Lyudmyla came to Austria from the war – without joy in it, though she had loved this country for a long time. The first thing she encountered in her new country was not the language and not the people. “WHEN I ARRIVED, I DIDN’T YET KNOW THE LANGUAGE OR ANYONE HERE — BUT NATURE WAS…
This series is my attempt to reconstruct myself through the landscape. In 2022, after being forced to leave my home, I found myself on the Atlantic coast of Ireland. Everything around me felt foreign, vast, and indifferent, while I felt like nothing more than a shadow that had lost its roots. “Healing Land.Journey” is a…
A visual meditation on transformation – the silent passage between what dissolves and what begins. This work arises from a state of in-between, where identity shifts, time slows, and perception expands. It is an exploration of transition, vulnerability, and the quiet power of becoming. Photos were taken in estuaries near Poulgorm beach, Fenith and Cappagh…
Outset Gallery Galway, Ireland November, 2025 – January, 2026
Form Gallery, Galerie Joseph Paris, France November, 2025
Recently I heard one phrase that really touched my heart – ‘glorious uncertainty’. Today, flying over the estuary at low tide, I watched how everything changes so fast, but there is such beauty in it.
Daria fled Mariupol under occupation. She left not knowing what was ahead – only what was being left behind. War, she says, makes you forget who you are. You become a victim, a fighter, a refugee. Anything but a person. “NATURE DOESN’T ASK WHERE YOU ARE FROM. IT WRAPS AROUND YOU AND SAYS: YOU ARE…
Tanya runs through the Botanical Garden every week. She has done this through every season, including winter. What she notices now is different from before — not the running itself, but what the garden shows her: how a season shifts, how a flower appears and disappears, how life moves in circles whether or not we…
When Natalia’s home in Dmytrivka fell under occupation, the hardest part was not the shock itself, but the collapse of any sense of a safe place. “NOT IN MY COUNTRY, NOT IN MY OWN HOME. I COULDN’T UNDERSTAND WHERE THAT SAFE PLACE WAS. IT WAS SO DIFFICULT TO FIND IT WITHIN MYSELF.” This search for…
