I'm from Ukraine. I began my journey in drawing and sculpture long before art school, in creativity I found and still find the opportunity to go beyond the limits of my brain, and sometimes even the limits of this world. That is why I do what I do. Since childhood, I have been inspired by the image of a renaissance man. THE PERSON WHO CAN DO ANYTHING. Therefore, I tried to develop in all areas. I also see the need to search for answers as one of the key things in a person’s life, starting with the most basic things, and gradually delving into more complex matters.
I became interested in quantum physics, electronics, mechanics. Which later resulted in three educations: mechanics, electromechanics, lighting engineering with a specialization in quantum physics. I find inspiration in the world around me, and especially in nature. One of my favorite science subjects is biology. I am fond of macro photography, which you can see in my profile on instagram. Collectively, all my hobbies and interests as a result find their expression in my drawings, sculptures and writing. Music, sociology, various fields of physics, mechanics, biology, mathematics... all this is combined as a result and symbiosis. In search of answers, he deeply studied religions, which was also reflected.
But to say a little about my life... My father died when I was 4 years old. From birth, I lived in a post-apocalyptic world: surrounded by smog, mines, a metal plant, a chemical plant, radiation. It was the city of Enakievo, Donetsk region, Ukraine. Industrial themes in one way or another sometimes burst into my work. There I graduated from art school. At the age of 14, my health finally failed, the doctors predicted that I had 3-5 years left to live: my bronchi began to die and rot. We changed our place of residence to a more environmentally friendly one. In endless wanderings in the forest in my new place of residence, I found salvation from illness, inspiration and a new hobby: macro photography and collecting skulls that I found in the forests. Over time, he moved to a large city and lived there for 8 years. And then the war began. No, it started even before that: a little time passed after my departure and Russia attacked my homeland. Now she has come to my new home. Fleeing from the bombs and the atrocities of the occupation, my girlfriend and my younger sister and I left for Poland. Here we were received by kind Poles, and now I have a house and a place where to create. Also in this town we found many of the same mind and I created an art community united by a common philosophy expressed in the manifesto. The goals of my art now are to talk about topics that are sick for me and society, self-expression, expression of inner images, thoughts and emotions.
In every sphere of life, we have a framework that limits us, a function, a boundary, an aisle. Collar. In an effort to expand the scope in any of the areas, we are trying to achieve greater freedom. Expand, unclench the clamp. And only having completely lost the border, breaking the yoke, we gain complete freedom in the sphere ... but here's the irony in that gaining in one, you lose in another. Absolute freedom is impossible and no one is absolutely free. Only death liberates from everything and at the same time enslaves non-existence.
This picture is an ironic and multifaceted parable. On the one hand, someone was able to break his collar. But at what cost? Through what suffering? Did he gain that utopian in its essence complete freedom? If he found freedom in one thing, then what could it be? Let everyone look into themselves and see this collar on themselves. What area of your life do you represent? Look closely at your life. Are you pressed by some area in your life and you lack more freedom in it? Are you ready to loosen your collar and pay the price? What will be your price?
Freedom on a nationwide scale has no compromise. It can only be through will and pain. History continually challenges the freedom of the nation. But the very right to exist depends on the ability to withstand these challenges.
Freedom of mankind... energy freedom, freedom from the will of Mother Nature, freedom from the fate of the planet and freedom in the Universe. All this requires efforts, sacrifices, a greater yoke in other areas.
As we can see, freedom requires sacrifice. Even Christ gave his life so that people could have the freedom of forgiveness.
Material: oil paints
Year: 2022
I am against war, murder, destruction. But when someone tries to enslave you, take away your freedom and what is yours and what you created, you have the right to fight back. Personal freedom, and even more so the freedom of the country, does not tolerate compromises. But when it is necessary, even in the hours of triumph, soldiers dream of peace, of home, of their favorite pastimes. The idea of this work was to show the triumph of the return of freedom, and with it the hope that the world will bring what everyone is waiting for. And weapons will disappear from your hands, like a terrible dream, and fishing rods, brushes, cameras, microscopes will appear instead. And on the shoulders is not a heavy, dirty bulletproof vest, but a favorite shirt. The work was created during the liberation counteroffensive in the Kupyan direction, one of the main turning points of the war.
Life is not a dotted line, with a succession of "white and black stripes". This is a whirlpool in which everything is mixed up, and at the same time you can suffer and enjoy. This is a swift stream and a path in the darkness of ignorance, at the end of which there is even greater uncertainty. Originally, this piece of plywood was supposed to have other work. But the emotions and reflections of the last months, the flight from the war, the reassessment of everything in life, the loss of past achievements, values, the acquisition of new impressions, experience, knowledge, emotions and much more required a way out, and therefore the hand itself created, and it was guided by the heart and hidden parts consciousness.
When something breaks into the world, human life, the Universe, the planet, destroying the past to pieces and creating a new reality. It's happening... Breakthrough.
In this work, I expressed the emotions accumulated in me after the collision with the difficulties of a sudden move to another country that befell me. All my searches, loneliness, difficulties. The work was created very quickly in a fit of emotional wave. Everyone contemplating this work can feel a little how it is against their will to be left without their home, without understanding what will happen in the future, near the abyss of despair and hope.