So to inaugurate this new account, we wanted to start of by introducing ourselves, no this is not someone writing with multiple personality disorder, but rather the reason I write in plural is because this will be the shared account of myself "Artin", my beloved "Iulia" & our two 4-legged daughters "Kymia" & "Salsa".
We have decided upon the family name Qiparosa, an altered form of Chiparoasă, meaning Tuberose in Romanian.
A family inspired by the simple beauties & truths of life. Together Iulia & I will be sharing our adventures, explorations & the things we learn together in this blog.
About us Individually
Iulia Qiparosa
She has had a wild life, hailing originally from Romania. She has had a lot of experience in her early teens helping organize a lot of big psytrance-festivals. She is a passionate photographer, always ready to capture a beautiful shot & according to her it has annoyed many people she has known throughout her life, although I personally have been grateful for the great moments she has been able to capture of us & our dogs. She is also a skilled artist, using many different mediums to work with, but most unique to her is how she likes to use materials found in nature & turn them into jewelry. On our walks she keeps collecting all sorts of small pieces of little barks, woods, bones, fruits & seeds to bring back home with her, inspired to turn them into earrings & pendants. She has a very refined taste in food, something we both share, having fun in the kitchen to produce awesome nourishing wholesome dishes & sweet treats.
But I will let her continue to write her Intro from here in her own words:
I am Iulia - a wanderer of worlds, a weaver of dreams turned into reality, a very real surreal being, seeker and giver of light, an artist, and last but not least a child of God, deeply heart rooted in Mother Earth. My journey through life is about creating beauty, finding purpose in everything, both big & small, a deep connection to nature & human nature, to the natural world, where every passion, every expression, every craft, and every endeavor stems from the dance between each element. My approach is a holistic one, there is no place for separation, every “story”, every sound, every fractal of light comes together as one flower which holds the essence, the perfumes , the textures of the fabric of this existence in true intimacy guided by God.
I was born in Baia Mare, România, yet my first years & my journey began in the countryside of Sălaj, in a tiny village called Letca. There, my house was a natural one, a cob house, a more than 100 year old house, which was in the winter very warm and in the summer was the best place to retreat in its cold freshness during the most hot days when the sun migh be a bit unbearable. The house was covered in wine grapes, I was surrounded by the whispers of leaves touched by the gentle winds, the beautiful sound of humming insects, and the embrace of a wild garden where I was surrounded by roses, tulips, lily of the valley, peony & Hyacinths . Trees such as the elder tree, and the lilac and quince trees. This was the vast bouquet of smells and essences, the fragrances of my childhood. These were my first guides & teachers.
My earliest memories are of that garden which i described few lines above, a garden that felt alive, my sanctuary where plants whispered the secrets of the universe and where the earth became my playground. It was there, where my roots sank deeply into the fertile soil of Mother Earth, the place where in my first years of existence I learned to listen to the absolute majestic melody & quietness of the magic of life.
I've lived in several countries throughout my life, namely Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Germany & the UK, now I find my home in Croatia where I live with the love of my life 'Artin' & our Paw-Daughters Salsa & Kymia.
What regards my passions & interests, there is a whole list of things I engage with, which I will be posting and expanding upon in future posts:
Permaculture, eco building, land art, clay, sculpture, painting, embroidery, knitting, leather crafts, natural jewelry's from natural elements, cooking, baking, herbalism, alchemy, writing, poetry, tailoring, photography, videography, life.
This is who am I, a creation of God, of Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Spirit, Light, and Ether. Through each element, I find expression. whether in crafting with leather, telling stories through photography, writing or poetry, or exploring new realms of healing and spirituality. I am constantly reminded and the reminder of the sacredness of life, of the way these elements move through me, through all of us and through all things.
As I walk this path, I invite you to join me. Let’s be. Let’s create, heal, and explore together, for life is a mysterious divine journey that is ever unfolding infinite possibilities, always transforming, always blossoming. Let’s all walk in the light, among the elements, together. We are alive. We are life. We are a Walking Laboratory through which flows The Natural Artistic Flow. We are!
Artin Qiparosa
I was born & raised in Luxembourg but am of Icelandic & Persian descent. Literature in all its forms both reading & writing have been something that has been ever-present throughout my life. I dropped out of the school system due to my dissonance with having my brain washed & being of a very auto-didactic nature, another quality both myself & Iulia share with each other. I have taught myself many skills, such as the art of distillation & silversmithing.
My love for perfumery got me into distillation, which expanded into a tremendous interest in herbs & plants not only as a perfume material, but also lead me into exploring herbal & natural medicines. Silversmithing was something I started doing, due to my interest in metals & crystals, which then expanded together with my distillation practices in exploring laboratory alchemy. For those unfamiliar with Alchemy, no it was not so that I may produce the philosophers stone, but I was more interested in herbal alchemy & the techniques by which one can catalyze essential oils from minerals & metals, with the intention of creating very unique initiatory medicines.
I also taught myself how to craft with leather, using an old 75 year old singer sewing machine & also hand-stitching, so far mostly creating tobacco pouches & notebooks.
We both share a tremendous love for God, in my life this has led me to explore many spiritual paths & practices, although the alchemical view is the one that stuck to me most & next to that all of the shamanic ways of relating to life & nature, but above all else I resonate with having an intimate relationship with God/Source. Following the motto: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.”, which has been proven true so many times throughout my existence.
The love of writing has been ever-present throughout my all of my endeavors & explorations, it has been therapeutic & also a great way to test myself in how well I understand any given subject I was engaging myself with through writing about it.
I have also taught myself music production, playing the guitar & a small variety of other instruments, you can find my music on both Spotify & Bandcamp
This Spring shortly before meeting Iulia, I was living out of my van in Luxembourg for a couple of months, I had almost given up on the property in Croatia. During the few months that I lived out of the van I was featured in an article about myself & Kymia, it was featured in the Luxembourgish Magazine "Revue" Edition 29/ 2024.
A good friend of mine also made a Podcast-Interview with me highlighting & questioning me about my views on life & spirituality, which was done in English, this all happened during my time living out of my van with kymia.
A few more little bits of info:
In my twenties I hosted several silent retreats that lasted 3 days each & I used to offer shamanic sound-journeys, creating healing soundscapes using the shamanic drum & tibetan bowls. I still do sound-journeys but no longer as a service that I offer to the public. During that period I got initiated as a Kambo Practitioner. I also had been active on Hive/Peakd using the handle @ravenking13 since July 2018, but have stopped using that account since I wanted to start fresh with a clean slate & didn't want all of my past relationships mixed with the new life that I am creating. For in my Heart, when I met Iulia I knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that she is my One. Together we are at the moment renovating & building in true DIY fashion a property I had purchased in Croatia last year.
The House of Qiparosa & our shared Vision.
The House of Qiparosa is our space of exploring in Hieros Gamos, the Natural artistic flow guided by the joy of a healthy & natural life, surreal living, grounded by the natural elements, charged by the grand planets and descending into the slow aware process of inner alchemy. Attempting to Immortalize the beauty of life through photography, land art & jewelry using natural resources, sculpture, tailoring, leather works, up cycling & "no waste" life approaches in the motto “nothing can be destroyed yet everything is transformed”. Finding a fitting “place” for each element.
Constructing our humble homestead with inspirations drawn from Eco-building and sustainable practices. Living the Slow, Countryside Life.
Sharing our passion of Baking, Cooking and DIY.
We engage in living Creativity as Life-Force.
Reformulations & detachment of any societal and spiritual ideas which are not aligned to the greater good and God’s divine plan.
Our raw life experience only, no other exterior sources such as certificates from the systems out there. Slow travels deep into our own inner worlds, reflections of our daily life and experiences. Nothing more special and beautiful than life itself. Wishing to manifest & bless with harmony, beauty, unconditional love, respect and growth all living beings. Honoring every magical beautiful aspect of life. This is our goal and aim.
Helping nature restore its healthy course, through organic gardening, providing a healthy ecosystem for all stages of life, increasing the fertility of the land, exploring ways to restore health to the wildlife that surrounds us (taking care of the bees, promoting healthy soil by providing a healthy environment for mushrooms/mycelia).
Through our writings we are actually diving into our own inner worlds & as we dive in, we reveal and bring to the surface our own truth, nothing was ever invented nor discovered, everything was always already here, in our hearts & souls. Guided by the truth of god, sobriety, discernment and inner work things are revealed in the sea of truth, returning to the rivers of life from the inner oceans which are irrigating and hydrating all the landscape there is. We are not artists, we are not writers, we are nobody, the nothingness which shines all colors without mixing them or diluting them. We are what we are.
Being aligned and true to our existence and God we are guided into the revelations of truth which are in the simple things, the closer you are to the truth the more the simplicity of life unfolds and that’s the most complex sophistication of simplicity.
We are all one. One is all that is. One with God, one with nature, one with all that is.
There is no separation and if there appears to be any… then that appearance is nothing but the bridge of opportunity to come back to the "Land of One". Hearted roots, heARTed arts, the martial art of loving and being. The One magical and majestic expression of life.
We are the creative nothingness under the umbrella of ”The House of Qiparosa". Everything that is created by us is not really created by "our" hands as our hands and beings are only the vessels of god. We are one.
We are also rebuilding our private website at the moment & will be featuring some of our Crafts on Etsy.
Loving Regards from the 4 us to everyone reading this post!
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@godfish Thank you very much! We Definitely will!😁🙏
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