 1917, where she under the supervision of dr Albert Ruben Hausenfelt Wassenschlagen was treated for melancholia and general fatigue.

Emmerich Sepp Edelweizen-Schnapphalden revisits the Gukkenwald Alps with Pfalzgräfin Ermengard Huette Schönburg-Glauchau in the winter of 1931

Gerard von Katterheinrich Wolstenstein devasted by the death of Valerie Marie Osten Shafer, didn’t marry until he met Zelma Odella Hoffenstaphen Rupenhoff in 1927. Later the following year they relocated from Berlin to Los Angeles.

Valerie Marie Osten Chafer’s little sister, Ludwiga Konstanze Osten Chafer, realizes her deep feelings for Anatol Samuel von Bismarck-Schönhausen as she rises from the Gukkenwald's wild spring

Nadine Edeltraud Achen Baader connects with her environment and experiences a revelation despite of her broken heart

Psychoanalyst Albert Ruben Hausenfelt Wassenschlagen with his favorite patient, Valerie Marie Osten Shafer

Gukkenwald never changed. It was the people who changed.

Federico García Lorca

Rilke

Sola, portrait.