Meet photographer and artist Julie Poly who sees beauty in the trivial. Her Ukrzaliznytsia project is a tactile rich photo essay book that takes the reader on a journey on Ukraine’s one and only railroad transportation enterprise.

“What I desperately want is to lose myself. To be nothing more than a raw bare piece of nature, that surrenders to simply being and ceasing to be,” she narrates longingly, in subtitled German, while stretched out naked in a steaming bath, eyes closed, weighted by feelings of disconnection from her lover.

‘To the table or to bed you must come when you are bid.’ And so begins the most passionately explosive love story ever told along with a recipe for Christmas Rolls.