I lived in two parts of the World, in Europe and Americas, through two centuries and millennia. This is my past, and the last years are here: My Recent Life.

My Space and Past Time

Space-time continuum, or Minkowski space, is a mathematical model that joins space and time into one.

• The observed rate at which time passes depends on an object's velocity relative to the observer.
• The strength of gravitational fields slows the passage of time for an object as seen by an outside observer.

Areas

I lived on three continents.

Americas

North and South America in the Western Hemisphere of the Earth, the two continents, so-called New World, which I first visited at 10.

I lived in both Latin and Northern Americas, including three USA states, drove twice from coast to coast, and a few times along the Pacific Coast. This continent is more beautiful than I had expected, but the West Coast feels closer to my heart.

California, US - feels like home to me. I lived a little while in the North, but mostly in Southern California, South to Los Angeles, in San Diego and Orange Counties.

In San Diego County I lived in La Jolla, South Park (close to Balboa Park and downtown), North Park (to the South of University street) and in Oceanside, North County.

I moved to California to exercise outside on most days, to swim in the ocean, and to hopefully find more people who value ethical lifestyles. This is the only place I have ever chosen to live not out of circumstances, chance, or need. My biggest issues here are the price of water, real estate, and high taxes. What I love the most is the friendliness of people, like almost anywhere along the Pacific Coast, the vast variety of personalities one can meet, and the clarity of sunlight.

Europa

I lived both in Western and Eastern Europe: born in the East near the Black Sea, and moved to the West, primarily Germany and Luxembourg. And then even further west.

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern and mostly the Eastern Hemispheres. Europe has fifty sovereign states with a total population of over 740 million. European culture is the root of so-called Western civilization: ancient philosophy, Renaissance humanism, exploration and colonization, revolutions and wars, Enlightenment and industrialization, art and science, fall of dictatorships and the European Union (EU).

I am a EU citizen from Germany. I've been to Poland when I was a teen, later frequented Belgium, the Netherlands, several areas in France, mostly Paris which was 4 hours away on a high-speed train, but also Ardeche and Brittany.

Deutschland

Bundesrepublik Deutschland / The Federal Republic of Germany

A Country in Western Europe

Germany lies between the Baltic and North seas and the Alps. It is a federal parliamentary republic led by a chancellor, with over 80-million inhabitants and with the world's 4th-largest economy -  the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany has social security and a universal health care system, environmental protections, and a tuition-free university education.

Its capital is Berlin, and the largest urban area is the Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet), where I lived, as well as in merged in Düsseldorf, the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the center of Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region. I love these cities and miss them a lot.

Ukraine, Україна

A Country in Eastern Europe

I was born and raised in Ukraine and spent most of my childhood and youth in the South-East.

Ukraine is located by the Black Sea. It is the second-largest country by area in Europe with over 40-million population. Its capital is Kyiv. Its neighbors are Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Belarus, and Russia. Ukrainians created tens of thousands of folk songs.

 Time

Time is a continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession.

Time is an indefinite continued progress of existence.

My own relation to this fourth dimension is strange, because my life stages vary rhythmically and spatially so much, that I would rather deal with a single continuum. Parts of my life seem to me like eras or forgotten lifetimes, and the quiet now can feel longer than all the past combined, and the future feels like a just started painting.

As most people, most often I quantify the rates of change in my reality in years, months, and weeks, and then sequence my daily events - mostly routines - in hours, and only by necessity in minutes. I failed to keep any type of journal for more than a month or too, so I concentrate instead on categorized logs, checklists, and accomplishments by project.

On this site, it is useful to split time into decades and years of my life. And the updates will be ordered my month as well. The date will be visible under the articles where it is relevant (in blog, for example).

I believe that fine art can compact time into the surface, not only space.

Future

I am ready for the times following the current moment. I can influence what is going to happen to a significant extent, I proved it to myself. Furthermore, I often know what is likely to exist later because I make it.

Present

I am existing now.

Past

The times before the current moment stay with me only in the form I choose.

Century XX

In the twentieth century I was growing up in Eastern Europe, in a republic that became an independent country, and a part of it I lived in Latin America.

The Nineteen-Eighties

Most of my childhood happened in the 1980s, and I have limited knowledge about earlier events.

The Nineteen-Nineties

My early youth happened in the nineties. My country fell apart, and the society was reorganizing in some strange, wild ways.

Century XXI

The 21st century is the current century in the Common Era, which began on January 1, 2001.

In the twenty-first century I lived in Western Europe (Luxembourg, Germany, France) and Northern America (Oregon, District of Columbia, and California).

The Two-Thousands

My adulthood had started with this twenty-first century of the Anno Domini or Common Era by Gregorian calendar, and with the third millennium.

My German became fluid; I've got my first computer and a digital camera. I started biking and driving. Two of my first serious relationships with German guys crashed, I lost my paintings, and I changed continents. I was investing into emerging markets (Brazil and India, with gains first but Brazil I kept for too long) and alternative energy (with losses).

I found myself in impossible situations. I learned programming and bootstrapped my first website from scratch. I lived on a boat for five months. I was hit by a mini-bus on a bicycle and thrown under the wheels of another car. I ran a half-marathon through the Redwoods. I lost a lot during the great recession, especially personally. Three of the important to me people died. I changed Coasts and founded an international network.

The Twenty-Tens

My 2010s started in Georgetown, DC and Portland, OR. Most of the 2010s I spent in Southern California, primarily in San Diego and Orange counties.

1. In the year 2011, I moved to San Diego County, California, after considering other places on the Coast.
2. In the year 2012, I lived in La Jolla, California, swam in the Pacific Ocean and hiked with a camera a lot. I finally switched to acrylics for painting, and discovered technical pens for miniature linework.
3. In the year 2013, I finally bought my professional mirrorless filmmaking camera and rig.
4. In the year 2014:

1. 1. My city of birth was dragged into a war;
   2. I moved to South Park, and then to North Park neighborhoods of San Diego;
   3. drove an electric bike everywhere (for five months, then it was stolen) and rented electric smart cars;
   4. spent lots of time in Balboa Park, filmed a lot, made good friends, fell in love;
   5. volunteered for humanist non-profits, ushered in theaters;
   6. studied two full-time semesters: Business Law, English Composition and Critical Thinking, Field Media Production, and Documentary Film;
   7. started working in customer service part-time, and for that switched to evening classes;
   8. and bought an old hybrid car with recycled plastic interior and textile seats.

I could not paint. Most of my finished artworks of that period are pen and ink or graphite miniatures.

(Continued in My Recent Life from 2015)