Emerging from behind the iron curtain, my paintings, and works on paper, capture the underlying forces that dominate and determine the conditions of the human psyche. Ink, liquid graphite, charcoal, pastels, oils, homemade dyes… Layering, cutting away, pasting over, collage.

Using old time-worn copies of hand-written letters in Russian Cyrillic from my mother & father and copies of text from my old Russian poetry books, seeking to interweave pieces from the language of my childhood to add layers of texture, meaning, and personal history to my work based on everyday life and situations.