Today I just want to introduce you to some great people! For my second visit to NY around 9 years ago I decided to try to use a platform called Couchsurfing. My very first host was Debbie Davies, a Trinidadian-American artist, activist, galleries, and finance entrepreneur. I arrived late at night to New York from Ukraine and got to her apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn around 11 pm. First thing, she gave me a key from her apartment, the couch was prepared for me to sleep with fresh shits and towels and she left for her bedroom to rest. That evening she opened her door and at the same time her beautiful heart to me, a total stranger from Eastern Europe.
After that time, we became good friends, we traveled together to Iceland and Debbie visited Ukraine with her social art international The I Love You Project. She helped me to be where I am now, and I will be forever grateful.
When I got some art projects and decided to stay in the USA 2 years later and started to work on my papers, I didn’t realize how long it takes and how expansive it is. I was really straggling to pay for the lawyers, and I was asking everyone I know to borrow the money, she first helped me with no questions asked.
Debbie is a truly amazing beautiful person, extremely smart, intelligent, and talented. The mission of her LiTE-HAUS Galerie + Projektraum is to encourage cross-cultural communication by connecting people through art. And she does.
I know Philip for about 10 years, and Brandon for about a year. Those guys became really close friends of mine and my boyfriend Josh. We have a tradition to hang out together on the weekend, have dinner together, and watch movies. They both are tremendously supportive, kind, honest, positive. We both with my boyfriend love to spend time with them.
Philip is an editor, a model, and a certified personal trainer and Brandon is an internet celebrity, radio show host known for his website LoveBScott.com , which I highly recommending to follow and read.
As an introvert, I have not as happy to be around people, but with Philip and Brandon I feel like home, no judgment, I don't have to think what to say, no fake positivity, they just accepting me 2ho I am. I'm honestly can't wait when we will hang out next time.
Kim Kyne, an angel from Uber, that what I added to her name in my phone contact book. I meet Kim almost 2 years ago when I just moved to California, and as you probably got already, when we both shared the same Uber. She was on her way home after Halloween party wearing a white angel costume and I felt this really good energy. She was asking me questions and she was looking at me, not every stranger that asking, how are you, are really want to know the answer. So I offer to her to exchange contact information and we became friends. She is kind and understanding, spiritual, and creative. We haven't talked after I mover to another part of the town for a while, but then we again end up sharing the same Uber and I think we just meant to be friends:)
Kim Kyne is an LA-based artist and designer who seeks to evoke strong emotions and make POC feel seen, important, and beautiful. When she's not investigating the inner workings of her spiritual practice, she can be found sketching away feverishly (VoyageLA)
Larissa Andrea Johnson that moved from Johannesburg, the most beautiful soul I ever met. She is a musician and documentarist, very passionate about her creation and culture. I met Larissa in New York back in 2015, she was a participant of Yphil Int Philharmonic (One hundred young musicians from 74 countries that participated in the Concert for Global Peace at Carnegie Hall, performing works that represent their diverse nationalities and cultures) and I was there an in-house photographer. We stayed in touch during those years and I am always incredibly happy to see her when she is in Town. I feel like I want to smile all the time when I am with her, such beautiful energy.
Patrick Clopon - a musician from London. Patric playing piano on the streets of the cities, he likes to travel and play for people. I met Patric on a train in New York, and we exchanged contact to keep in touch. Patric then helped me a lot with contributors in London for my fashion shoots after we have just spoken one time on the subway. I'm glad that we still keep in touch and meet for coffee when he is around, traveling to play on the streets of the cities to give people smiles and a great mood.
I am tremendously grateful to have those people in my life and I will continue to introduce my friends to the public. They are all great talented artist, musicians, people, that deserve your attention!