The book presents selected artwork created by ALEK (Alexander L. Kalamkarov) from 1975 to 2025: oil and acrylic paintings on canvases and slate stones, ceramics and drawings. It presents 276 high quality illustrations of paintings and 114 original drawings. All his life ALEK has pursued two parallel careers - as a fine artist and as an academic. He is an accomplished artist with many art shows in Canada, USA, France and earlier in Russia. Simultaneously, Alexander has been a professor of mathematics, and mechanics at different universities, and he is an internationally recognized scientist in the area of smart composite materials. ALEK's art reveals a mystery of spirit and a beauty of our world, human imagination, and fantasy.