Series 2019:
Portraits of strangers

A series of colored lithographs "Portraits of Strangers" is an unusual story about people with an unusual perception of the world. We are all used to the idea that black is black and that right is always only on the right side. And how do those for whom such basic things are not an axiom celebrate themselves? What if you cannot put your nose, mouth and eyes into a single image, because for you these are only scattered geometric shapes... And you recognize your friend only by the mustache! And our society is so used to instantly giving out labels and blaming for being different. One day I picked up a book by Oliver Sacks, the world famous British neurologist and neuropsychologist "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," and was struck down. He describes the most interesting clinical stories of our patients in simple and lively language. This is something unimaginable, you are constantly in the full feeling that this is something from the Wells or the Strugatskys, all this is fantasy, maybe based on scientific works. But no! This is a reality that we do not see, or we prefer not to see. I thought for a long time and tried to imagine myself in their place. Here are some of these attempts and resulted in a series of graphic sheets. Incompatible aggressive colors and the most simple and clear forms call to pay attention to the conflict, a certain painfulness of what is happening.