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Drop: Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain Last Light Throw Pillow ⬛ DROP Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain Last Light (Throw Pillow)A modern Mona Lisa reimagining in warm sunset glow with reflective street detail. Full-figure Mona Lisa is shown seated beyond the familiar crop. BETWEEN collection style where classic art meets modern realism. Built with calm tension, clean composition, and intentional space for a collectible series feel. 100% spun-polyester fabric…

Drop: Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain Last Light Throw Pillow

⬛ DROP Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain Last Light (Throw Pillow)A modern Mona Lisa reimagining in warm sunset glow with reflective street detail. Full-figure Mona Lisa is shown seated beyond the familiar crop. BETWEEN collection style…

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Drop: Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain Last Light PopSockets PopWallet for MagSafe

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Drop: Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain Last Light PopSockets PopGrip for MagSafe

The Mona Lisa Golden Hour PopGrip merges classic art with modern design, featuring a swappable top and MagSafe compatibility for easy accessory changes.

Drop: Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain Last Light PopSockets Adhesive PopGrip The PopSockets Adhesive PopGrip features a Mona Lisa design set in a golden-hour scene, blending classic art with modern realism, and is compatible with smooth cases.

Drop: Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain Last Light PopSockets Adhesive PopGrip

The PopSockets Adhesive PopGrip features a Mona Lisa design set in a golden-hour scene, blending classic art with modern realism, and is compatible with smooth cases.

Drop: Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain Last Light Tote Bag The Mona Lisa Golden Hour tote bag features a cinematic scene with durable design elements, blending classic art with modern realism for versatile use.

Drop: Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain Last Light Tote Bag

The Mona Lisa Golden Hour tote bag features a cinematic scene with durable design elements, blending classic art with modern realism for versatile use.

Where It Takes Root, Part 2: When Belonging Has a Price Part 2 explains how LGBTQ people become the price of belonging. It links Soviet era criminalization and inherited silence, the 1990s search for moral certainty, and Russia’s traditional values laws to a portable media script. In diaspora churches and families, protection language becomes exclusion, even when it sounds like love.

Part 2 is live. How LGBTQ People Became the Price of Belonging. I look at how “protection” rhetoric turns exclusion into a loyalty test, and how Soviet-era shame plus modern Russian state messaging helps that script spread across the diaspora. This is about the mechanism, not a single family.

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Drop: Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain Pullover Hoodie

⬛ DROP Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain (Pullover Hoodie)Modern Constructivist collage with a Mona Lisa centerpiece and a cinematic golden-hour-after-rain mood. Built as a bold statement design, not decoration. BETWEEN collection style:…

STUDIO LOG: We Are All a Little Constructivist The post explores Constructivism's true essence, emphasizing purpose and intention over spectacle, advocating for meaningful connections through reflection and restraint rather than loud performance.

STUDIO LOG: We Are All a Little Constructivist

The post explores Constructivism's true essence, emphasizing purpose and intention over spectacle, advocating for meaningful connections through reflection and restraint rather than loud performance.

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Drop: Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain T-Shirt

The "Mona Lisa Golden Hour After Rain" T-Shirt features a clean design and controlled contrast, emphasizing its visual appeal. Customers can shop directly or explore the Mona Lisa Series hub for a more relaxed browsing experience. The tagline…

Where It Takes Root, Part 1: The Making of a Portable Faith System Part 1 of the 3-part series traces how underground evangelical life in the USSR learned belonging, then absorbed Western charismatic models after the 1990s opening. It shows how leadership pipelines, messaging logic, and insider outsider boundaries became repeatable across borders. This is the groundwork for a diaspora faith culture that sounds loving while enforcing conformity.

Part 1 "The Making of a Portable Faith System" of my “Where It Takes Root” series is live. I trace how a diaspora faith culture learned scalable ministry models and “guarded belonging,” and how the language of love can still create a boundary that pushes LGBTQ people out. Context, not revenge.

Ethics as Dialogue: What Holds Us Together When Judgment Is Easy Ethics is not born from certainty, but from restraint. In a time when judgment is easy and outrage is loud, this reflection explores how accountability can exist without erasure, and how communities endure when ethics is practiced as dialogue, proportion, and care for the common good.

Ethics as Dialogue: What Holds Us Together When Judgment Is Easy

Ethics is not born from certainty, but from restraint. In a time when judgment is easy and outrage is loud, this reflection explores how accountability can exist without erasure, and how communities endure when ethics is practiced as…

From Decor to Dialogue: The Making of Crowned Toward the Void What began as a mass-produced triptych became a quiet act of transformation. Through layered paint, restraint, and deliberate interruption, a decorative object evolved into a singular work. Crowned Toward the Void explores presence, direction, and the moment of standing still before choosing what comes next.

From Decor to Dialogue: The Making of Crowned Toward the Void

What began as a mass-produced triptych became a quiet act of transformation. Through layered paint, restraint, and deliberate interruption, a decorative object evolved into a singular work. Crowned Toward the Void explores presence,…

La Gioconda Visiting Her Old Friend Leonardo Created in 2010, La Gioconda Visiting Her Old Friend Leonardo reimagines the Mona Lisa as a visitor rather than an icon. Through constructed space, borrowed history, and quiet light, the work explores authorship, lineage, and presence, inviting reflection on how classical images continue to live beyond their frames.

Created in 2010, La Gioconda Visiting Her Old Friend Leonardo reimagines Mona Lisa as a visitor, not an icon. Through light, space, and borrowed history, the work reflects on authorship, lineage, and how classical images continue to live beyond their frames.

Ethics Is What Holds Us Together The essay discusses the current state of communication, emphasizing the need for ethical dialogue amidst cultural divisions and a breakdown of trust. It highlights listening as a vital component of understanding, the importance of character over credentials, and stresses that ethical responsibility extends to individuals and institutions, ultimately supporting the common good.

Ethics Is What Holds Us Together

The essay discusses the current state of communication, emphasizing the need for ethical dialogue amidst cultural divisions and a breakdown of trust. It highlights listening as a vital component of understanding, the importance of character over credentials, and…

Breaking the Spell: My Moral Stand Against Manipulative Faith The content discusses the evolution of faith into manipulation, primarily within the ministry of the Maximovs. It highlights how sermons designed to evoke emotional responses often lead to psychological control, particularly harming marginalized groups like the LGBTQ+ community. The author advocates for truth as a path to genuine faith and personal freedom.

Breaking the Spell: My Moral Stand Against Manipulative Faith

The content discusses the evolution of faith into manipulation, primarily within the ministry of the Maximovs. It highlights how sermons designed to evoke emotional responses often lead to psychological control, particularly harming…

Goodbye 2025. Welcome 2026. As 2025 comes to a close, I’m not looking for dramatic conclusions. What I feel instead is something quieter and rare: completion. This year brought change at work, clarity through writing, closure through honoring my mother’s memory, and a deeper appreciation for family, growth, and humanity. I say goodbye to 2025 with gratitude and welcome 2026 with intention.

Goodbye 2025. Welcome 2026.

As 2025 comes to a close, I’m not looking for dramatic conclusions. What I feel instead is something quieter and rare: completion. This year brought change at work, clarity through writing, closure through honoring my mother’s memory, and a deeper appreciation for…

Edward Scissorhands: When Compassion Isn’t Enough On a quiet evening filled with orange and purple Halloween lights, a movie night with my son turned into something deeper. Edward Scissorhands revealed how fascination can slip into fear and how real compassion, like true faith, only survives when it chooses empathy over control, love over spectacle, and silence over noise.

Edward Scissorhands: When Compassion Isn’t Enough

On a quiet evening filled with orange and purple Halloween lights, a movie night with my son turned into something deeper. Edward Scissorhands revealed how fascination can slip into fear and how real compassion, like true faith, only survives when…

Equity or Elitism? When “Perfect Employees” Undermine Inclusive Communities The Myth of the Perfect Employee Equity is a word we often see at the top of mission statements in our school districts. It looks great in banners, policy drafts, and social media posts. But what happens when those same institutions quietly favor candidates who are flawless on paper, leaving out those with non-traditional paths, lived experience, or community roots? I know this well, both from my first 14 years at ESD 112 and in the years since, building communication strategies, publishing projects, and equity initiatives. This article isn’t just a critique.

Equity or Elitism? When “Perfect Employees” Undermine Inclusive Communities

The Myth of the Perfect Employee Equity is a word we often see at the top of mission statements in our school districts. It looks great in banners, policy drafts, and social media posts. But what happens when those same…

Strikes Close Schools but Do Not Put Students First Evergreen Public Schools is now entering the third week of a strike that has closed schools since August 26, 2025. Families are under pressure to manage disrupted schedules, students are missing va…

Our students deserve better than rhetoric. They deserve action.

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The XXI Century Brautiganism: A Visual Poetry This project explores how digital technologies can reinterpret 1960s poetry, specifically through “The 21st Century Brautiganism: A Visual Poem.” Premiering in 2010, it combines video i…

The XXI Century Brautiganism: A Visual Poetry –
This project explores how digital technologies can reinterpret 1960s poetry. The initiative promotes poetic exploration via multimedia and interactive storytelling.

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Embrace the Spectrum: Queer Awareness & Visibility

The Evergreen Public Schools campaign promotes diversity and inclusion, focusing on LGBTQ+ visibility and support since 2022. Engaging the community through events, education, and storytelling, it aims to normalize conversations around LGBTQ+…

Between Provocation and Projection: A Real Conversation with Rage This blog post reflects on an online exchange about LGBTQ+ issues, highlighting the escalation of misinformation and targeted fear from individuals like Vladimir. The author counters claims that LGBTQ+ visibility equates to predation and emphasizes the importance of acceptance, compassion, and truth. Ultimately, it advocates for dignity and resilience against hate.

Between Provocation and Projection: A Real Conversation with Rage

This blog post reflects on an online exchange about LGBTQ+ issues, highlighting the escalation of misinformation and targeted fear from individuals like Vladimir. The author counters claims that LGBTQ+ visibility equates to…

Between Worlds: Holding Legacy and Identity in the Same Hands Reconciliation is not about making everything fit. It’s about allowing everything to be—fully, honestly, and without shame.

Between Worlds: Holding Legacy and Identity in the Same Hands

Reconciliation is not about making everything fit. It’s about allowing everything to be—fully, honestly, and without shame.

Bridges Built Burned

Preface: Building from the First Bridge This essay builds upon the ideas introduced in my earlier post, Navigating Identity, Family, and Belonging: A Secular Perspective on Reconciliation with Evangelical Loved Ones. In that piece, I explored the emotional and communicative…

Classic Soviet-era cake recipes GOST standards Classic Soviet-era cake recipes made according to GOST Standards of the 1960s-1970s. These cakes were widely beloved during this time. Each recipe reflects the traditional preparation methods used ba...

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