Alina Cioaga

This is the first collaboration between two artists.

Young and talented, she is a Footwear Designer from Romania.

Sweet and funny, she and I have endless topics to chat about.

Her name is Alina Cioaga. 

 Negative of Peel Apart Film

 Negative of Peel Apart Film

Black Winter

The Black Witch arises in winter

Using Black Balloons as her potions

Giving them to the pretty girls in town

She will forever be the prettiest girl 

Black and White are my all time favourite colours. 

Matt once asked me what's my favourite colour? I answered black and white.

"It's monochrome, not colour." he said. 

He's right, and then I was thinking hard what's my colour beside black and white? I am still pondering...

Finally I bought myself some black balloons! Black balloons! Don't they look cool?!

Bringing black balloons back to the car with joy and singing "yayay yayay", I felt like I was the most annoying person but I don't care! I have black projects to do!

Black dresses are just lovely. They are the saviour for wardrobe malfunction - you will never go wrong.

I wander if there is anyone who doesn't have a black piece in her wardrobe?

On the contrary I never have a pink piece in my wardrobe.

Or is there anyone who wears only black in her whole life? Interesting person hey!

Black hair looks sexy, with red lips and a black dress (sounds like Amy Winehouse, but I prefer Kristen Stewart's style). 

I simply accept the fact that I am not born with an angelic face, so I need to be confident with my witchery look.

Oh and don't forget about the black nail polish! Mom used to complain about my all-black style, but then she dyed her hair back to black, put some black pieces on her and tried my black nail polish, she just looked so hot! Well done on the make over, mom.

Whenever I feel clueless in editing a photo, black and white will save my day, or the photo.

Simply convert a colour photo to black and white... Poff! I always fall into the "black" magic!

My Soul

What animal would you like to be?
A butterfly.Pretty.Attractive.Freedom.

Poor and happy, or rich and miserable?
Frankly, I choose to be poor and happy.
What is right or wrong?
Poor = wrong? Rich = right?
Live an ordinary life, graduated from university, find a common job with descent salary, buy a car, buy a house, get married, have children, have grandchildren, retired.. that's all.
Is that the best way of living our lives?
Oh why can't we choose the kind of life we want?
Sure we can! Be brave and strong enough to be different!
Quoted Oprah Winfrey :" YOU HAVE THE POWER!"
Yes we all have the power!

Doesn't matter if I can't do accounting like you do,
Doesn't matter if I can't afford branded goods like you do,
Doesn't matter if you think that I am a dreamer.
It just doesn't matter!
Cause you can't shoot pictures as good as I am,
Cause you can't paint as good as me!
Cause you don't dare to tell people about your dreams!
We are all different! What is wrong with dreams?
If you don't dream, you are dead.
Yes I have dreams, but at least I AM stepping towards my dream by showing you my artworks.
I am not the best, we are not the best.
I never dream of become the best, I just want to do the best with my talent.
Just be gladful there are various type of people in this world live harmonically together.
Or would you rather see only robots with black coat walking on the street?
I live with my dreams, because I know I am different.

Bad Hair Day...

Yes, I am having a bad hair day.

Yes, it makes me moody.

It’s a BAD BAD Hair Day…

Specially I am staying in Melbourne now.

The cold and dry weather makes my hair looks like dry grass...

Every morning when I wake up, the thing I hate the most is to fix my hair, imagine there are dog furs and wool stuck in my hair... Sometimes I felt so embarrassed for my boyfriend to watch me in the morning -- lion mane.

Well sure I deserve some critics because I am tight ass enough not to spend money on any good hair serum.

Whatever... This is who I am! This is an artist!

I will never spend so much money on make ups, never.

I am not your Puppet

Please don’t control me,

Please don’t tell me what to do,

Please don’t insult me,

Because I am not your puppet!

This shot was taken on March 2010 at 5am.

The setting was inspired by rosiehardy. 

It took me 3 hours to shoot myself because I had to set the self-timer, ran from the camera and posed, in 10 seconds.

Quite tiring, but it was an achievement -- my very first self portrait! I ended up having bruises all over my knees.
Then I spent 3 hours to edit the shot.

I was so depressed back in that few months-- jobless, hopeless, and sleepless.

Not knowing where to go,

not knowing how to love....


So I jumped out of bed from another sleepless night and start my own self portrait!