I am Deliara Yesieva a.k.a. Daria Yesieva-Kartsinski, an artist, an illustrator, a photographer and passionate hiker, living in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 2000. Being a visual artist most of my life, I have been hunting for Beauty everywhere I go. I came to the Southwest in 1996 from the cold and saddle colors of St. Petersburg, Russia, with a double Masters in Literature and Book Illustration training from Moscow University of Publishing. Arriving in New Mexico I immediately started to experience visual shock, which instantly changed my whole set of values...more