This Is Not Only About Art
This space is not only about artworks. It is about finding a moment of stillness in a world that rarely becomes quiet.
Away from the noise of everyday life, endless messages, meetings, obligations and haste, my work begins in silence. Each bead is placed by hand in a slow, contemplative process — often in prayer, always with attention, patience and love.
I create sacred images, people, animals and flowers, yet I do not see these subjects as separate worlds. For me, they belong to one creation. The sacred can be present in the face of a Madonna, in the bond between two animals, in a flower, in light, and in the quiet attention with which we look at them.
Through my work I seek to preserve something increasingly rare: a sense that time can stop. A moment in which there is nothing to answer, nowhere to hurry, and nothing required of us except to be present.
Creating in a Time of War
I live and work in Ukraine.
I create my art during a time of war — amid air-raid alerts, explosions, uncertainty and the visible destruction of places that have been part of ordinary life for decades.
The ruins in these photographs are not a constructed setting. They are part of the reality around me.
Against this background, the slow act of placing thousands of tiny glass beads one by one has acquired another meaning for me. It is an act of concentration when the world is fragmented; an act of creation in the presence of destruction; a way of protecting an inner space in which silence, beauty and faith can continue to exist.
I do not create images of war. I create while living through it.
Perhaps this is why stillness has become so important in my work.
Bead by Bead
My primary medium is bead embroidery.
Working with high-quality Czech and Japanese glass beads, I construct each image gradually, bead by bead. Thousands of individual elements become a single surface in which colour, texture and reflected light constantly interact.
The process is deliberately slow. A work may require weeks or months of concentrated handwork. There is no mechanical reproduction: each piece is made entirely by hand and exists as a one-of-a-kind artwork.
Glass also gives the works a quality that photography cannot fully reproduce. As illumination and the viewer's position change, individual beads catch and release light, subtly transforming the image. The artwork therefore reveals itself gradually and becomes fully present only in physical space.
For me, technique is not separate from meaning. The repetition of thousands of small gestures is itself a form of contemplation.
One World
Sacred figures, people, animals, flowers — the subjects may change, but the source of my work remains the same.
I believe that creation is indivisible, and that the presence of the Divine can be encountered throughout it.
My hope is that each work carries something of the silence in which it was made — and offers the viewer a moment of the same stillness, peace and presence.