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In Love with Illusions

One of the meanings of the word “prohibition” is “negative obligation”.
99,9 per cent of the human genes are identical. Practically all things in the Universe have life cycles. Primitively speaking, most living beings are born to eat, sleep, reproduce themselves, die and become food for the earth or other beings. Most organisms are constantly born to go through almost identical stages. Some of them evolve or become more complex. Some seem to be reproduced invariable – as some nice links in chains of nature, food or other aspects of keeping life balance and production. To evolve a real lot species must go through some massive extinction, either within other populations or through intrapopulation selection.
I started reading articles written in formal style, full of scientific terms. “Do they talk about living creatures? – It seems more about something inanimate, say, plastic, etc.”. Seems that what remains different in the genomes could never have been enough to produce such prominent binary systems of good and bad. Neither would all the life-cycle principle give an opportunity for such diversity. Or so much hatred that so many people have. People do want to be unique. And do want to “label” something or someone. But “uniqueness” seems to lose all the sense when it comes to massive and seemingly unrelated collectives, not individuals.
Unfortunately, there is so much more to it.

Ekaterina Zagustina (aka KatjaFaith) is a Russian illustrator and photographer. The base of most of her works is a photograph, digitally manipulated and/or mixed with digital painting. Among her publications are several book covers for Apex Book Company, Viaje a Bizancio Ediciones, cover art for THE SORROW KING by Andersen Prunty, as well as some other book illustrations and CD-covers for US, Canadian, Spanish and Russian clients.

Awards Ekaterina Zagustina (aka KatjaFaith) is a Russian illustrator and photographer. The base of most of her works is a photograph, digitally manipulated and/or mixed with digital painting. Among her publications are several book covers for Apex Book Company, Viaje a Bizancio Ediciones, cover art for THE SORROW KING by Andersen Prunty, EXIT by Shane Filer, as well as some other book illustrations and CD-covers (US, Canada, Spain, Russia). Her works have been featured in PhotArt, Fashion Collection, BigMag, Sugarkiss Magazine, Sketchozine, Apex Magazine, #photography, etc.

Among the awards are:

- Trierenberg Super Circuit and Special Themes Circuit 2012: Goldmedal (subcategory)
- Prix de la Photographie (Px3) People's Choice Awards 2012: Bronze (Special: Digitally Enhanced)
- International Photography Awards (IPA) 2012: Honorable mention (Special: Digitally Enhanced)
- Trierenberg Super Circuit and Special Themes Circuit 2013: Goldmedal of Excellence (Special Themes)
- IPA 2013 Non-Professional: Honorable mention (Special: Digitally Enhanced)
- Trierenberg Super Circuit and Special Themes Circuit 2014: Goldmedal of Excellence (Special Themes)
- Trierenberg Super Circuit and Special Themes Circuit 2015: Goldmedal (Unusual)
and some others.