“Old Wiring” from the series “Miner’s Everyday Life”

"If suddenly we are torn out of the capital's hangout and placed in a coal mine to a depth of 1000 meters, where people work hard to get their bread in coal dust and cramped labyrinths, risking their lives, many of us will begin a "cleansing of consciousness." Maybe then we will begin to informally relate to moral values, to accumulated internal evil both in society and in culture. We are persuaded to put ourselves "high" in a beautiful and satisfying place, but there are few geniuses who have the right to do so, and everyone else, in pursuit of "success", becomes either small or large predators.

The series "Miner's everyday life" is an associative metaphor for the reckoning of other people's fates for our ambitions and well-being.

1. "Old Wiring" — old backup cuts. old pieces of wires, black puddles of mud with cigarette butts floating in them. Desolation and catastrophe are the futurology of our lives...
2. The "Miner's Bed" is an environment that a normal person cannot accept.
3. "Stitched horizons" is a duplicated horizon line of gloomy mining life, where the sky is gloomy on the surface of the mines, and the disembodied coal land is studded with dangerous man—made debris."

Text: Yuri Nikiforov