Llamas' Valley / Spring issue

March 2013

Editor’s letter

Alge Ramanauskiene Editor-in-Chief

Llamas’ Valley alge@llamasvalley.com

Isn’t it odd to begin the colorful Spring season with a black and white issue? But let me tell you – black and white are the beginning of everything else. Can you imagine (just for one moment!) life without light? Without soil? Without salt and pepper? I can hardly imagine my life without black coffee either.

Even when a little creature opens his/her eyes for that very first time, just for one short moment this gaze is so dark, almost black! And then it starts getting some color. The colorful life begins.

When you fall asleep, you usually fall into total blackness. But after that, if you’re lucky enough, you dream a beautiful colorful dream.

The first movie. The first book. The day you start your family life. The field just before the first green It all starts with black and white. Black and whishoot comes out. te are the beginning of simple things that make our life worth living.

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Happy days of Ylva Skarp If you think calligraphy is something that doesn’t exist anymore in the age of modern technologies, the creative work of Swedish calligraphy artist Ylva Skarp can prove you quite wrong.

Ylva Skarp

Calligrapher and designer

Text: Alge Ramanauskiene Photography: courtesy of Ylva Skarp

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This story is filled with passion and dark love. It is the story of a young man who loved black licorice candies so much that he wanted the whole world to fall in love with their taste, smell, and all the magic hidden in them.

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stereotypes Renata Mockute

Architect of a loft in Vilnius, Lithuania

Photography: Sergey Puzansky

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Text: Alge Ramanauskiene Photography: courtesy of Yulia Kondranina

Yulia Kondranina Fashion designer

Feminine from within

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Author of the food blog “Manger�

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