TELL ME I’M NOT HURRY? / Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, 2023 / Tonight we slept together with Lesha and I had a dream about him! We were driving in an open-top car and he asked me: am I hurry? We were driving under an overpass or bridge in a city that looked like New York.

THE DEATH / Oil on wood, 80 x 75 cm, 2023 / Today I dreamed that my children and I are alone in the village. I am standing on the porch and I see a hairy crazy man walking very close to the house, making strange movements with his legs and arms. Dad said he’d seen him before and he wasn’t dangerous. I was still very frightened by him. I see the creature again. I try to run closer and attack, but it’s hard in a dream, so I yell: go away go away go away. The man stops, stares quietly, and runs frightened behind the house. I continue to yell loudly. My voice doesn’t listen to me, my jaw is clenched with anger and fear. Even though he’s gone, I still fear he’s out there somewhere. I wake up startled, my hands shaking, and I see something dark and large in the doorway. It’s death in a black robe. She stands motionless. One of her eyes sparkles like a firefly or diamond with a green light. When I turned on the music on my iPhone, death disappeared. I texted my family to see if they had arrived at the cottage and asked if everything was okay. Everything’s fine. I’m always afraid that these are prophetic dreams.

LOVERS / Oil, sauce on wood, 75 x 70 cm, 2021 / Amphitheater or stadium, all seats are occupied. Two men enter, rifles in hand, shouting, they can be seen from a high pedestal.  Many people died, and we couldn’t save them. How sad and hopeless it was. Fortunately, he supports me. Such a calm, loyal, understanding and affectionate friend. And there’s the sea in the distance.

CLOWNS IN THE SUBWAY / Oil, sauce on plywood, 60 x 45 cm, 2020 / I was wearing a poonpong hat and a large man casually touched it, smiling good-naturedly when I turned around.

WOLF / Oil on canvas, 30 x 20 cm, 2020 / She was a member of the group. Everyone even heard her.

OUR JOURNEY TO THE SEA / Oil on canvas, 150 x 110 cm, 2023 / Today I had a dream about Ramil and I went on a trip to a place where there are mountains, snow, estates and a bay with a warm blue sea. We traveled by train alone. To our left was a bay with a blue sea. It seemed that the water was very close.  My brother was very interested in looking there.

PEARL DOG / Oil, sauce on wood, 75 x 70 cm, 2021 / A walk in the woods, mother-of-pearl dogI’ll be honest with you - he thinks you’re crazy.Faina staggered backward, barely touching the floor with her hands. Like a wild cat, wary, hypnotizing with her eyes.

MERAB / Oil, sauce on plywood, 60 x 45 cm, 2020 / Alexander Piatygorsky threw garbage in the compost and showed me how much fun it is to run away.

ANYA AND LESHA / Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, 2020 / I’m going to jump. Come on, jump. Why don’t you?

TABULA RASA / Oil on plywood, 60 x 45 cm, 2020 / This is a beautiful combination of sounds, and it also predicts Nastya’s moves from here to the next doorway.

FAINA / Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm, 2023 / I dreamt of Renata Litvinova as Faina Mikhailovna, the heroine of the movie Goddess: How I Fell in Love. She begs me to bring her back from the world of the dead to the world of the living. She hides behind the bed, flirts and says: “Well, come on, you go down there, find me, and bring me back. Please, please, please, please, please!” And I don’t want to and I chase her away, “Go away, go away, go away!” It was hard to speak through gritted teeth, but the spell worked. Faina staggered backward, barely touching the floor with her hands. Like a wild cat, wary, hypnotizing with her eyes.

I’M GOOD AT HIDING / Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm, 2024 / Today I had a dream about a chase in St. Petersburg. I find shelter in the building of an institute for the study of geodesy. I run through pink gothic corridors and stairs upstairs. On the top floor is the girls’ bathroom (like in Harry Potter). A sense of danger and fear. I see a window high above the radiator, an old window to the ceiling. It opens easily thanks to a comfortable wooden handle. Birds chirping and wind rushing into the room (my French teacher used to say: “The main thing to do when you hit a snag during an exam is not to stand frozen, but to do something. For example, go to the window and open it.” At home, I often open the window in the kitchen. To do this, I have to climb up on a chair. I heard birds recently, during the warming season.

THE BIRD AND THE HUNTER / Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, 2024 / I had a dream about floating above the ground and see far below a green field and a lake (Petushki, Vasilki village, in my childhood my grandfather used to take me fishing on this lake, I was afraid to touch the caught perch and pike). Very warm and sunny in summer. Next to me, at the same level, a hunter is hovering. Together we are stalking a black bird, an eagle or a hawk (in summer at the dacha I often noticed how they circle in the sky in search of prey). I beg the hunter not to kill the bird, but he fires his bow. At that moment I start to lose my balance and I am pulled to fall from a great height to the ground.

ADDICTION AND WAITING / Oil, sauce on wood, 90 x 75 cm, 2021 / Sasha is living in St.Petersburg. His girlfriend is pouring milk into a glass.

SUMMER COUNTRY / Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm, 2020 / I sing to my grandparents.