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I was born at midnight of 30th April. This night is called Walpurgis Night – Witches’ Great Sabbath. According to German legends this is the night when witches celebrate before being banished by the holy light of the dawn.
My childhood developed on the outskirts of Chernovtsy, a city that was described by Georg Heintzen as a place “where coachmen quarreled about Karl Krauss, where the sidewalks were swept with rose bouquets and where were more bookstores, than bakeries…” Here people fluently spoke Ukrainian, Romanian, German, Polish and Yiddish… And even if my passport states that I’m a Ukrainian, as any artist I consider myself a cosmopolite.
I have been painting since my early childhood. My neighbors were telling that at the age of three I was “painting” huts in the village (since they were white), as painting colors I used leaves from grapes and flowers… I don’t have any memory of that, but until now I remember my most sacred wish – a road always to be white, like a clean sheet of paper, and fences to be made of colored pencils, so everybody could make their own painting.
I want to tell my future grandchildren the legends of my homeland. I want to sing them the lullabies that my grandmother used to sing, I will dress my granddaughter in embroidered costumes that my mother used to wear when she was a young lady. I will tell them why my grandfather was sentenced to death by Communists and about the nightmares of the Gulag that my father lived through.
Through my paintings, I wish to remind people about eternal truths, which have been forgotten in turmoil of the present time. With my colors, I want to revive our sacred dreams and desires, which faded in our memory. With my lines, I want to make your hearts sing once again…
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