artist statement

My current work is a portrait of self and the experience of others facing similar challenges – disappointment, separation, and search for resilience.

 

Through the conception of dynamic identity, I am exploring personal integrity to reconcile my past and present self, my Ukrainian legacy, the story of unplanned immigration, and survivor guilt.

 

I investigate the borderline between the categories of private and public, hidden and shared, and individual and national, including examining intimate stories of tragedy and heroism unveiled in mass media.

 

Working in collage is a metaphor for assembling the fragmentary and redundant images, facts, and narratives we encounter each day into an extra-somatic mosaic memory. Through this lens, I am drawn to the aesthetic and semiotic power of collage to create a new reality out of endless split ideas, illusions, and truths.

 

From small works on paper to large-scale murals, I invite the viewer to experience a new awareness and picture of our world.