As an artist, I work on the topic of the contradictions in the nature of mankind, which is stuck in technical innovation, in the rapid pace of life. I tried to visually recreate the path of human conscience from the mythical worldview to the perception of the conscious, the metamorphosis of our conceptions of the sacred and the ideal. I explore the psychological origins of religious idolization of suffering and self-sacrifice. Are we a hostage to the value system we actually create? Are we really trapped in fate? Are we really managing our own lives? Each picture represents a question, an argument, an answer and a challenge to modern society and everyone who ponders when they see it. I don’t believe in inspiration, I believe in research. I do not believe in God, I believe in Divine truth. I don’t believe in fate, I believe in people. I do not believe in miracles, I believe in coincidence. I do not believe to artists, I believe to their works. Each of my works begins with a text, often paradoxical.
I am quarantined in Ukraine, from where I moved to Prague a few years ago. I arrived for a week to Kiev to undergo annual mandatory rehabilitation and I can’t leave home for 2 months already.
Artist always reacts to real world changes, and I have only pens and ordinary paper to do my work. Remnants of gold leaf. I started reflections about finding new foundations in our lives and reconsider old ones couple of years ago. I admire people’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances. This new icon series #TheSecondComing made on office paper usually used for needs of bureaucratic system is one more example that the everlasting human desire to find new heroes archetypes doesn’t depend on a situation or availability of work materials.
Every work is covered partly in gold and hand-made embroidery.