The Secret Garden
Photo: Bella Volen
Body painting: Bella Volen
Model: Petya
Sofia, Bulgaria 2010
R.I.P my little kitten
The Old House
Photo: Bella Volen
Body painting: Bella Volen
Model: Sandra
Kovachevitza, Bulgaria 2010
The Piano
Photo: Bella Volen
Body painting: Bella Volen
Model: Teodora
Sofia, Bulgaria 2010
The Studio
Photo: Bella Volen
Body painting: Bella Volen
Models: Deni & Lucy, the sculptor is my grandmother Maria Nojarova
Sofia, the studio of my grandmother, Bulgaria 2010
5 O'Clock
Photo: Rumyana Chapanova
Model: Sava Chapanov
Sofia /Bulgaria 2008
The Sleeping Poet
Photo: Bella Volen
Model: Ivailo Dimitrov
Sofia /Bulgaria 2008
The Nostalgia Store
Photo: Kosio Kosev
Models: Ivailo Dimitrov & Lazarina Kotkova
Sofia/Bulgaria 2008
The Nostalgia Store
Dusty shelves covered with old hats
dusty cups, autumn leaves
and letters, yellowish from waiting-
talismans against griefs.
Dusk and sand from dried up seas
herbarium of memories, among them
a clover withering.
Here you can buy a past-
an accidental photo from forgotten flash
sunset colour, seashell sound
two-three words-voice coming from a phone
two-three words with metal taste against oblivion
a wet silhouette seen afar.
Snowballs thrown long since.
Prolonged rainfalls, presentiment of heavy wind.
In this shop for anything and everything
it is quiet. The clock has stopped??
But you hear a voice. And see a mirror.
-The currency is future. With preliminary fee.
The salesman in this case is me.
by Volen Nikolaev ( my father)
Religion
Photo: Bella Volen
Body painting: Bella Volen
Model: Karala
Las Vegas, USA 2010
Award at the Nord American Body Painting Festival
Nature from the Present
Photo: Bella Volen
Body painting: Bella Volen
Model: Leticia
Stockholm, Seeden 2008
1st prize award at the MIST Stockholm Body Painting Festival
Nature from the Past
Photo: Bella Volen
Body painting: Bella Volen
Model: Leticia
Stockholm, Sweden 2008
1st prize award at the MIST Stockholm Body Painting Festival
An Old Story
Photo: Kosio Kosev
Models: Elitza Tzaneva & Petya Dineva
Bulgaria 2008
