The song of the same name was created in 1962 as a kind of children's anthem to the yearning for lasting peace by millions of people. It is considered one of the most popular Soviet children songs.
May there always be sunshine!
May there always be blue skies!
May there always be mummy!
May there always be me!
It is always a choice, even after the choice is made - to love, to hate, to believe, to trust, or to care, or to ignore, or to wait. I continue to choose every day, realising that I know more and more different important and unnecessary details, without them my first decision was initially easier. Yes, I still believe that I have options, and I am acting as if a new choice would be an easy solution if I had to make one…
Dedicated to the value of difference, uniqueness, acceptance, tolerance.
She summoned the devil, saying "let the Devil take him when he is born" (so tired she was of having children) ... and when he was born, she gave him the name Lucas, and he immediately turned into a devil and flew into the steppe through the chimney. The year was 1735.
And there were a huge number of witnesses who faced Him both then and quite recently. They say His head was a horse (possibly a goat, or a dog), cloven hooves (or small paws with claws), huge bat wings (in other sources - wings of a praying mantis), a long snake-like tail, black fluff (someone claims it’s wool), and a wild, blood-curdling scream.
He was the thirteenth (unnecessary) child.
(based on the legends of the Jersey Devil)
Trilobites series were made during the artist’s residency in TYPA Type and Paper museum, Tartu, Estonia in spring 2021.
A flower in a vase is always the past, as if extended in time for several days. This is a life cut short, but one more day it has the right to bloom. It is a thirst for life, hope, longing, wilting. Only as long as the bud is fragrant and pleasing to the eye, only until that day is it allowed to be. Cut, in a vase, looking out the window, to wait and to hope. One more day ...
Dedicated to the artists in quarantine.
The artwork was made after the June 2020 flood in Ukraine. This flood took part in the Carpathian region, more than 5,000 houses in 187 villages were flooded. People we evacuated, but a lot of domestic animals obviously were not. So this is Carpathian Dog, the upper part is dead and floating, the down part is still (forever) trying to survive.
Nothing can be equal. When you cut something into parts, you never get a fair result. Singular parts of anything have a different impact on different objects, emotions, and happenings. Equal divisions of one aspect can lead to unequal divisions of other aspects, and sometimes they completely destroy the other parts. One part can have emotion and soul, another part can be stoic and cold; one part barely fits, and another part is full of air; one part is fossilised and still, and another is alive and noisy. A part on one side does not necessarily hint to what will be on the other side. Despite all of this, all of these parts are the same organism. All are together. All are equally important, all the same size, all connected into one piece.
When I was a child, I used to hear this sometimes. It was short, strict -Don't look!
It was always about something, what I was not prepared for, too stressful for a child, too ugly, like illnesses, death. Don't look, and if you never see it, it doesn't exist.
When I grew up, Don't Look On This transformed into Don't Look On Me. Don't beg, I can't help. I will not help. I can't. Don't look.
In this artwork I used carbon prints from plastic bags, wrapping paper, pieces of ropes, it was also a piece of nice lace with floral ornament and some real fern leaves from the forest.
THE TIME is made of pieces; it falls apart and it attaches wrong parts. It makes memory. It passes by, it flies away, it comes. Its parts are not stable, not connected, flashing. Some of the parts are missing, replaced by other parts, but there are a lot of pieces - you see the object, you remember Times, and when you loose the memory, the pieces- any pieces- those Times disappear.
(Inspired by endless corridors of ghost buildings of Daugavpils Fortress, Latvia)
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THE TIME triptych was created in Mark Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils (Latvia), during the 9th International Latgale Graphic Art Symposium.
The TIME became a part of Mark Rothko Art Centre collection.
50x70 cm, carbon monotype, graphite, ink, paper
50x70 cm, carbon monotype, graphite, ink, paper
2020 Appias Albina solo exhibition at OBMJ exhibition space, Tallinn, Estonia
2019 The International Doll Time exhibition at the Exhibition Centre of the Union of Artists, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
(as a part of 5 Feelings art project, curated by Studio14)
56x76 cm, carbon monotype, graphite, paper
72x84 cm, carbon monotype, graphite on paper
85x100 cm, carbon monotype, graphite, ink, paper