In 2001, Mariana was a Ukrainian art student living in Haifa, Israel. Our plan was to have Mariana join us for our Key Largo shoot in Florida but you know the old saying about plans. A visa issue kept Mariana from entering the United States. We never did understand the bureaucratic snafu. So we arranged for Mariana to model at our London studio. "Michelangelo Buonarroti felt that the most beautiful creation in the universe is the human body. I am a disciple of his philosophy," Mariana said.
