The images were created using the camera-less technique of light prints of full-size objects on light-sensitive photo paper. They imitate fossils that, according to the author, the "paleontologists" of the future may find in millions of years, and they are unlikely to be mammals.
Science art project dedicated the evolution of climate and landscapes of the Earth, their past and future. Petrified pages of memory of the Ural Ocean and the Great Perm Sea, which existed in the Ural Mountains in the Paleozoic era, reemerging in the Anthropocene epoch.
The artist dedicated this series of works to her stepfather. All modern objects in the photos were cut out in Photoshop in the form of white spots like in children's appliques.
Photos of the urban environment, including posters and street ads, were printed on transparent film and shot as a pile through a light table with a long exposure. The result is an image that looks like a watercolor painting. Through this action, the artist transforms many symbols and signs into a single image as if she adds a flavor booster to the dish. But it doesn’t make it tastier or healthier.
To Live Ten Lives is the working title of my new project. When observing wild herbage plants often found in our area, I noticed that their appearance changes considerably in the course of growing and wilting. A young plant looks different from a blossomed one, and a blossomed plant does not look like a fruiting one, and so on in chain order until it fades away. Moreover, each species changes in its own way. Ivan tea, for example, is simply a champion in changing, and the same cannot be said about wormwood.
The first association I got was how strongly a person’s appearance changes at different stages of life, and it was not only about biological phases, but also external changes. The number of these changes is different for everyone, some person can have eight of them while for another one fifteen won’t be the limit. Sometimes it seems to me that at these moments one personality dies while another is born inside the same body.
But why do we try to see everything happening in nature as applied to the person? On the one hand, it is a natural way of understanding the world, on the other hand, it is the egocentrism of the dominant species, and it is worth moving away from it in order to understand natural laws, admit their differentiation and stop treating other species in an exploitative manner.
I am planning to observe several species of wild herbage plants in pre-selected places during the calendar year so that I can later line their portraits up and see the visual-and-temporal perspective of changes.
The planned deadline for the project work completion is spring 2023.
