In these photo series we search for sacral, protected periods of childhood. It’s about the yearning for the great childhood dream that changes our lives at a later date.

Do you sometimes ask yourself what was important to you in your childhood? What has overwhelmed your heart at the time?

It may sound a bit pathetic, but it is true – true dreams eventually settle, because you can not flee forever from yourself. You can study for years, do a PhD, get further education, do successful, well-paid jobs that you enjoy. And yet at some point you hear that deep, soft, gentle voice inside of you: “Is that really you? You are more capable than what you are doing. Why do not you just trust it? “But when it comes to your unadulterated essence – then you’re just it, you have no choice, no matter what it was before. You do not have to prove it to anyone. Even the question „why that exactly“ is totally irrelevant.

In a nutshell: Once upon a time there was a shy, sensitive girl named Paulina. She painted for hours, days, night after night, on the kitchen table – colorful, geometric patterns, fantastic creations spilling out of her imagination. She was not alone – even her twin sister did the same and sat next door, also painting. Paulina wanted to differ as more as possible – shriller, fancier, crazier. The patterns merged into human bodies, the threshold between reality and fiction fused. From time to time the dad appeared, scolding the two girls because his handmade table suffered from their creativity. It was his unlived dream to be an artist himself, that made him pass out, angry. Paulina went on stubbornly anyway. The sister guessed after her, and took her as a example for the “courage to be yourself, trust and dare the impossible”.

Years of challenges of all kinds passed by – illnesses, flight, relocations, upheavals. Years of searching for existential security. Paulina often asked herself the question, especially if she was successful in something – “Is it worth the price? What if you really die soon, and you do not have time to live what you really are. But what are you really? No, you are not your twin sister.” The first step was to emancipate from her, the second was the abandonment of all grueling conditions, then came the risk of becoming entrepreneur. The fashion was always been somehow your thing. But also not really actually, at least not only. The detour through the historic vintage fashion…

And then the heart’s desire exploded – let your childhood rise again, by designing fabrics with your old patterns from over 20 years ago and creating your own haute couture cuts. Your hitherto deeply buried, repressed life dream. Although you have no time, no money, not the right education for it. Or perhaps exactly for that reason. Because, simply it’s you.

But still, the question arises: does a childhood dream, as valuable as it may have been, should your right self-determination? Aren’t exactly the unfulfilled dreams, the unresolved longings, what creates an insatiable zest for life? What is worth living for? We do not have to fulfill all dreams in this life … Because the very idea of putting everything into this life creates an unbelievable pressure! Sometimes it is enough to remember what we once were.

Konzept & Styling: Paulina Tsvetanova

Fotos: Antonio Castello 

Models: Jay Singleton & Angelika Plag

Assistent: Daniel Errey

Concept & Styling: Paulina Tsvetanova

Photos: Nora Dal Cero

Model: Vladimir Turanski

Make-Up: Sophie Peters

Concept & Styling: Paulina Tsvetanova

Photos: Antonio Castello

Models: Déborah-Loïs Séry, Bouya, Adriana Jacome

THE HEART OF BERLIN IS LOOKING FOR YOU! BECOME A PART OF THE SERENDIPITY STORE! 

After the successful start of our pop-up store in Bikini Berlin in September 2016, and our relocation to Mitte in our own gallery space last year, one thing became very clear to us: our Concept Gallery for art, fashion, and design needs a long-term partner, to share space, contacts, customers, know-how, etc.

Are you looking for a central, cozy, communicative White-Cube Space (storefront and gallery) with a lively work environment, where you can meet like-minded people and potential customers and partners? You were suddenly struck by a brilliant business idea and want to bring it into the world? Now is your chance! Network, grow, learn, and bring your talent into the world.

Our creative workshop-showroom-agency invites you to take part in the Paulina’s Friends world!

Looking for: creative, like-minded people who need a place to work, i.e. designers, gallerists, art dealers, journalists, curators, art historians, trend-setters, influencers, event managers, marketing experts, photographers, graphic designers, producers, programmers, architects, social media managers, etc.

Your Benefits:

• An approx. 52 qm space as atelier, art gallery, retail, co-working office, show room, event location, studio for photoshoots, workshops, yoga, pop-up café, and much more.

• Excellent location directly on Torstraße, in the heart of the Berlin gallery scene, just one minute from Hackeschen Markt, with a mix of hipster, art, fashion, and design lovers, and tourists. The culinary scene is also flourishing, bringing with it a young and international crowd. Torstraße is the ideal environment for sophisticated products and ideas to be presented. The most important in short:

• Ground floor, access from the street.

• Great public transportation options, parking directly in front of the door

• 24/7 access with a key

• Approx. 10qm storage room shared with us

• Mailing address and post box

• All of the accoutrements, several thousand euros invested, for example in custom-made copper shelves and clothes racks

• Special carbon-fiber floors

• Complete lighting system (neon and floor lamps)

• LED sign outside

• Sign for the street corner

• Tables, chairs, a bench

• Wi-Fi

• A landline number

• A printer/scanner/copier

• Eco-friendly electricity

• A large creative community. You will profit from our unique, popular events

• Coffee machine, tea kettle

• Glasses

• 20% off our products

• A permanent presence on our website (Partner, Team, profile under Art/Design/Fashion and personal interview in the online magazine)

• Advertisement of your products or projects on our newsletter (10.000 recipients across Europe in German and English) and social media

• Business support with recommendations, tips, brainstorming, the synergy effect: we can develop new ideas and products together. Creative storytelling, marketing, events, photoshoots, and publications!

• Distribution of your flyer or catalogue to every customer

Rent: 2.100 € / month (+ 19% VAT)

Those who want the space for two quarters of the year are strongly encouraged to apply. No binding contract (but 1 year minimum)

Your profile / label / products / projects should of course fit with our vision and mission. Please apply with important information about your project, and why you are interested, at hello@paulinasfriends.com !

The exhibition H E A L I N G (2.04-30.06) includes the HEALING festival: interactive workshops and courses on Bodywork, self-awareness, mindfulness, and work-life balance, here the topics:

H E A L I N G

Duration: April 2 – June 30, 2018 Location: Concept Gallery PAULINA’S FRIENDS, Gartenstr. 114, 10115 Berlin-Mitte Opening: Thursday, April 26., 7 pm Opening times: Monday – Saturday 12-7 pm Curator: Paulina Tsvetanova

Including 29 artists & designers awarded through a contest 

Adi Davidoff, Andreas Brunolupo, Beate Flierl, Britta Schwalm, Claudia Hartwig, Dagmar Gester, Donat Fritschy, Doreen Trittel, Dr. Klaus Chmillon, Elisabeth Schneller, Eva Lippert, Evelyne M. Fricker, Graf Seibert, Gret Beth, Hannes Albert, Julia Antonia, Jutta Imelda Kanneberger, Lucy Libre, Lukas & Robertson, Pasquale Aleardi, Peter Schlangenbader, Philippe Ségalard, Simone Birk, Tatawa (Wei Tan), Ulrike Hofmann-Schüll, Uwe Schwarz, Valentina Pisarra, w e i s s über den tod hinaus, Dr. Yoanna Planchette

Art exposes, shocks, transforms: fears, weaknesses, trauma. Inner conflicts, heart aches, losses. A re-flourishing, new beginning, healing. Our artists and designers tell stories of strength, hope, love, and redemption, that inspire the answers to life’s important questions.

The exhibit includes the HEALING Festival: interactive workshops and courses on Bodywork, self-awareness, mindfulness, and work-life balance. More information about all topics at: https://www.paulinasfriends.com/en/healing-festival/

Adi Davidoff 

Adi Davidoff (*1978) lives and works in Berlin. She completed her art education in Sofia, Paris, Berlin, and Seville. Her works are owned by: Museo del Baile Flamenco Christina Hoyos, Alliance Française Kasanlak, and the Bulgarian Embassy in Madrid. Between 2014 and 2015, she studied photography at the New School of Photography, Berlin.

o.T. 30×40, Colored Pencil and Oil Pastel, Edition: 1, 2017, 450 €

Andreas Brunolupo

BRUNOLUPO (*1961) is a sculptor and architect. He studied with Jürgen Weber, Peter Färber, Hinnerk Wehberg, Matthias Koeppel, Wolf Kahlen, and Ute Safrin, among others. After a pause in his career, he refocused on sculpture and art. He creates emotionally expressive ceramic sculptures. Every figure is unique in its own handwriting. His creations combine watercolor, photography, and work in cement, wood, and paint.

Beate Flierl 

Beate Flierl (*1959) was born in Berlin. She completed a weaving apprenticeship (1975-1977), studied applied art and textiles in Schneeberg (1977-80), and has been a self-employed textile artist since 1981. In 1990, she founded the association Offene Kunstwerkstatt e.V., where various artistic workshops are offered. She has taught textile art since 1990 and has worked on sociocultural projects since 1991. Since 1996, her work has been included in fashion shows and dance performances and since 2002 she has been learning shamanistic healing techniques for both the earth and for humans. Since 2005, she has been consciously combing art and healing, and in 2007, she began the center for nature- and healing projects, exhibits, and textile workshops opened in Warthe / Eckermark. Her work has been exhibited in and around Berlin, as well as in Munich, Moscow, Mexico, Tallin, including watercolor, batik, woven cloth, apparel, and tapestry. More information at: https://www.paulinasfriends.com/en/project/beate-flierl/

PACHA MAMA, handwoven tapestry, 30 000,- €

Britta Schwalm 

“Glückskind” (Child of Fortune) – this work consists of a ring, inside which lies a baby named Jamie. As long as one wears the ring on their finger, the baby is not visible. There is another baby on the outside surface of the ring, named Sam. But only the baby on the inside can do wonderful things. Jamie, as well as Sam, can be given as a birthday present. Jamie has comforting powers when a mother, father, or grandparent has lost a child, no matter how long ago the loss was. Time plays no roll in grief and death. Many families have said that the ring gives them power, courage and faith in their lives. But I am not the only artist involved in the process of creation, as Jamie is made as per the ring owners request. The ability to shape the ring is a significant moment in the healing process. A stone, date, asterisk, or angel wings may also be engraved. Every ring is an individual work of art, and the ability to shape the ring allows parents momentary power to bring their child back. They can feel their child again at any time.

Many healing rings have arisen out of this collaboration. Sometimes the bereaved is so open and brave as to allow me to publish their letters, or leave comments on the homepage. I also have so many photos of gravestones and letters filled with words of thanks, that are not suitable to publish, to protect the privacy of the bereaved.

Claudia Hartwig

“When distance digs a trench, we live with cracks. In the course of time, hope is the driving force to reunite the separated. I was born in Germany, with a protective wall and a barbed wire fence. My parents were expelled when I was seventeen. The loss was overpowering, and put me in a state of limbo. The search for identity runs like a red thread through my artwork, revealing itself in sculptures and objects, originally made of jute, linen and wire. The process of concealing and rendering visible is important in my work, an interplay that creates tensions in my sculptures. I am concerned with an energy that can combine opposites. I transfer my energy to my objects like a Shaman. Development, growth, and maturity are important in my paper-clay work. The sculptures are new expectations of hidden forces.” –  Claudia Hartwig.

Reifezeit I (Adolescence), paper yarn, 130 x 50 x 30 cm, 2017, 2600 €

Dagmar Gester

Dagmar Gester focuses on the search for home –probably the most important search of our lives. Her serial image-text works create space that welcome us into this theme, as she brings us closer to the inexpressible, the unimaginable, and the invisible. Her art is both skilled and aesthetically pleasing.

From the series “Was bleibt. Fluchtgepäck” (What Remains. Flight Luggage), 5th edition (2 artist proofs and 3 for sale), graduated prices: #1/5 €833, #2/5 €1,071, #3/5 €1,309. To be purchased in groups of at least two.

Donat Fritschy

Donat Fritschy prefers to work with stone and wood. His sculptures develop intuitively, often with organic forms that invite the touch. The hardness of materials contrasts with the feeling of its polished surface – hard becomes soft. Larger work involves a concept and structured execution, but in the background lies an important transition – a stele whose surface gradually changes, or a smooth granite roll. Other works touch on pain, wounds, and their healing.

Donat Fritschy, computer scientist and freelance sculptor, born 1956. Lives and works in Bern (Switzerland).

Der Schrei (The Cry), 2009, Cristallina marble, 15 x 50 x 36 cm, 950 €

Doreen Trittel – HEHOCRA

Doreen Trittel: Doreen Trittel: “Art is for me a chance for change and personal growth. It is for me a way through the maze of life, at whose entrance stands anxiety. I always wanted to ask questions that I didn’t know existed. I always push boundaries. I want to spark change, as change begins with us. In collage, installation, and photography, I grapple with my memories. I observe and reflect objects, place them in new contexts and transform them. I am fascinated with the transformation process of the past, present, and future. A focus of my work lies in my east German migrant background, and my experience as stasikind. I was born in 1973 in East Germany.

Dr. Klaus Chmillon

The sudden end of a promising career, falling into an abyss of permanent pain, life-threatening operations, because of an illness without a cure.

“Most of my work is mounted on small tables (mesas). The objects include various light mechanisms. I mainly use brushed stainless steel and precious African bronze figures made with the lost wax process. They come from Mali (Dogon), and are very rare antiques (Sahel war zone). I use elegant modern figures of Ouagadougou from Burkina Faso. My design goal is always the creation of a strong emotional response.”

Elisabeth Schneller

“In a time with painful questions of open relationships and subsequent separations, I feel that my injuries and sadness are incorporated into clay. Female torsos reflect my emotions. In the time of #MeToo, the torsos are explosively timely, as questions of womanhood, vulnerability, boundaries, powerlessness, anger, grief, and self-esteem are discussed worldwide. A single torso says more than a thousand words.” –  Elisabeth Schneller

Torso “Beengt” (Constricted Torso), 2015, 41 x 24 x 19 cm, black clay with rusty chain, 750 €

Eva Lippert

“My work wants to tell stories. It is inspired by personal experience, dreams, travels in foreign cultures, and from nature, sometimes current events. The ideas are combined through different techniques, such as weaving, embroidery, knitting, collages, printing, painting, and the incorporation of found objects, and help me process impressions.” – Eva Lippert.

Metamorphose (Metamorphosis), woodcut on Japanese paper, netting, textile collage and Birchwood frame, 72/79 cm, 1.200 €

“The person embedded in the tree root can be understood in different ways. Perhaps he died, and from him something new will develop. Perhaps a new phase of life begins for him. He is not alone, but rather is watched by a mermaid and diver. It was important to me to capture the mood of dreams in which our subconscious shows us the way.”

Evelyne M. Fricker

Graf Seibert

Depressed Lamp, concrete, steel, electrics, 250 x 60 x 160 cm, photo: Bartosz Plodovski, 3.800 €

PSYCHO FURNITURE

Despite living in one of the wealthiest and most stable countries in the world, recent studies show a staggering increase of 76% in the diagnosis of mental illnesses over the last 10 years. Almost 40% of high school students in the USA are on Retalin prescritions. More and more members of our performance-oriented society have a difficult time coping with the pressures of having to keep up. In many places mental disorders are still considered a topic that is taboo. Having a mental disorder is viewed with the same stigma as a facial tattoo. More than a few people visibly display their pain through self-inflicted injury. Even though the wounds may heal, the scars remain. These pains are not unfamiliar to both Patricia Yasmine Graf and Fabian Seibert, as you can imagine. Imagine walking across the world’s biggest furniture fair: tons of design pieces in endless variations totally overwhelm you. Smartness and prettiness. What would happen if Graf Seibert’s furniture pieces could not withstand the pressure and develop mental problems of their own? Does a depressive lamp give light or does it symbolise the dark side of our meritocratic society? Is an anorexic bed still of some practical use?

Gret Beth

re:form I + II, Email auf Stahl, Graphit, 25 x 25 cm

Hannes Albert

KRAFT, 85 x 55 x 55 cm, 2015, oak wood, 3200 €

Simone Birk

Simone Birk: “In my painterly creations, I hope to reflect emotions back to the viewer. I use various techniques and materials such as clay, wood, and stone. For a few years I have also been devoted to painting.”

Frühling, acrylic on paper, 2018, 40cm / 50 cm, 480 €

Julia Antonia

Julia Antonia: “During a meeting with a shamanic therapist, I imagined that strong internal spaces such as the ones here, which I sketched right after therapy. This is a concrete inner space of healing for a close friend. The picture is not yet finished…”

vindeca sunete (healing sounds in Romanian), 2018, 100 x 100 cm, framed in shadow gap, nettle, from the series “Therapy” 2,800 €

Jutta Imelda Kanneberger

“I had four miscarriages, and displaced the pain. In March 2006, I was diagnosed with breast cancer in the left middle of my chest. After the initial operation, results showed that I had to have an additional operation. I opted for the radical surgery without reconstruction, for survival. I am an Amazon. During Chemo, there was a mistake with one of four intravenous needles, placed in the right crook of my arm that destroyed the tissue. I could have taken the doctors to court for negligence, but I had no strength. In 2006, my life changed forever. I found my new mantra: What stays? Forever! I approach philosophical questions photo series and spatial productions. I stopped working as a stage and costume designer.” so Jutta Imelda Kanneberger.

Selbstportrait (self portrait), three part watercolor series, 2006, ca. 17 x 24 cm, 450 €

Lucy Libre 

Total Eclipse of the Heart, pendant series, “Milagritos” (small wonder), leather

A large pendant in bright colors that protects your own heart underneath from anxiety, lovesickness, and fear. One is reminded again and again of his requests by the pendant due to the size and conspicuousness of the jewelry.

Lukas & Robertson

Beast & Beauty otoman, L 200 cm x B 80 cm x H 50 cm x G 60 kg | hand-carved hoofs and horns in walnut tree | leather and fur | petticoat Élitis, 8500 €

The work is using its aethetics and spirit of the Beauty&Beast story to calm one´s soul and heal his body. Equipped with horns for sophisticated relaxing.

More about Lukas & Robertson here.

Pasquale Aleardi

Sturmtief Burglind (Low Pressure Front Burglind), Photograph, 65 x 53 cm, oak frame, 44,5 x 31,7 cm photograph, 620 €

When I feel gloomy inwardly while it is gloomy outside, I capture the moment: figuratively, in writing, or in music. In this case, I was on my way to Berlin on the ICE and felt upset because I got sick, and was unsure about my upcoming concerts. The view of the storm “Burglind” gave me the rest. But whenever I feel down, I decide not to let myself stay down. These captured moments remind me to be courageous! I remind myself that every crisis, as well as every storm, passes and can be overcome!” Pasquale Aleardi

Tatawa (Wei Tan)

Tatawa (Wei Tan): “My interpretation of “HEALING” is to heal through the act of purging. Each of my abstract paintings is a journal entry and a self-revelation through improvisation. Like making soup, materials are thrown onto the canvas and mixed together through spontaneous gesture. Often a period of mindless doodling is carried out before the painting settles down with an unexpected coherence. The process of improvisation and automatic drawing allow thoughts from the subconscious to emerge. The paintings exist in a space between the real and the abstract, where real-life objects float in a sea of abstract colours and forms. The everyday objects in the paintings – such as cups, boxes, windows and ladders – represent the meaningless clutter in the mind. By releasing these objects onto the canvas the mind is cleared and cleansed.” The Storeroom Had a Stomach Flu, Mixed Media on Canvas, 100 x 120 cm, 2350 €

PHILIPPE SÉGALARD

Philippe Ségalard: This is healing time. Spring. Japanese’s spring because of space, the way space is represented. Happy energy of spring, as now the very long winter, which didn’t want to finish, has ended. It is not only the winter of time, every years winter, but of course a glimpse to the winter of Richard III: Now is the winter of our discontent…And so, now this winter of our discontent is over. The field can wear the proud and powerful colors of Spring. And the strange shadow of a bridge…The white figure, mysterious just in front of the painting that probably comes from that winter. And underneath, just a calm music player. This is the kind of healing this work proposes.

Peter Schlangenbader

“The painted flat screen with the motive “reigen” (‘circle dance’, after Arthur Schnitzler’s novel) shows the present and future dance of our desires, obsessions, and fetishes, which keep us from clear knowledge. The changing love carousel of a futuristic society. Future is now!”  Peter Schlangenbader

Reigen (Circle Dance), acrylic/flat screen, 150 x 176 x 55 cm, 7,500 €

Uwe Schwarz

Uwe Schwarz uses experiments of various pictorial possibilities to express his critique of civilization. With his metaphorically symbolist, sarcastic, subtle works, he turns against human self-overestimation, emotional numbness and the obnoxious indifference which goes hand in hand with selfishness and bears destructive traits. He gladly reaches into the treasure chest of the cultural history of humanity to keep the observer’s eyes on the mirror, over and over again.” – Karin Weber

Fortuna, Bronze figure with painted acrylic disk, height 32 cm, 600 €

Ulrike Hofmann-Schüll

Ulrike Hofmann-Schüll

All jewely by Ulrike Hofmann-Schüll are unique pieces made of silver, gold, brass, copper, or iron and are often combined with gemstones. Trained in artisanal metalworking and forming techniques, she has the capability to carry out her many ideas. A few years ago, she began creating entirely new, exciting forms of jewelry: large, light, asymmetrical shapes incorporating luminous faceted stones. Hofmann-Schüll’s creative power became even more intuitive, dynamic, and far-reaching. She has written a book about this journey, entitled “Up to the stars and back: About the creative process.”

Sternenbahnen (Star Tracks), necklace, unique, 2012, Height 35 x width 29 x depth 1.5 cm, weight 170 grams, 925/000 Silver with natural oxide. Stone: Zirkonia pink

Dr. Yoanna Planchette

La lutte éternelle entre le matériel et le spirituel, entre le corps et l’esprit… lorsque l’âme aspire à s’évader dans une autre réalité, plus pure, plus parfaite que l’image du fantôme qui la retient sur terre. Un réel combat entre la vie et la mort, lorsque l’art demeure le seul moyen de s’enfuir, un remède miracle, plus puissant pour affronter et plus durable pour échapper au péril…

The eternal fight between matter and spirit, between body and soul… Sometimes the soul longs for another reality, purer and more perfect than the image of the phantom that has arrested her on earth. A real fight between life and death. Sometimes art is the only permanent means of escape.

Anatomie des Geistes (Anatomy of the Soul), H 29.5 cm x B 21 cm, Acrylic paint, collage, felt-tipped pen, framed

Valentina Pisarra 

w e i s s über den tod hinaus

Our last moments do not have to be arbitrary, but can be designed consciously. In addition to death, coffins, urns, and mourning jewelry designed and crafted by the artists, artistically designed and crafted, w e i s s über den tod hinaus offers insightful and artistically competent advice on all farewell art topics.

Es gibt auch ein Leben vor dem Tod (There is also a life before death) interview with Lydia Gastroph, founder of w e i s s über den tod hinaus.

Crazy Colour Cafe´

The Berliner Biscuit Queen invites you to the Workshop-Cafe´Crazy Colour.
Every SUNDAY, 12-19 h in an inspiring, artful, comfortable & communicative mood.

You get sick of your four walls?
Then come to our Crazy Colour Cafe´!

Be creative, meet others, clap and chat.

The artist Heike Jederlein, alias the Berlin Buiscuit Queen, comes originally from the far north. There, where the tradition of „Klönschnacks“ is good form and maintained with relish. Having a “Klönschnack” people gossip, drink and done manual labor, such as crochet and knit.

Now, the Biscuit Queen wants to continue this tradition in the

ART BISCUITS
Crazy Colour Cafe´
The Bisquit Queen is host and inspirer for your unique biscuits made of
salt dough (such as brooches, pendants) and edible dough that you can create in the cafe. We will „keksen“ (means: biscuits and gossip in one) and drink coffee in a homely atmosphere.

Take a look inside the Crazy Colour Cafe´ and become a part
of the enjoyable art happenings at Paulina‘s Friends!

Here some more input: www.kunstkekse.de

This poetic photo series is a hommage of timeless beauty.

bomber jacket “wild tiger”, water proof, quilted, digital print, unique piece, unisex, 280 €; t-Shirt by PF (original drawings in digital print), 45 € (sold); silk scarf by cedostopía, 180 €; turban by BABADO, 20 €; in the background light art object “Cehris” by Herbert Stecher / ART LUMINARI, 2.250 €

photos: Nora dal Cero

concept & styling: Paulina Tsvetanova

model: Anna von Rüden

makeup & hair: Benedikta Ársælsdóttir

Our favorite photographer from Switzerland Nora Dal Cero captured Anna von Rüden in enchanting pictures with the fashion of PAULINA’S FRIENDS and accessories by designers of the Concept Gallery as part of the light art exhibition of ART LUMINARI. As always, high quality, perfectly crafted art and design objects by creatives from our program.

The transience of nature is the most natural process in the universe par excellence. Aging is part of life. We are permanently confronted with the topic of aging – some of us feel a panic, steer towards an identity crisis and, for fear of aging, even have to run to a psychotherapist. A self imposed punishment for being mortal. Nodody looking forward to getting older – why? While we age, we get reminded of our transience and mortality, of the uncontrollability of natural processes – an eerie notion we are reluctant to confront.

It is a matter of course that the value of valuable, expensive items such as a vintage piece of furniture, a vintage car, a historic real estate building or an artwork from an auction house by a well-known artist rise with age.

Whereas in the media unlimited youthfulness and perfection are propagated. We always want to suggest that our value as humans and our attractiveness will shrink over time if we don’t buy expensive natural cosmetics or inject ourselves with botox. Ultimately, we should stay young and desirable forever.

Actually, it’s just the opposite. The older we get – the more attractive! Our wrinkles tell unmistakable, unique stories of feelings, passion, paths and detours, challenges, lessons, surrendipity … A soulful personality, who has experienced a lot, carries a sparkling spirit that never settles down. Always young and dynamic.

Only in old age do we have the luxury of being able to perceive things without having to control them. In this sense, aging is also a liberation: from claims that people place on themselves and on others. Life in old age can offer more opportunities and unexpected, exciting challenges than at a young age. Time opens up completely new, unimaginable dimensions, one experiences life as a constant adventure.

Personal maturity and self-love is what grows and grows over time as we age. What makes us humans timeless? Isn’t the unmistakable inner beauty and the authenticity of our character that what us timeless makes?

What is done, worn, collected with love, remains timelessly beautiful. Love makes things and people timeless. Love, eat, drink and wear your clothes with love.

PAULINA’S FRIENDS stands for timeless beauty beyond all common definitions, clichés & all short-lived trends.