P001 → Ice-Bound Memories: Landscapes Left Behind

This series, "Ice-Bound Memories: Landscapes Left Behind," emerged in late 2023, during my second year living in emigration in Tbilisi. Here, snow falls very rarely, and the sun shines almost every day, even in winter months. Although I enjoyed the comfortable weather, my thoughts often drifted far away—back across borders to the snow-covered landscapes I had known for a decade in Moscow and Central Russia.

I found myself captured by images of snow-covered lands and fairy-tale princesses trapped in ice. This duality between my present reality and mental landscape influenced both my palette—colors bright yet cold—and my subject matter, where plants and princesses appear surrounded by frost. Their frozen state creates an ambiguity that doesn't allow us to understand whether they are alive or already dead, much like emotions and memories preserved yet distant when viewed from another country.