Our friend Aleksandra Radonic is an incredible photographer. Though she lives in Serbia and we live in the U.S., we met as admirers of each other’s work over the internet and have been emailing one another for two years now. Her work is astonishing, profound, magical and painterly. She has an incredible sense of drama and composition. Her work is quite unusual. She’s a stunning artist and a very talented and intelligent young woman. Did I mention that she also happens to be gorgeous? How is this possible? 

She created a montage of some of her photos and it’s accompanied by a Teslim song—Stone’s Throw (for Carla).

To tame the wood is not easy though many hands can do. But to make the wood sing the heavenly melody, a rare can do. A rare one as Ferron Valerio, maker of magical instruments with a workshop in Cremona, Italy. Ferron creates the charisma between beauty of the wood and beauty of the sound. In this world of fake beauty, this luthier is a true treasure. His instruments, carefully made by his young hands, magically transfer the soul of the tamed wood, with the heart of the player, into the immortal memory of the universe.

Recently this luthier has dedicated one of his instruments to me. It is a carved head viola, figure of my head. On Valerio's blog page you can see more photographs of the instrument.