MUSETOUCH is a free magazine about visual arts. It has been created by Maia Sylba out of love and passion for art with the hope that people will be able to use the publication and website as a platform to showcase their skills and gain recognition.

"There is a story behind every creation...there is a story behind Musetouch too. I created it to escape from sorrow, great sadness I was going through. It helped me to find myself, to save myself and above all, to meet the most emaotinal, sensitive, imaginative kind of people...the artists. I heard their stories, I meet them...most of them became my close friends, and helping them became my aim, my greates wish, the purpose of my life.
I am working for free for two years now, trying to present as much artists as I can. Trying to connect them with agents, collectionars, gallery owners...for free.

Musetouch is a free magazine, all the presentations are free,the magazine's blog posts, official facebook fan page posts, pinterest, twitter...I am doing everything for free.

Yet, although I am giving my best and working 10-12 hours per day, I can't manage to finish everything that I plan and need to, which is making me quite sad and devastated. There are tons  and tons of emails to which I didn't manage to answer, artists I didn't manage to present, people I couldn't help.

I need funds to finish the web site for Musetouch which will allow people to upload their creations by themselves, web site where they will be able to connect with agents, gallery owners, collectionars and byers. The web site where they will be able to make their own profiles, a little shops that will make possible for them to sell their works. My plan is not to take any provision from the selling. I am devastated with other web sites who are taking even 70% of every work sold, greedy people who are using artists and their  creativity, their hard work to gain abundance, to get rich. I never thought that was fair...I think that is even more than rude. That is so called modern capitalism.

There is no bigger crime but to use others people hard work and think about them as a number, not a living human being with feelings.

I plan to take only symbolic $5 per year from every artist as a membership fee just to cover hosting and server expenses of the web site that are already huge, but I am paying them by myself for  two years now and I don't know how long will I manage.

My work...everything that I do, which includes presentations and promotions of the artists, promotion of the web site, getting connections and advicing the artists, writing interviews and creating the magazine itself will remain free for ever. I just want to be able to dedicate myself completely to the magazine and people I present.

That is why we need your help.

Every donation will mean a fortune for us and we will know how to appreciate it, no matter how small it is...the most important is that it is coming from the heart.

Helping Musetouch and all the artists I presented and will be presenting in the future, is a beautiful cause, a noble cause, humane cause and I thank you with all my heart in my name and in the name of all of them."

Maia Sylba, creator and editor

"I am proud of you for your work in Musetouch and also inspired...it is also as if language cannot contain nor express the passion dreams and art of the artists...but there you are on your golden surfboard riding on the tumultous waves of muse....you too a muse...the question being what images to send you as my vision embraces the earth, the worlds, the many levels and dimensions of reality, fantasy, light and shadow, light and darkness...you know the work of Balthus and Lewis Carrol are part of that phrase Diane Arbus wrote regarding do not fear to photograph what draws your heart and soul...for it is the child wherein dwells the dream...and we who live briefly beyond that time we were child..remain within child ...and when there...we are not far from that time when we were before birth...coming from the great ocean of darkness and dreams to the ocean of light and awareness...it is said that "before we were, we were loved and named, and from the source
of creation the yearning that we might grow and appear in our utmost beauty"...so I am drawn to the memory and the presence of the child with the fantasy and dreams...but not an idealized concept alone because even as children we are more aware and feeling and passionate than adults are williing to remember...if anything their is both a fear of that time an attempt to both supress the boundliess energy and curiosity of childhood...to force the child to become filled with the rigid thinking gird of superstition and shame and repression...while in truth they are like hollow reeds from which
the most beautiful thoughts and music can flow...all having deserved that mothers love, that milk and nurturing and celebration...that time of oness with the god of life, beauty and creation...that ebb and flow of beauty from the ocean of our dreams and desires, of our life and death...from whence we all come and go...so there...within this world and reality we dwell in...there is aloso the invisible but present dimensions of dream and fantasy...the delicate tendrils of love that encircle us with sweet breath....from which we are called upon to see, guard, protect and nourish...so I am lost in words...lost in the beauty and mystery that pervades the impulse of your Musetouch....for truly with our art and vision and music and dance and form we touch, we kiss and are kissed, embrace and are embraced...we rise, child and old grandparents, lovers, we rise and transcend this eartlhly form...like sweet fragrent wisps of spoke...yes words fail us...but we stand ever the child
full of wonder by the night sea, neath the sky of endless stars...neath the pulsating throbbing rising undulating light"

Mark Sadan, fine art photographer and director of the legendary Sesame Street.