ABSTRACTIONS
My personal artworks. Canvas. Acrylic
Series: Streaming landscapes
In my series of paintings, I create abstract compositions that subtly allude to landscapes and encourage reflection on the complex social process of migration. My abstract landscapes become a metaphor for migration and cultural transformation. Through vivid layers of paint, flowing lines, and patches, I convey fragments of native places, cultural heritage, and memories that intertwine with a new environment, creating dynamic and unique landscapes of identity.
In my technique, I use a multilayered approach. By spreading layers, scraping off parts of the paint, or adding new layers of mixed colors, I create surfaces where each layer interacts with the previous ones, imbuing my work with dynamism and energy, conveying movement and constant change associated with migration. These actions reflect both destruction and adaptation, emphasizing the process of transformation and integration.
Migration encompasses not only numerous political, economic, and cultural aspects but also profound emotional states. My series of paintings is my personal emotional response to this process. My experience of migration inspired me to create these works, through which I strive to convey the emotions of loss, chaos, and integration that inevitably accompany this journey. These emotions highlight the dynamics of changes and the breaking of boundaries—both geographical and emotional.
My paintings create a space where cultural identity is perceived as a living and multilayered process. Each fragment of paint, each break in the lines, becomes part of a global dialogue between cultures, uniting past and present into a single space and revealing the beauty and complexity of cultural exchange and mutual enrichment.
Series: The space of uncertainty
The series “The Space of Uncertainty” reflects the contemporary condition of our world, where streams of information create a sense of rupture, instability, and anxiety. We live in an era of blurred boundaries between truth and illusion, where the flow of contradictory data deprives us of the ability to distinguish reality from its reflection.
With the rise of the internet and social media, the volume of information has grown to its limit, bringing along doubt, mistrust, and confusion. Everything happens at a relentless pace: events replace one another before we can comprehend them. The world dissolves into fragments, opinions, and distortions.
For me, this series is a personal response to what is happening. The inability to find reliable information about the situation in my homeland, Ukraine, has deepened my sense of detachment and disorientation. These feelings are reflected in my paintings — layers and patches of color collide, merge, and separate, creating a sense of chaos where familiar boundaries between form and meaning are broken.
My works are an attempt to express the feeling of informational turbulence — a kind of background noise where chaos coexists with beauty. They reflect how the overabundance of data transforms our perception and our sense of self in a world where everything is fluid and uncertain.
Series: Parts of the space
My paintings “Parts of the space” from the series “The space of uncertainty” are filled with bright, chaotically scattered, multi-colored parts. They convey a metaphorical reflection of such a complex social process as emigration. Emigration covers all aspects of a person’s life, from being forced to leave one’s home due to hostilities to seeking a new life in an unfamiliar country. Emigration is a complex, multi-layered social process that affects millions of people around the world. It includes many political, economic, cultural aspects, as well as deeply emotional states. This Series of paintings is a personal emotional response to this process, revealing simultaneously an emotional sense of loss, chaos associated with displacement, as well as a sense of a new beginning and reuniting with a new. My works not only convey my personal pain due to the hostilities in my home country of Ukraine, my emigration, but also the feeling of uncertainty among millions of people around the world in our turbulent and conflict-filled times. I made the multi-colored fragments of the paintings torn and mixed to reflect the destruction of the familiar world, to show the chaos that invades the lives of people going through forced emigration. Each piece of paint is a unique story, a separate life, torn and scattered, like the fate of emigrants. And at the same time, each of them is part of a global process of movements and changes in world space. All the torn parts in the paintings are on the verge of disaster and beauty. They intersect, collide and become one, creating a new reality. This process is similar to how people from different parts of the world create a new society, woven into the structure of a new country. In my project I created complex and multi-layered works that reflect the reality of emigration as a process of separation and reunification, rupture and restoration. Despite the chaotic elements of my paintings, everything exists in unity, everything is intertwined and creates a single field filled with deep meanings and hopes, which emphasizes the importance of understanding and supporting the emigration process.
