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Mark Chikivchuk

@markeliusss

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🇺🇦 based in SF

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My first story is about Josey Baker who is a baker. @joseybakerbread
This story started for me coming every Wednesday to work from The Mill. Even tho they don’t have outlets or wifi (oh, this trendy people trying to engage people to have real conversations!!!), but only a beautiful atmosphere, beautiful people who come there (btw here i met a lot of very interesting wonderful people and very interesting events happened from that), beautiful people who work here and the authenticity that this place has carrying with raw materials, wood rafters and the skylights through which the natural light pours in and spills across the wooden shelves filled with ceramics, books and plants, old big wood tables and benches from some historical church??
And the feeling that you want to come back here, and to be a part of this experience and the feeling that you just feel good here.
I didn’t know for a long time who was the owner of this place until i saw Josey walking into this space with his energy and it felt that this is him.
I wanted to tell him how i admire this place but couldn’t find a right moment. Until i i accidentally won a merch of his bakery on instagram and then i asked if i could do photos for him.
And here comes the photos that turned to the story. And more story will come soon with a full video interview (stay tuuuned)!

First song- Brian Eno - Music for airports #1.
Second song is Josey’s song called “we’re all gonna die (and that’s ok)”

Big shout out to my brother who edited this video and who forced me to come back next day after the photo shoot and film more videos of the space:) big love @artem_chikivchuk

Thank you
Love,
Mark taken in The Mill SF by @markeliusss

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Літаєш by @markeliusss

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9 days ago

Our family
📸 by @frolov.vladyslav taken in San Francisco, California by @markeliusss

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13 days ago

It took absolutely forever to finish the full interview and finally post it.
And now when the time came the very bad time had also arrived to @joseybakerbread and @themillsf
The Mill was on fire on June 29th, and here are a few important things:

This video was filmed a few months before the fire.
It was a peaceful, flourishing time. This place always felt honest, sincere, and full of life. People came here because they loved and appreciated life.
Now, this place is dark and empty—damaged, carrying the weight of its history.

But there’s something even more important than that about this space.
I see now how the community works, when you create something that beautiful, that is truth, that is sincere and generous, that is love, that is what brings people together and that’s what actually create the community around this place. This interview is just about that, about life and a person who throughout his personal story became who he is and who is a part of the story that brought all these beautiful people together.
See a full interview from my link in bio.
I want to use a moment to ask you donate more to help rebuild this soul place, GoFundMe link in Josey’s bio.
More story from Josey to be told about the fire when it will be time for that.

Thank you taken in San Francisco, California by @markeliusss

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Olli, the whole world is beneath your feet.

How and where you take your steps will shape what happens in your life and where you end up.

I think I’m only just beginning to teach you without holding your hand and physically pulling you up with my strength. Instead, I want to tell you that you need to try, to give you the opportunity to understand how things work, to try and make mistakes. Like with that tree: you asked me to help you climb it and wanted me to lift you onto it. That would have been easier for me, but it was more important to give you the chance to feel your body, your own balance, your abilities, to suggest what might help you with your next step, and simply be there beside you.

I love you for every part of who you are, for the way you feel the world, for your sensitivity, for your curiosity about everything. I love you in the moments when things are hard for both of us and when we are tired. I have finally learned not to get angry and to stay aware that you are a child, and that if anyone needs to learn, it is always first me and then you.

I love being your dad. 🤍 by @markeliusss

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I’m so curious to see who you’ll grow up to be. What your energy will be like, what you’ll love, what you’ll want to do, and what will catch your attention.

What you’ll value, and what will matter most to you.

What memories you’ll carry with you, and what dreams you’ll dream.

The one thing I hope is that you’ll always love life the way you love it now. And that life will remain your most fascinating friend — someone you’ll want to explore the world with and discover everything around you.

I love you, Ollie taken in San Francisco, California by @markeliusss

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Love these improvisation music sessions with you, baby
Love to see your world expressing and your feeling of rhythm and energy by @markeliusss

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We were growing up together only first 6 years of Nika’s life in our home. I was rocking her on my knees putting her to sleep, carried her on my hip, played ball, fed her, and just watched after her when my parents asked. And then she moved to another country with my parents when i was 16 and she 6 years old. And then we would meet twice a year, never enough time to get to know each other.
Friendship is always forming through going through hard times, brotherhood forming through everyday life, seeing each other in absolutely different states of their own lives, in a good mood, not in a good mood, in aggression, happiness, support, in periods when you don’t have energy and strength to support, in all these your brotherhood forms, your blood family forms and that’s why it’s so strong and so important connection, which almost impossible to tear apart, if you had it all.
This is interesting to me. I didn’t have opportunity to live this life and experience with you, Nika. And now i am a dad, who always doesn’t have time, you are a student and also working, you have your own life in another city (again), but i feel the connection and the future in this connection and that we are very similar, and so much to discover.
Love you, little sister
Thank you @memostone for this idea of photographing us together ( never thought about it tbh) it was important🤍 by @markeliusss

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Sandpiper peace taken in San Francisco, California by @markeliusss

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5 months ago

Funny, i started to write my thoughts about this year and they were very positive and all about process of progress in time, and then later i looked at all my photos from 2025 and in some ways it was one of the hardest years 😂 Started last year with a car accident then a lot of personal dramas and it was times were i was just screaming my soul out like i never ever did before, i felt like my soul is dying and what is funny that now i feel mostly very happy, i feel very connected to myself and more open to the world.
I remember when i just moved here i couldn’t speak English at all besides knowing words like “apple and banana” and “my name is Mark”, and at that time ( almost 4 years ago) i couldn’t imagine me having a conversation with people, sharing my feelings, etc
Now i almost don’t feel the difference between my native language and English, and this is very important point for me, bc this was my biggest challenge and a lesson this year- making steps from disbelief in myself and starting open up for the opportunities.
Another example is surfing, i felt that i don’t deserve to even start doing that, like it’s too cool, too good for me, i am not enough to fucking do that lmao. And i finally got to the point where i just want to enjoy from what i am doing, from me being me and not waiting for some perfect moment to come.
I spent almost a whole year on focusing on my hunched back, and i felt i will never be able to stay straight, to spread my shoulders. And here i am, a year later keeping my back straight, looking at people’s eyes straight with a feeling that i am enough, that i am who i am, i am Mark i am talented, i put efforts, i am a dad, i feel life, i create, i listen, i support, i am free, almost.
Next chapter is expanding and figure out with the rest of fears of bigger steps, steps that require bigger beliefs in yourself. And more trust and just step by step, baby. Time will tell taken in San Francisco, California by @markeliusss

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Я завжди думав, що це вік коли ти відчуваєш найбільшу кризу, вийшло навпаки- відчуваю найбільшу гармонію і найбільше кайфу в житті
Я Марк, люблю життя, намагаюсь дослідити його з цікавих мені сторін, творю будинки, творю деталі у фото, я тато, намагаюсь бути люблячим, вчуся проявляти любов і піклування
Намагаюсь життя це життя і бути щасливим, а не бідкатись на нього
Для мене основна тема і виклик цього року це не жити в ілюзії, ілюзії мрій того, що коли щось буде краще, а творити і створювати це своїми руками
Бути присутнім - цей момент це і є твоє життя, цінувати його - справжній момент, не тоді коли все стане ідеальним, а його , теперішній момент

Дякую цьому року за знаходження друзів тут, і за відчуття, що нарешті мені добре тут
Нарешті мені знову добре з собою
Хтось мене нещодавно запитав, чи це важко бути батьком і я розумію, що я так сильно відчуваю, що це не важко, що це прекрасно, що я нарешті знайшов прекрасний зв’язок і розуміння з сином, і що воно виходить з розуміння себе і з керуванням любовʼю
Чим ближче до себе, з любовʼю, тим краще
п.с на третьому фото це я :) by @markeliusss

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