My first series, "Windows", explores the window as more than a boundary between inside and outside, the private and the public. For me, it becomes a metaphor for the shifting temporal boundary between past and present. Throughout the series, I engage with well-known works of European, Russian, and Finnish art, reinterpreting them through a contemporary lens. Each work is an independent reflection on a question that deeply concerns me. “Windows” series became my first personal visual language, allowing me to speak about myself and my relationship with the world for the first time.

Another important focus of my practice is the dual identity of a migrant who has lived in two cultures for more than fifteen years. My work brings together the cultural codes, visual motifs, and artistic traditions of the two worlds to which I belong. This theme continues in my "Carpets" series, where I draw on the tradition, widespread across Middle Eastern and post-Soviet cultures, of hanging carpets on walls. Combining elements of Russian culture with universal imagery drawn from fairy tales, folklore, children's book illustration, and naïve art, I reflect on migration, adaptation, nostalgia, and childhood memories. I believe that the feeling of being disconnected from the world, the desire to protect oneself from its pain and uncertainty, the search for belonging, and the impulse to retreat into the imaginative space of childhood fairy tales are universal human experiences that transcend cultural and national boundaries.

All of my series are united by a desire to create a dialogue: between past and present, between different cultures, and between personal memory and collective experience. By revisiting familiar images from art and culture, I seek new ways of speaking about what is often difficult to express directly — memory, identity, belonging, and the relationship between the individual and the world.