ABOUT
I have climbed many mountains, I have walked forbidden trails. I spent youth fighting for freedom, middle age… in self-made jail. I had days of joy and glory, yet, at times I lived in shame but I’ve learned to live my own life, and now I can truly say that I lived each day with passion, and if I didn’t… God, have mercy on my soul.
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--A fragment of Liliana's song Passion
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--A fragment of Liliana's song Passion
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AND no END
If I were to choose
to be just one short word
I’d choose to be
the word "and"
‘Cause if "AND" I would be
It would guarantee
that there would never be
the end of me.
©Artpeace 2002
ENDORSEMENTS
“Not since the first time I heard Barbra have I been as touched and impressed by a singer and her music as I have been by Liliana.”
--Marty Ehrlichman, the discoverer and manager of Barbra Streisand.
“Liliana’s style of writing (and drawing) is simple, direct and has a wonderful childlike quality and yet the wisdom contained within these poems is profound and psychologically sophisticated. I especially recall the one day when Liliana was reciting one of her poems and the thought that kept running through my mind was that this was Dr. Seuss for adults!
“Lilting, fun, the mental pictures easily and quickly evoked by her poems seem to allow adults to listen with their "guards down" and the poems' messages, therefore hit a deeper place in the listener's psyche." --Linda Leftwitch, PhD
"You must never stop singing!"
--Pope John Paul II
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--Pope John Paul II
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ABOUT LILIANA
Liliana Kohann* grew up in the beautiful city of Gdansk, Poland. Under the terror of a communist regime, she was forced to experience life in a different, challenging and interesting way.
As a strong-minded, intuitive and extremely creative child, although popular among her peers, she was frequently misunderstood by teachers, and even her parents, and often drifted to the world of imagination. Writing down, since early childhood, her inner dialogs, poems, songs and stories became a form of survival, an escape from the world she had to deal with, and at the same time a bridge to her own core of being.
By the time she was 19, she had written over 500 poems and short stories within the pages of her journals. She was beginning to be recognized, and awarded for her beautiful voice and unusually creative and inspirational songs and writings. After she took first place in a national competition for songwriters and performers, the Communist Authorities issued a statement that she would not be allowed to perform in the next competition, as her words were “too expressive.” This, and other unusual tragic life circumstances that were to follow, lead her to America.
No matter what happened in her new life in this country, she would always pick herself up and start over with even more determination. There was, however, one thing that she didn’t pick up for a long time, and that was her pen. It took her fifteen years before she would write again.
Only a few years ago, as a single mother of three little boys, she began a search for the inner child she had left somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. And it was in that process that she resumed her writings. Her lyrics and poetry so cleverly interweave the depth and wisdom derived from her life, with playfulness and great humor, that everyone will find her work irresistibly compelling, deeply enriching, and highly entertaining.
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Liliana speaks about herself:
It is a miracle that I started writing again, and a miracle that I started singing again. I thought I never would. The story of why the artist within me was silenced for so many years remains deeply within me, still so hard to tell...
I don't write to teach others, I write what the voice within me whispers to me. I often wonder why do I do this or that, why do I still tend to fail at so many things, and as I write in my journal my "why" questions, somehow the answers appear. I simply write them down.
Describe my work in one sentence? Hmm... I don't know what it will be for others but for me it is a journey into the creative powers of subconscious mind. Imagine yourself standing on one side of the abyss - in the world of our logical Self, our human self, sometimes struggling, sometimes insecure, alone or confused. On the other side - the world of unknown, the subconscious, the divine mystery, the fairy tale, the dream. My work is a bridge between the two. It is a joyful embrace of all the aspects of life; it is reaching peace, excellence and healing through the expression of arts."
I don't write to teach others, I write what the voice within me whispers to me. I often wonder why do I do this or that, why do I still tend to fail at so many things, and as I write in my journal my "why" questions, somehow the answers appear. I simply write them down.
Describe my work in one sentence? Hmm... I don't know what it will be for others but for me it is a journey into the creative powers of subconscious mind. Imagine yourself standing on one side of the abyss - in the world of our logical Self, our human self, sometimes struggling, sometimes insecure, alone or confused. On the other side - the world of unknown, the subconscious, the divine mystery, the fairy tale, the dream. My work is a bridge between the two. It is a joyful embrace of all the aspects of life; it is reaching peace, excellence and healing through the expression of arts."
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Behind the night there is a light.
What really is a shadow? Embrace them both: idleness, growth, all blooms on your life's meadow. |
A fragment of a song EMBRACE
©Artpeace 2008 |
SIMPLY FREE
For me I want to be
free
For them I want to be
one of them
for her I want to be
a hero
for him I want to be
stress-free
for all of them I want to be
everyone but me
But for me I want to be
simply free.
©Artpeace 2001
by the baltic sea
Liliana with her three sons in Poland.
In a song Adrianek you will hear Liliana singing about this Sea and about the house above the shore...
"Somewhere in Poland, across the Baltic Sea,
There was a mother, rocking her baby to sleep.
Son, are you safe now,
It's all my heart needs to know.
I love you forever in our house
Above the shore..."
In a song Adrianek you will hear Liliana singing about this Sea and about the house above the shore...
"Somewhere in Poland, across the Baltic Sea,
There was a mother, rocking her baby to sleep.
Son, are you safe now,
It's all my heart needs to know.
I love you forever in our house
Above the shore..."
*Liliana Kohann (called by her family in Poland and childhood friends "LILA," pronounced "Leela").
In her creative writings, Liliana also previously used names Liliana Przewlocka, or Liliana Overman.
In her creative writings, Liliana also previously used names Liliana Przewlocka, or Liliana Overman.
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