Ties. 01
Geese
Angry Flower
Ties. 02
Ties. 03
Doodles
2025
This series began when I was forced to leave my home
and had to unpack the suitcase of emotions I carried with me.
It was an overwhelming experience for me — and at the same time it was clear that thousands of other people were going through something similar.
All memories suddenly lose their footing, it becomes impossible to reach the familiar.
You open your eyes and find yourself suspended in a pulsating, frozen space;
you close them and can grow roots into your place in the new world.
and had to unpack the suitcase of emotions I carried with me.
It was an overwhelming experience for me — and at the same time it was clear that thousands of other people were going through something similar.
All memories suddenly lose their footing, it becomes impossible to reach the familiar.
You open your eyes and find yourself suspended in a pulsating, frozen space;
you close them and can grow roots into your place in the new world.
1/3 Weightlessness.
Watercolour and colours pencils, 420/300mm
2/3 Die here, grow elsewhere.
Watercolour and colours pencils, 420/300mm
3/3 Inner world.
Watercolour and colours pencils, 420/300mm
it becomes possible
to assemble something
to lean on — something like
a home, something like your own inner world, a place
you retreat to in order to rest and remember who you are.
Short comic tale
2021
A story inspired by the Russian folk tale “The Crying Fox.”
It’s about a group of geese who find a magic pea,
head into the unknown — and discover that only death
is waiting for them there.
I decided to rewrite that ending in my own favor.
It’s about a group of geese who find a magic pea,
head into the unknown — and discover that only death
is waiting for them there.
I decided to rewrite that ending in my own favor.
Graphic pancil, procreate.
Graphic pancil, procreate.
A complicated structure
Illustrations2025
This continues an exploration of the emotional experience of immigration — specifically the sudden realization that you are made of your home, and even if you take it out of yourself, there is still a space left behind shaped exactly like it.
If you part from it, the tie can never be fully severed; if you try to find
your way back to it, that path cannot be found.
If you part from it, the tie can never be fully severed; if you try to find
your way back to it, that path cannot be found.
1/5 Weightlessness 2. Selfportreit.
Watercolour and colours pencils 420/300 mm
2/5 Common moon.
Watercolour and colours pencils 300/210 mm
3/5 A hole the size of a home.
Watercolour and colours pencils 420/300 mm
4/5 A journey to Ixtlan.
Ink and graphit pencil 300/210 mm
5/5 Gentle allowance.
Watercolour and colours pencils 420/300 mm
for a new sense of home after its complete loss.
Here there is the constant presence of memories that knock you off your feet;
the desire to reconnect with
the past through elements
of the present; the pure feeling of loss; the refusal to move forward — and yet also the hope that once it becomes possible to grow even something small, to build at least an awkward little hut on the site of a once-whole past, new guests will begin to arrive.
Strange ones, unlike anyone before, but already interesting again.
And life will be able to go on.
The self becomes a giant
Illustrations
2025
Reflections on the search for home, on how at the very beginning — especially when it has been absent for a long time — it can feel like
a place to hide from the unfamiliar, to shut out watching eyes, to protect one’s vulnerability.
When that home is lost, the self becomes the only remaining support. With time you slowly begin to carry that home within yourself — until,
at some point, you become your own home.
1/2 Connectedness.
Watercolour and colours pencils, 600/420 mm
Watercolour and colours pencils, 420/300 mm
Random short illustrations
Graphite and colour pencils, ink. handprinting.
2022-2025
Separate sheets made for different purposes: unchosen sketches,
ideas for series, unexpectedly born characters.
ideas for series, unexpectedly born characters.