Artwork Gallery – Magazine Issue 2. Connections

Where did your journey as an artist begin?
I started drawing in my early childhood. I
often created fictional characters and made
up stories about them. My school notebooks
were all painted on the back with images of
various creatures. Even mathematics was
easier for me to understand if I personified its
abstract concepts through concrete personalities.
That’s how my thinking worked.
in Kherson. But my environment teased me
that I could only be an art teacher and such a
profession would lead to poverty throughout
my life, etc. Then I gave up, and the next year
I passed the exams at an architectural university
in Donetsk because being an architect is
a profitable job. But in my heart, I remained
an artist!
I always knew then that my work would be
connected with artistic creativity. At the age
of 10, I went to study at an art studio, and
after I entered the Faculty of Culture and Arts
After the engineering classes, I came to the art
class and drew there for hours, often staying
all night.
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The university staff already knew, that I was
obsessed with drawing and I cannot be
kicked out from behind the easel, so they
did keep me. And for me, drawing was the
air that I breathed!
How did traveling affect your creativity. What inspired and what images or
feelings filled your works?
After receiving an architect’s diploma, I
realized I lacked knowledge about the human
being, the inner world I wanted to portray,
and what drives a person and what shapes
him. I draw shapes, but each shape is a whole
material text - why does a person have such a
look, facial expression, posture, and physique,
how did a person become like that, what is
the magic of his personality?
To find answers to these questions, I went
to study at the Faculty of Philosophy and
Religious Studies. At the same time, I worked
as an interior designer - philosophy nourished
my soul, but my body also wanted to eat.
The load then was simply crazy! But I was very
happy to study. After graduating from the
University, I realized that life cannot be read
from books, it can only be lived and passed
through oneself. If I wanted to learn more
about people, I had to go among them. That’s
how I became a member of ethnographic
expeditions.
I was lucky to travel a lot on non-tourist
routes, I saw the real life of people in different
regions of India, Nepal, Mongolia, Cambodia,
and many other countries. Also, until 2014, I
visited Karelia, Tuva, and Buryatia as part of
expeditions.
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