Daniela Ponath Photography | www.daniela-ponath.de
There are moments in life that bring us back to what truly matters.
Loss.
Illness.
Doubt
Farewell.
A decision.
Or simply the feeling that the answers that once carried us no longer do.
I know these moments from my own life.
You can read a lot, plan a lot, and try to understand everything.
And then life happens.
Plan A stops working.
Plan B doesn’t work either.
Until, one day, a quiet voice says:
No.
This is not the way forward.
Try something else.
Looking back, I can see a thread running through my entire life.
Long before I painted portraits, I was already translating between people, perspectives, and worlds.
Between executives and project teams.
Between physicians, hospitals, investors, and public authorities.
Between technical language and what it actually means for the people involved.
Again and again, I have witnessed how differently people can perceive the very same situation—and how often we see only a small part of a much larger picture.
A different perspective does not suddenly make everything right.
But it can help us reconcile.
With ourselves.
With one another.
With life.
That is why one question continues to stay with me:
Who are we when nobody is watching?
Who are we beyond our roles, our achievements, and the stories we tell about ourselves?
And what moves through us, even when we cannot yet name it?
Perhaps that is also why YOUnique.Art.Experience came into being.
Through Essence Expressionism, memorial and grief art, and the Sol’enra Method, I bring together different paths that all serve the same purpose:
Helping people reconnect with what is essential.
My work is not about improving people.
It is about creating a space where people can be peacefully and compassionately themselves.
With the trust that not everything has to be explained in order to be true.
I did not choose this path to hand out answers.
I chose it to accompany people for a while on their own journey.
A journey I am still walking myself.
Perhaps one day our paths will lead us to the same place.
Or perhaps we will walk part of the way together.
I would be delighted.
With Love, Care & Humility
Nadja
Since 1969 on the journey of being human.
The uniqueness is not in the number of colors but in what holds the colors together. Once-me based on a photograph by Nico Syzmkowiak.
Na Kumu Alapa’i Kaua’i - The King of Slow
Be free! And thank you ever so much for your peaceful presence while I was painting you!
"With the help of the picture, I was able to open a door that I always knew about, but which was invisible to me."
(www.rainer-hoheisel.de)
The magic lies not (only) in the colors you see, but also in those you don’t (anymore) see. Faces speak volumes (but not all are labeled).
Heart and Wisdom Teacher Thomas Young.
(www.thomasyoung.com)
And suddenly there was this chief.
Short time away - What's the color doing? Running ... Once-me: Portraits are paths, show paths...
“Ask yourself,
What is the greatest expression of myself, that I would like to be?”
Once me: Dr. Joe Dispzenza
(www.drjoedispenza.com)
