Artist statement

As an artist, I claim that my works reveal and change the facets of interpretation and meanings of “normal” and “unique”. I challenge the normative expectations of illustration and challenge the status quo of illustration. With each new drawing artwork, I reveal myself more and more, like a book that is still being written. My works are catchy, contrasting; it is difficult to look away from them. It's like a direct question that you don't expect. The viewer remains in amazed bewilderment, piecing together his thoughts.

  Under the enormous influence of the books of Bulgakov, Burgess, and Pratchett, I learned to see impossible creatures and outlandish cities in reality. Hard Russian Rock music and its subcultural contexts opened the door to the realm of nightmares, beckoning mystery while simultaneously being juxtaposed by the bright colors thrown onto the canvases with the influence of Modern Pop music.

Since childhood, I was playing with clay and paints and was passionately drawing everything that came to my mind; who knew that this would lead me to the road to my future? This passion for creating never faltered and it now become the path to my future. My family has always supported my passions and eccentricities, however, one thing always remained unclear to them. The fact that I have always been excited and admired by the idea of people and their behavior. So different, interesting, and incomprehensible; all beautiful n their way, doing controversial things. People and their intricate meanderings through reality are the basis of all my concepts for my work. Notions of the irony and Byronic attributes of human nature are fascinating to me:  In the morning, a person smiles at his family, and in the evening the whole city is looking for him for a cruel crime. What is the basis of human behavior? As an artist, my observations of the world around me are my research practice, I find the keys to unlocking human consciousness through my artwork. This means, my aim as an artist is to influence people through my work and to make them think.