I am from Belarus and I currently live in Los Angeles. I am a self-taught artist. I have not gone to art school, but I have been taking classes throughout my life and I think there is a lot of learning ahead.
In an environment and time where art goes hand-in-hand with social rhetoric and narratives, I create something that does not carry a message of protest or satire. I don’t put any meaning or symbolism in my paintings. Nor do I express my inner world through colors and canvas. All I do is I strive to create harmonious and energetic visuals. Simplicity is valuable to me. Ideas come from everywhere, but they grow best in solitude.
I like to reconstruct the world, to isolate things from their context, parts and elements from my compositions, reducing everything to what is essential, so that the subject will look as if it had been there for a long time, very natural, just expecting to be seen like that.
Awareness is important, also the way you think and observe the world. I like contradictions, and I think freedom is not something we can achieve; it is what we choose to have from the start in creating unconventional distinctive works.