BIO

My art began where words failed me—in the silence of a Russian boarding school. Images became my first language: a tool for escape and self-exploration. I didn't find my voice by talking, but by watching. The camera became both a shield and my most truthful way to connect.

 

This history imprinted my vision with a specific literacy: the ability to translate the unspoken narratives held in spaces and bodies. I find beauty in brokenness; I read scars as maps of personal journeys. The struggles with my own emotions and life choices forged in me a hard-won fluency in the most difficult language of all: human complexity.

 

My own path has been anything but straight. I've lived half my life as an immigrant in several countries. Constantly rebuilding myself, I've learned that what others might see as damage—in me, or in the world—is not an end. It is the very substance from which I build.

 

To navigate this complexity, I developed a dual framework: an intense need to intellectualize the human experience and a practical drive to study people—their behaviors and unspoken rules—to navigate social life.

 

This led me to diverse fields. First to finance, which honed my analytical mind, and then fully to visual art. My practice now exists at the intersection of these paths. I use the body, intimacy, and space as precise instruments to translate unspoken narratives.

 

This methodology drew me strongly to explore the topic of sexuality, as its appeal and complexity fascinated me. I view it as a primal, powerful force—one that can be fragile and destructive, yet also profoundly connective. It has become a primary lens through which I examine the mechanics of power, vulnerability, and the human condition.

 

Sometimes I find my own photos "disturbing", but they never leave me numb. My freedom—that costly freedom—lives entirely in my art.