How did you end up creating a whole universe around your persona?

For me, the inner is harmoniously connected with the outer. My universe is the result of work on myself, my thoughts and desires. It’s such a platitude, but I just believed I had control over my life and was able to shape the reality around me. As the artist Vasiliy Kandinsky said, “everything starts from a point and the kingdom of a point is infinite.” My point has spread beyond the borders. Everywhere there are blots from my brush, I want to circle the drawing on these points and guess from it, as fortune-tellers do with coffee grounds, asking “what kind of artist I am.” Just as a passer-by cannot fail to notice the meowing Kitten, so I cannot miss the idea that caused my heart palpitations. I look after it, stroke it, sketch, feed it, and then let it go free. The shortest description of my art will fit into one “ellipsis”, three points of the boundless realm of curiosity, understatement and brevity. Now that the watermelon animals from my photograph exist in reality in the form of sculptures, I can say for sure that fantasy and thought shape this world no less than volcanoes and earthquakes.

Your aesthetic is often surreal. What are you trying to communicate by playing with the notion of beauty?

Beauty is the foundation in my work, just like a newborn, unintelligent baby, crying rejecting a stranger or, conversely, reaching for him, or rejecting him instinctively making an aesthetic choice, so the viewer who accidentally saw my art holds his gaze primarily due to the unconscious attraction to the beautiful. The world starts to cover with grey clouds, when people, as they grow up, begin to abandon everyday beauty when they no longer admire the shapes and curves of trees, the colors of sunsets, and tongues of flame. Marcel Duchamp challenged all of us with the most ridiculous question at first glance, “Do you think that there is nothing interesting in the chair?” and changed the history of art. It was this challenge of persuasion that led me to Magical Realism. These concepts are essential coloring in my life and help to give things whimsical forms. I would like to emphasize the immortality of Imagination in my works. To be honest, I am a lazy person for ideas. Sometimes I prefer to just play with sizes, increase something habitually small to a giant, but as it turns out, this is enough for the first step. If this hamburger is one meter long, then I can be his cutlet. The absurdity fades into the background, and everything seems easy, natural. Everything is a fun game. If these proportions of fun are preserved, then this post will be published on Instagram.

I have noticed that you are currently based in Florence. What brings you there? Maybe you have something special about this city to share.

A city where all art is, even the sound of countless bells in the mornings, especially on Sundays. I am here to be close to the creations of Botticelli, David, Giotto, Da Vinci, to study painting and sculpture, to enjoy the Tuscan nature and delicious pasta.