Oil on Canvas,
40 x 50cm,
2024,
Post-Orbit depicts Ugolyok (Snowball in English due to the fact she was found on the streets in the snow) being examined by doctors after a harrowing catapulted landing, caught between confusion and recovery. The painting’s borders serve as symbolic storytelling devices, echoing folk art traditions that communicate narratives beyond words. The painted borders draw on folk‑art traditions, adding a quiet narrative frame that connects her documented history with the softer, more symbolic ways her story has been remembered.
‘The Space Dogs series examines the emotional and ethical tensions in how we relate to animals, drawing on the histories and myths of the Soviet space dogs. These paintings hover between tenderness and control, presenting dogs as vulnerable, spectral figures shaped by human stories. Blending fact, folklore, and memory, the works reflect on agency, dependence, and the quiet costs of domestication - asking what our stories about animals reveal about us.’
Oil on Canvas,
40 x 50cm,
2024,
Post-Orbit depicts Ugolyok (Snowball in English due to the fact she was found on the streets in the snow) being examined by doctors after a harrowing catapulted landing, caught between confusion and recovery. The painting’s borders serve as symbolic storytelling devices, echoing folk art traditions that communicate narratives beyond words. The painted borders draw on folk‑art traditions, adding a quiet narrative frame that connects her documented history with the softer, more symbolic ways her story has been remembered.
‘The Space Dogs series examines the emotional and ethical tensions in how we relate to animals, drawing on the histories and myths of the Soviet space dogs. These paintings hover between tenderness and control, presenting dogs as vulnerable, spectral figures shaped by human stories. Blending fact, folklore, and memory, the works reflect on agency, dependence, and the quiet costs of domestication - asking what our stories about animals reveal about us.’
