team and friends

UPD 22.03.2023

I was postponing this post for a while because I wanted it to be perfect. But friendship is not about being perfect, it’s about staying in touch and helping each other to move forward.

Same for teamwork. This post continues the “about me” storyline. I don’t function without people. And I decided to start with one, who is getting more helpful every day and making the blog finally live its life. I hope this post will get her some appreciation that she deserves.

Say hello to Sil!

Sil is my assistant. We met on tinder, and she is fantastic! She covers my calendar, content production flow, supplies for our candle factory, brings food, and gives me massages. The bitter part about Sil – she is a refugee from Ukraine with children and our work is… let’s call it hectic. So we try to structure the task flow and use email for this purpose a lot.

Btw if I took pictures of you during our session and you still didn’t get them, or we have another kind of unfinished business – please send your request to

sil@sicut-dico.com

This post is only to start mentioning the people who help me to create this blog and make other things happen. For now, I just list them and link their websites or social media, if such exist, and later I’ll tell you more about each one of them one by one:

NAMES

• M.
• Gene Bogolepov
• Ari Denaro
• The Slut
• Shanti
• Stylists: Julia Vilianen & Vladyhell
• Photo & video artists: Jessa Bloom, Manuel Calicchia, Elad Itzkin, xshamaya_photographyx, Sima Otkydacmex
• Nastya the candle unicorn (please get in touch with me if you read it)
• Melancholia Graphic
• Whiteorchestra

In November, when this post was published and I only started working with Sil – we were preparing to survive the hell season for me.

This time I was somehow extra irritated by the hallmark teddy bear postcard aesthetics and ended up asking people on social media: if they could create their own kind of postcards that reflect their true feelings, what would they write on that postcard? What would be The Message to send or to receive?

I got a lot of different answers. Way too many to pick one or 10. So the solution was obvious to me.

The best message is the one that works for you. So it had to be personal.

Since I like to make things complicated you won’t get the full story of this project right away. Here I only introduce a new team member – Sasha Whiteorcherstra, welcome on board! Soon Sasha will explain the details behind the image on the postcard and perhaps some other mysteries too.

Thanks for watching!