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This photo is from a Q&A with Preston Hollow resident Patricia Ivanisevic for our July 2010 edition of Preston Hollow Advocate magazine.

Photo editor Can Türkyilmaz says the moment he met Ivanisevic at her apartment he had a feeling she had some mystical qualities.

“She was like an all powerful ancient South American goddess living incognito. A true character from a Neil Gaiman book. I had to have a portrait of her that looked as mundane as possible with a ‘when you see it’ moment,” Türkyilmaz says.

He decided to defy gravity for her photo. Standing her her apartment filled with balls of yarn he had all the inspiration he needed.

“I put my camera with delayed shutter on a tripod and placed myself right outside the frame so I could throw one end the scarf up in the air right on time. I got this shot with our first and only attempt,” he says.