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New project: KUAAMU – Kuzhebar Synergies

Posted on September 1st, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: design, fashion, Kuzhebar, pyrography.

The project KUAAMU – Kuzhebar Synergies is based on the collaborative work of Eliza Gapenne (Eliz’art, France – http://www.elizart.fr) and Julia Surba (Kuzhebar Design( Siberia – http://pyrography-design.com).

Eliz’art discovered polymer clay in 2006 and since then, her passion for this material and its unlimited creative possibilities grows every day.
She has a special way to use it, mixing it to natural materials and seeds, but also pigments, species… so that she manages to obtain a natural effect to her creations and give them an ethnic style.
Since she met polymer clay, her life took a new direction. She quit her job to dedicate to her passion and creation. Every pieces she makes is completely hand-made and she puts all her energy and sensibility in each of them. Her love of the Nature, her first source of inspiration, influence her work and can be seen in all her creations.

"Through my jewels, I try to reconcile each other with the Nature and make people feel "light" and happy. They are like my attempt to rebuild the link that unifies us Nature, all the more that our speed way of life in modern societies is destroying it more and more day after day…
It’s like something we couldn’t live without but that we don’t realize because we don’t have time to even think about it!
Using seeds, old branches, leaves, sand… in other words, every little treasures we can find if we see things with a creative look, we can make very nice things and give to those elements a "new" life… We just have to free our imagination, put aside standard rules, take time to live fully, be sensitive to our environment and also curious of every thing to make experimentations and then discover new creative fields…"

Julia Surba is a siberian artist, whose favourite expression art became pyrography*. Inspired by art of ancient world cultures, Julia has developed her own "background" pyrography technique by which carving in combination with burned pictures build expressive relief patterns in Tribal Art style.
Last time Julia scrutinizes the almost forgotten small culture of Ancient Kuzhebar (Siberia), that is why her objects often represent the unique world-picture of aboriginal inhabitants of this culture. She tries to keep its knowledge, live and develop it.
Julia Surba is a member of the International Association of Pyrographic Artists (IAPA).
In 2005 she established the "Kuzhebar-Design" studio, which is specialized in pyrography-design, design for music instruments, developing of logos and CD-covers, fashion and amulets.
*Pyrography or art of fire (from Greek pyros = fire) or Wood Burning Art is the art of burning an image onto a surface: wood or leather. It was popular in many ancient cultures of Australia, Afrika, Amerika and in Ancient Kuzhebar .
About Julia Surba:
"i love you artwork! i think it was the innovation of alot of todays modern art with the spirit and earthy feeling of old. thank you for your beautiful art it brings out true emotions… good luck in the future
peace and thanks,
Thomas Dirk"
“What I thought when I saw your work was that it was original. I can see an influence of Mayan, African, and Tribal……but, really it is your own twist. I think you started a new category of your own and one day students like me will be studying your style”.
Archeologist April, USA

The idea of the project of Eliza and Julia KUAAMU – Kuzhebar Synergies is to bring together ancient signs, natural elements and modern materials like an example of the way, how the ancient and modern forms can be kept balanced, complete and support each other instead of destroying each other.
We see that nowadays, people often feel disconnected from the Nature and their roots. Too much new information comes each day, too many things they have to manage at the same time, no time for rest, no time to stop and look around, no time to see the beauty of the Nature, no time to think about the life they live, no time to enjoy it…
In ancient times, life looked different. Not so comfortable on one hand, but closer to the Nature and in harmony with the body and the mind on other hand. Ancient people knew how to speak with flowers and the wind, they understood how to respect the elements and they could "read" natural signs around them.
Today, new technologies come into our life, changing it completely, putting us on the big distance from each other and from ancient natural life style. All that push us to create the project KUAAMU – Kuzhebar Synergies, which is our try to create a bridge between past and future, natural life style and high speed life in urban cities.
Each object we make has a message, because the ancient kuzhebarian symbols are involved into them, what let them be called "Kuaamu".
Kuaamu are actually a special kind of save objects which were used in the culture of Ancient Kuzhebar (South Siberia). At first sight, they can seem like jewellery but they are not. There was no idea in Ancient Kuzhebar to beautiful oneself because people thought they were primordial beautiful. By the way, they were very practical and it would be a nonsense for them to have some baubles on without any magic intention!
We also use in our works natural elements, such as seeds, wood, pigments etc. which are combined with polymer clay, material that allows to create almost everything we want (there’s no limit to imagination with this material, except those we impose to ourself).
We put all our passion and love into each piece we create together. Each Kuaamu is unique and has its own purpose.
We hope you’ll enjoy the results of our collaboration and Kuaamu will bring more joy and harmony in you life, just stop, look at them and read the message they have.

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Second edition of pyro-boxes for jews harps is out now

Posted on August 15th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, Kuzhebar, music instruments, pyrography.

the boxes depic mainly the figure of one of ancient kuzhebarian dethless creatures named Kuzheshu, what means first fish or fish-mother. This edition is now available

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New hat collection from Kuzhebar Design

Posted on June 14th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: design, fashion, foto, Kuzhebar.

New  ethno hat collection from Kuzhebar Design.
Material: cotton and polyacril (symbols)
Price: 29,- Euro

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Shamanic tunable Frame Drum with henna design

Posted on April 10th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, henna painting, Kuzhebar, music instruments, pyrography, video.

Shamanic tunable Frame Drum made from deer skin with henna design in traditional kuzhebarian style.

This drum is made by David Roman Drums and has a revolutionary tuning system, you can tune it with bicycle pump in seconds to any pitch! See video for details.

Henna design made by Kuzhebar Design Studio

This demonstration video made with help of David Kuckhermann

the price is 249 EUR

please ask by email for shipping price.

Other shamanic drums with customer henna design are also availiable!

you can optionally order the beater with pyrodesign:

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Frontal world plane or kuzhebarian mandala

Posted on April 4th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, foto, Kuzhebar, pyrography.

One of the forms of the world picture engraving in Ancient Kuzhebar.
The solar symbol in the centre depicts the arch-father of Ancient Kuzhebar – Yagdyn.

The inner circle build Dethless Creatures, who bring into the world different kinds of beings, which symbols you can see on the external circle.  On the frontal world plane  it is easily  to recognise axles, which present the vision of an always growing and renewing world.

Julia Surba. Pyrography on wood, diameter 34сm

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Exhibition report, ethnological museum, Berlin 2007

Posted on December 15th, 2007 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, exhibitions, foto, Kuzhebar, pyrography.

Kuzhebar Design studio (Julia Surba) and Sound Microsurgery Department (Vladiswar Nadishana) presented their exhibiton stand with kuzhebarian art and music during Markt der Kontinente in Berlin´s ethnological museum these two December´ weeks. This cultural event brought together people who present or are interested in art and handcrafts from over the world.

We were happy to answer a lot of questions about Ancient Kuzhebar, pyrography, music and variety of other objects we presented this time.  Visitors of the event brought into focus that all the things we presented are made by ourselves what was a kind of unique on this event.

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Kuzhebar shadow theater piece

Posted on December 4th, 2007 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, drums, Kuzhebar, music instruments, video.

Traditional Kuzhebar Shadow theater piece devoted to a winter solstice performed by Nadishana and Julia Surba at Maultrommel Festival, Leipzig.

A shadow play is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment. The performance involves the projection of light or fire on a white screen, on which performers use figures or puppets to produce shadows. It is popular in various cultures, f.e. in Indonesia, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Turkey, Persia and Greece.
In Ancient Kuzhebar the shadow theatre was usually a part of ritual celebrations such as solstice and moon rituals. Traditionally the shadow play was shown near the fire place inside a big frame drum (Buben, Tungur) and was synchronized with the drummer playing.
Here you can see a shadow theater piece devoted to a winter solstice.
Music : Vladiswar Nadishana
Shadow theater: Julia Surba
The aim of this project is to rebuild and to develope the kuzhebarian tradition of shadow theater.

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Sound Microsurgery Department and Kuzhebar Design on Maultrommel Festival (Leipzig) – Report.

Posted on November 29th, 2007 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, Kuzhebar, music instruments, pyrography, video.

Video: Excerpts from Nadishana’s concert on the festival

We just came back from the 1st International Maultrommel Festival (Jew’s Harp Festival) which took part 23rd-25th Nov in Leipzig, Germany. That was exiting experience, we met a lot of enthusiastic people who loves this little instrument! They came

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