In 2009, Boris Zeichner overtook the Carpet Gallery in Østerbro from his maternal grand-father, Erling Wiinstedt. Using the gallery as a focal point, the long family tradition of working with oriental carpet art combined with Boris´ comprehensive university study of the Sociology of Religion has resulted in a new conceptual permutation integrating aspects of oriental carpet-weaving with various cross-cultural relationships. Erling Wiinstedt had his 96th birthday in 2009. But despite his age, he daily is to be found in the shop where there is often use for his extreme knowledge, As he himself expresses it: ”Boris is well-trained and it is still a pleasure to share the many details of Oriental carpet art with him.” Boris is proud to be able to continue to be part of the tradtional family trade and to further investigate how real and unique oriental carpets can contribute to a better quality of life. As he says: ”My grand-father, Erling Wiinstedt, started his own carpet business with Oriental carpets in 1943. Since then, my uncle, Thomas Wiinstedt, and my mother, Jane Wiinstedt, have lived and worked with these beautiful carpets. Especially from the beginning of the 1990´s and throughout my study period at the University, I have spent time in my grand-father´s shop on Strandboulevarden in Copenhagen, only absent when on Field Work trips related to my studies of Anthroploogy or the Sociology of Religion. In the business, I learned from the Master, as both my Mother and my Uncle had, what makes the old carpets so unique and how to preserve them best. Boris’ long-term interest in the cultural perception of reality is expressed in the various events taking place here, such as concerts of Asian, Persian and Indian classical music, genki meditation and karate courses. The different threads of the facets of art and culture are sucessfully woven together to be expereienced by visiting Zeichner and Wiinstedt´s Carpet Gallery in Østerbro. Genki – karate-do and meditation - Movement and Quiet The Japanese word ”genki” means to feel good. But in depth it means ” original ki” or that onc´s ”Ki” is good. ”Ki” being physical and psychic energy, expressed in a continuous stream of energy within the individual. Genki relaxation and meditation are constructed upon the belief that a human being , aside from having a certain inherited predisposition is under the influence of the energy transfers which constantly take place in nature and in the mental sphere of Man. Genki for a Japanese can be a banal inquiry like ”How are you?” but it is in connection with my own studies of the Sociology of Religion, alternative treatment, karate, yoga, and zazen, a synthesis of many of my ideas linking tradition and change; thoughts on par with all culture where people and cultures meet. My life with karate-do began as early as 1983 in Shibunkiju with Michael Voigt and Humberto Butz. Later I switched to the Genseiryu style which is more kata oriented During the past 20 years, I have principally trained Gensieryu with my present master Achene Bendjazia, with whom I travelled to Japan in 1997, where I studied and was awarded my teaching certificate and a 1st Dan black belt.