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A Love Supreme †

Also to those who doesn’t know: ‘A Love Supreme’ is an album of 1964 by John Coltrane, the most significant American jazz avant-garde musician of the 20th century. A lots of love for his music, for his sensitivity and his courage to express himself in his own very special way.

Brand collaboration: Flying Painter , Kliokva & Nomik .moscow
Concept, art direction & photography: Olya Sharlat
Style & casting: Olya Sharlat
Model: Vasilisa Elpatevskaya
Production team: Daria Kamyshina , Vladislav Shatskhih .o.sh
BTS: Nikita Zen and we all
Studio: .studio
Special thanks to Bobo Mkhitar , Alexander Astashin
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A Love Supreme † / part II

/ ‘Art is an opportunity to understand your inner self and set it free’ Aidan Salakhova /

It is also a story about the true "Self". When you get rid of tinsel and leave only the most significant in your life, and you are not afraid to meet your innermost and therefore vulnerable part, you acquire internal supports. Strong inner supports don't need social masks, to put on a show, running from their truth in an attempt to save face. You recognize yourself and realize yourself as a beautiful creation of the universe, which does not need any additional conditions to be sufficient. Suprematist halos symbolize these supports: inner clarity and purity. When you are not afraid to say “White is white” and “Black is black”. When your life does not have any double bottom, unclear situations and you choose only what is truly important to you. When you don’t try to fit your life into someone else’s, hardened from childhood, often distorted ideas about right / wrong, which ultimately poison and corrupt from the inside, destroying your inner child, i.e. your joy and immediacy of manifestations before the world.

Visual simplicity and Suprematist halos translate the harmony and clarity of life positions, clarity of thought and moral attitudes of a person who cannot be confused by any kind of social manipulation, sub-games and juggling with ethical norms. War is war. Freedom is freedom. Ignorance is a reason to learn. And love is love.

Brand collaboration: Flying Painter , Kliokva & Nomik .moscow
Concept, art direction & photography: Olya Sharlat
Style & casting: Olya Sharlat
Model: Vasilisa Elpatevskaya
Production team: Daria Kamyshina , Vladislav Shatskhih .o.sh
Studio: .studio
Special thanks to Bobo Mkhitar , Alexander Astashin

Sasha , Tbilisi, May, 2021. Photo and print by Olya Sharlat .
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Ana , Tbilisi, September, 2020. Photo and print by Olya Sharlat .
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/ I consciously welcome pain. I receive emotional experience through pain. I don’t slash my wrists or anything like that, of course.. Emotional experience through pain is huge for a person who is engaged in art. It seems to me that you need to consciously opt for this experience, so that you can then feel it in your characters, in people, recognize what you are dealing with. And if you don’t live through this experience, it’s as if you don’t have this connection with the person.. / from the interview with movie director Natasha Meshchaninova

Uren Merte .merte, Moscow, 2019. Photo and print by Olya Sharlat .
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/ The word Mamihlapinatapai derives from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It allegedly refers to "A shared gaze between two people that expresses a wish that the other one initiates something they both want but none wants to initiate" /

Ana , Tbilisi, September, 2020. Photo and print by Olya Sharlat .
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