Do it when I’m gone. From “Iron Overtones” series

"The project "Iron Notes" began with a series of graphics, where, in the empty space of a sheet, I made still lifes of images and objects that excite me. Things seen on the street during walks, images of provincial childhood and objects from the immediate environment lined up in a composition and began a silent interaction with each other. The street and the home, the past and the present, the seen and the imagined seemed to penetrate into each other, creating a special inner space of the sheet.

An intuitive game with close and understandable images turned out to be puzzles that cannot be solved in one word or phrase, but can be fully experienced as a complex range of feelings. The objects began to appear a little later, as if materializing from the graphics and expanding into volume. This series is primarily about relationships, about the formation of personality boundaries and the experience of interaction, in which the tactile and spatial level of perception is very important. The characteristics of the objects — softness and rigidity — are displaced here, as if the objects had forgotten about their functionality. This makes them vulnerable, they are more like characters and participants in a relationship, rather than interior items. The inner world, the relationships between people, and the everyday environment are constantly changing and influencing each other. Therefore, the language of objects is interesting to me as a means of understanding and expressing complex feelings."

Text: Asya Marakulina