Untitled, 2025

  Sun during a hurricane, 2025  

Monotype on paper, 70×50cm

The concept of this series was outlined back in the pandemic, when it seemed that entropy had increased to the maximum. And now it seems to me that this period has not passed, but on the contrary, has intensified its manifestations. I still feel how humanity is rushing through a series of global upheavals. And this mad whirlwind is reflected in the works.

“Sun” is about inner clarity, about hope and about building internal supports where external ones are lacking.

  Black Sky Mode, 2021-2025  

Ongoing graphic series of several dozen works, based on my photographs printed as engravings. Paper lithography, monotype, A3 format, + margins, edition of 10 or 16 pieces of each work (the edition depends on the work), but all prints in the edition are unique due to the peculiarity of the technique.

 A series about atomization and at the same time merging with the place. The works immerse the viewer in nostalgia and melancholy. Through coal dust on the snow and chickenpox rash, through the dirty glass of the bus and the broken ice underfoot, a documentary, almost diary-like narrative emerges about how to survive in this fragile reality, in concrete boxes under heavy clouds.

The monotype technique generates spontaneous textures and artifacts that associatively refer to the unstable surface of life, which always finds a place for itself on the periphery of an aggressive environment, sometimes merging with it and getting lost, sometimes timidly declaring itself as a subject endowed with hidden power.

Untitled, 2023

Watercolor, bleach and charcoal on paper, 30×40 cm. Works from this cycle figuratively refer to spilled water, waves, scattered pebbles, as if there was a shipwreck, or a tsunami, and after it we find strange, half-familiar objects scattered along the beach. This greeting or echo of a massive catastrophe is felt as if through interference or the thickness of water.

And just as it is difficult to build memories of a dream into a logical narrative, it is almost impossible to collect fragments of scattered hopes into a complete picture of the future.

Data recorder, graphic project, 2023

Watercolor, bleach, charcoal on paper

We put a lot of effort into restoring lost documents, papyri, burnt books. Complex scanning systems, data analysis, decryption, all this in the hope of overcoming time, and therefore death. Accumulated human knowledge, for all its monumentality and weight, can be destroyed in an instant, just one madman or one random lightning strike.

War is one of the main factors in the death of culture, and although culture can rise from the ashes, perhaps it would be easier not to destroy it. If we recognize the primacy of the value of each individual human life, then we must also recognize the value of individual communities, communities, and their cultures, so that in a few hundred or thousand years we do not try to free our priceless past from coal scrolls, like black boxes.

Black calendar

  Bitumen paper,  acrilyk, white inc, chalk.
Watercolor paper, watercolor, charcoal.

about the ability of people to build something in a world where there is nothing left. Part of the project is made on bitumen paper, parchment. The difficulty of working with the material, its oil nature refer to the environmental problems that any war brings with it. Nevertheless, even when everything is destroyed, people continue strange social rituals in which one can see fear, aggression, altruism, hope.
More about this project on that page

Collective inaction.

 watercolor, charcoal on paper, 40×60cm, 2020

The pandemic has brought new challenges to humanity. Now community for us is inaction. At a time when it would seem that everyone understands each other as well as possible, we suddenly lost faith in the ability to influence something, and froze in anticipation and misunderstanding. Inaction leads to a deterioration in empathy, disunity and loss of social ties. My works describe this state. I model various situations in which people cannot express themselves, and take on the role of outside observers, obedient performers, random passers-by, etc. society into a cluster of lonely subjects. Is it possible that the pandemic will be a lesson for all, and we can overcome disunity and apathy, go into the future with new skills and new solidarity?
More about this project on that page

Somewhere, but not here. 2021  

Gum-arabic transfer, charcoal on paper, 60×80cm

For many, armed conflicts are a plot from the news or video games. We watch them from the outside, experience them as spectators of a performance. Even participating in a video game as the main characters, after we close the virtual window and return to a quiet life. But how quiet?

 The TV or computer screen is a membrane through which different worlds leak, changing each other. War seems to become more ordinary and we are not surprised that a former classmate, an airsoft enthusiast, goes to Donbass, records a video during the shootout, posts it on his YouTube channel, and immediately gets likes and comments. In this plane, the virtual and the real merge.

 But if the connection with the real enhances the impression of the virtual, then the virtual, on the contrary, annihilates reality, making it, albeit interesting, but another content that is impossible to fully comprehend.

 In a series of graphic works, I used screenshots from real footage of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, taken by participants in the events and posted freely on YouTube, and fragments of video game renderings. In the general fluid space, where the game merges with reality, it is difficult to understand what has a documentary origin and what is game-based, reflecting the general permeability of ideas and events.

Picking error, 2021

Dry needle, monotype print  

 series about how people build walls for themselves, enclose everything in boxes and crates, standardize, isolate and complete. Many phenomena cannot be organized or stuffed into a box; they will still somehow break out or leak out. Each work represents a new situation and new objects in boxes that cannot or should not be hidden, while some of these objects try to overcome isolation in different ways.

Poorly managed landscape, 2021

Gum-arabic transfer, charcoal on paper

Terrion orientation, 2020

Watercolor and charcal on paper, 40×60cm