We're happy to present you the new T-Shirts with kuzhebarian shamanic motif. On these T-Shirts you can see the arch-father and creator of Ancient Kuzhebar Yagdyn Staroy. According to ancient kuzhebarian tales he has four faces looking to the four winds. Each face is blown by the special wind, his "caboo" are fluttering inthese winds. "Caboo" are special unaccountable outgrowths on Yagdyns' faces.
Yagdyn being exists in a turquoise-blue quasiwater ambience. His usual attribute is a big crystal-clearfancifully formed seashell, he lets it sound with the help of his caboo.
Please note that by buying these T-Shirts you're supporting not only the artists, but also the vanishing siberian culture that we're trying to keep, to develop and to spread!
You can click on pictures to buy T-Shirts. For men:
KUAAMU Kuzhebar Synergies, first models
Current mood: enlightened
Category: Art and Photography
You will find below the pictures of our first models, we hope you' ll like them! All your comments are welcome!
The ancient kuzhebarian symbol used in this ring depicts one of the three mystical birds of Ancient Kuzhebar. To learn more about these birds, visit this link: http://pyrography-design.com/YuliaSurbaDesign0Eng.htm. This bird is playing here with the life of the human it visits (the ball).
An unique pendant! Its length goes from 6" to 16" (15 to 40 cm) and the pendant is 4" long (10 cm). It is actually a kind of a ghost keeper. Of course only for eatable ghosts! That thing is that in Ancient Kuzhebar people didn't separated ghosts in good and bad ones, but in eatable and not eatable. Kuzhebar people believed, when you eat a ghost you create a symbiosis with it. Through this symbiosis the human beeing and the ghost goes their evolution ways and support each other. More than that there were special musical rituals for eating ghosts by using a special wind musical instrument called "ghost catcher". You can see the video with similar kind of the ghost catcher here (reconstructed, developed and played by Nadishana)
This pendant is made from natural seeds and with an ancient kuzhebarian symbol. The symbol depicts the world picture with upper, middle and underworld and with the life tree, which grows trough all of them.
The symbol of this pendant depicts a balance of fourth elements: earth, water, air and fire.
The big ornament used for this pendant depicts three deathless creatures by creating a new world or reality. It's 6" to 16" long and the pendant measures 2.8" to 4" (7 to 10 cm)
The symbol on this bracelet depicts the face of a deathless creature or godness who takes care about creativity and creative people. Another necklace with the symbol of life-embryo on it, a symbol for birth and rebirth. And another bracelet with another mystical bird of Ancient Kuzhebar on it ;)
And finally, the pendant with the symbol of a time traveller on it. We will add further informations soon!
KUAAMU Kuzhebar Synergies
Current mood: exotic
Category: Art and Photography
The project KUAAMU - Kuzhebar Synergies is based on the collaborative work of Eliza Gapenne (Eliz'art, France - http://www.elizart.fr) and Julia Surba (Kuzhebar Design( Siberia - http://pyrography-design.com).
Eliz'art discovered polymer clay in 2006 and since then, her passion for this material and its unlimited creative possibilities grows every day. She has a special way to use it, mixing it to natural materials and seeds, but also pigments, species... so that she manages to obtain a natural effect to her creations and give them an ethnic style. Since she met polymer clay, her life took a new direction. She quit her job to dedicate to her passion and creation. Every pieces she makes is completely hand-made and she puts all her energy and sensibility in each of them. Her love of the Nature, her first source of inspiration, influence her work and can be seen in all her creations.
"Through my jewels, I try to reconcile each other with the Nature and make people feel "light" and happy. They are like my attempt to rebuild the link that unifies us Nature, all the more that our speed way of life in modern societies is destroying it more and more day after day... It's like something we couldn't live without but that we don't realize because we don't have time to even think about it! Using seeds, old branches, leaves, sand... in other words, every little treasures we can find if we see things with a creative look, we can make very nice things and give to those elements a "new" life... We just have to free our imagination, put aside standard rules, take time to live fully, be sensitive to our environment and also curious of every thing to make experimentations and then discover new creative fields..."
Julia Surba is a siberian artist, whose favourite expression art became pyrography*. Inspired by art of ancient world cultures, Julia has developed her own "background" pyrography technique by which carving in combination with burned pictures build expressive relief patterns in Tribal Art style.
Last time Julia scrutinizes the almost forgotten small culture of Ancient Kuzhebar (Siberia), that is why her objects often represent the unique world-picture of aboriginal inhabitants of this culture. She tries to keep its knowledge, live and develop it.
Julia Surba is a member of the International Association of Pyrographic Artists (IAPA). In 2005 she established the "Kuzhebar-Design" studio, which is specialized in pyrography-design, design for music instruments, developing of logos and CD-covers, fashion and amulets.
*Pyrography or art of fire (from Greek pyros = fire) or Wood Burning Art is the art of burning an image onto a surface: wood or leather. It was popular in many ancient cultures of Australia, Afrika, Amerika and in Ancient Kuzhebar .
About Julia Surba: "i love you artwork! i think it was the innovation of alot of todays modern art with the spirit and earthy feeling of old. thank you for your beautiful art it brings out true emotions... good luck in the future peace and thanks, Thomas Dirk"
"What I thought when I saw your work was that it was original. I can see an influence of Mayan, African, and Tribal......but, really it is your own twist. I think you started a new category of your own and one day students like me will be studying your style". Archeologist April, USA
The idea of the project of Eliza and Julia KUAAMU - Kuzhebar Synergies is to bring together ancient signs, natural elements and modern materials like an example of the way, how the ancient and modern forms can be kept balanced, complete and support each other instead of destroying each other.
We see that nowadays, people often feel disconnected from the Nature and their roots. Too much new information comes each day, too many things they have to manage at the same time, no time for rest, no time to stop and look around, no time to see the beauty of the Nature, no time to think about the life they live, no time to enjoy it...
In ancient times, life looked different. Not so comfortable on one hand, but closer to the Nature and in harmony with the body and the mind on other hand. Ancient people knew how to speak with flowers and the wind, they understood how to respect the elements and they could "read" natural signs around them.
Today, new technologies come into our life, changing it completely, putting us on the big distance from each other and from ancient natural life style. All that push us to create the project KUAAMU - Kuzhebar Synergies, which is our try to create a bridge between past and future, natural life style and high speed life in urban cities.
Each object we make has a message, because the ancient kuzhebarian symbols are involved into them, what let them be called "Kuaamu". Kuaamu are actually a special kind of save objects which were used in the culture of Ancient Kuzhebar (South Siberia). At first sight, they can seem like jewellery but they are not. There was no idea in Ancient Kuzhebar to beautiful oneself because people thought they were primordial beautiful. By the way, they were very practical and it would be a nonsense for them to have some baubles on without any magic intention!
We also use in our works natural elements, such as seeds, wood, pigments etc. which are combined with polymer clay, material that allows to create almost everything we want (there's no limit to imagination with this material, except those we impose to ourself).
We put all our passion and love into each piece we create together. Each Kuaamu is unique and has its own purpose. We hope you'll enjoy the results of our collaboration and Kuaamu will bring more joy and harmony in you life, just stop, look at them and read the message they have.
To see our first creations please go to my album KUAAMU Kuzhebar Synergies
The old small charming village Boltana placed high in Pyrenees gave kind welcome for music instruments builders, musicians and guests from different countries. They all came because of Pirenostrum, the festival of music instruments.
Here everybody knows each other and the old stoned houses called ???casa??? always have their own names. For our exhibition stand we got place in the beautiful casa Coronel.
Each day was full of program and a lot of visitors came to see and to try bagpipes from differents parts of Spain, hurdy gurdy, flutes, drums etc. etc. etc??? The old casa Coronel was full with people too. They were interested in our instruments: jews harps, futuristic fujaras, futujaras
and bagpipes as also nice small flutes from Mallorca called Xirimjeta made by our friend Junajo: a talented painter, ceramist, biologist and bagpipe builder in one! With him we were happy to travel and have the stand together.
during smal breaks Julia was decorating the bagpipe made by Junajo and Nadishana was playing Futuristic Fujara, so no time was lost there:)!
During the festival there were two good surprises, which were very special for us. The first was a meeting with an innovator in bagpipe building ??? Francisco Calvo Regueiro, very nice person. His gaitas can be easily played for about half an hour without hard blowing into the bag!!! Sounds like a dream for a bagpipe player, wright?! And Francisco was very interested in futurustuc fujara. Of course in this situation the exchange of instruments was the best solution for both: Nadishana and Francisco:)
The second thing was a meeting with a boy from the village who had seen the concert of Vladiswar Nadishana at the Conspiremus-festival two years ago and was infected by the wish to learn to play jews harp. We remembered him well, because he came after the concert to the stage to see the jews harp from a close distance, and Nadishana was showing him how it works. Now he came especially to get his first jews harp from Nadishana and was very happy after he hold his own one in the hand. We hope to see him next time playing!
Design for Futuristic Fujara
Current mood: creative
Category: Art and Photography
The idea of Paul Marshall about making slovak traditional overtone flute called FUJARA out of PVC is not lost. More than that Nadishana encouraged Max Brumberg, experienced fujara maker to build one, which became the name Futuristic Fujara. They both put new ideas to the construction, so this new beautiful sounding music instrument which actually combines 3 instruments in one has influenced Kuzhebar Design to develop special designs for it.
The results are here to see. Two Futuristic Fujara designs in brown: opaque and glossy, one in balck and one in bronze.
To buy Futuristic Fujara and to watch instructinal and demonstration video please gohere.
New designs of Futiristic Fujara are coming soon!!!
Shaman tunable Frame Drum with henna design
Current mood: adventurous
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Shaman tunable Frame Drum made from deer skin with henna design in traditional kuzhebarian style.
This drum is made by David Roman Drums and has a revolutionary tuning system, you can tune it with bicycle pump in seconds to any pitch! See video for details.
Frontal world plane or kuzhebarian mandala
Current mood: artistic
Category: Art and Photography
One of the forms of the world picture engraving in Ancient Kuzhebar. The solar symbol in the centre depicts the arch-father of Ancient Kuzhebar - Yagdyn.
The inner circle build Dethless Creatures, who bring into the world different kinds of beings, which symbols you can see on the external circle. On the frontal world plane it is easily to recognise axles, which present the vision of an always growing and renewing world.
All over the world exist old legends, tales and rituals connected with eggs. They are known like symbols of life and rebith. Also in a mokshan culture exist an interesting tale connected with an egg.
Mokshan people say that deep in the forest grows an ancient oak with a magic egg inside, the egg of Kui - Gorozh. Kui - Gorozh is a magic creature, a mixture of a snake and an owl, who can realise all wishes of his owner. To become an owner of Kui - Gorozh one should find the Kui - Gorozh’ egg and brood it up.
Inspired by this tale I created some Kui - Gorozh’ eggs (of course with the help of Kuzhebarian Gods!!!).
Who know’s may be someone of you will be lucky to brood it out? Do you want to try?
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