Imagination is something that is saving the world from mediocrity. Unimaginative people and those who lost imagination due to life circumstances are dead even if they breathe, move and work. One day I realized that I had almost died as well. Something woke me up and helped me understand that I would never be able to feel alive if my creative power didn’t find an outlet.
All artworks in this series were made at the beginning of my creative development, when I had already regained consciousness but had not fully come to my senses yet. That was the time to reconsider the values, the search and experiment time that also coincided with the moment of my maturation, with the period when I had to say goodbye to my childhood.
My farewell to childhood was prolonged and painful. I really didn’t want to lose
virginity, become adult and serious, take responsibilities and discharge women’s
routine duties. I tortured myself, exasperated my loved-
A lot of physical and mental pain falls to every woman’s lot. Defloration, menstruation, SLM, childbirth, men’s offences and unfaithfulness, girlfriends’ betrayals, misunderstandings in the relations with mother. But it is these trials that, step by step, help to open her inborn potential, overcome her childish shyness, get rid of the fear to lose control and learn to trust. Going through pain, blood, sufferings, doubts and disappointments a girl gradually regenerates to a woman.
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2006-