✔ Signed by the artist
I painted this portrait as an attempt to capture a state that is impossible to hold — a moment when a person is both here and somewhere deeper, beyond the limits of habitual perception.
Her gaze is not directed at the viewer directly — it slides slightly to the side, as if fixing something that escapes the rest. There is a sense of inner knowledge in this, but without demonstration, it is more a presence than an affirmation.
The color here works as an independent energy. The face is not built from the usual skin tones — it consists of fragments of light, emotions and impulses. Each brushstroke is not just a form, but a state: a flash, a response, a trace of an experience.
It was important for me to maintain a balance between a recognizable image and its disintegration. Therefore, the figure remains readable, but at the same time dissolves into the surrounding space. The boundary between the inner and the outer becomes conditional.
This is a work about perception — about how we assemble reality from fragments, and about what always remains outside of this process.
Series: “Collected from Light”
This series is about a portrait as a process, not a result.
I work with the image not as a stable form, but as a state that emerges from color fragments. The face is not predetermined here — it gradually manifests itself, being assembled from light, movement, and the inner tension of color.
Each portrait does not fix the personality, but holds the moment of its formation. The image remains mobile: it can change depending on the viewer’s gaze, lighting, and inner state.
I’m interested in the boundary where a person stops being “recognizable” and becomes a sensation – almost disappearing, but at the same time more real.
These works are not about appearance.
They are about presence.
