Resilience is a series of paintings that explores and celebrate the strength, identity, and persistence required by immigrants, and especially women. With this series, I hope to inspire positive change, promote understanding, and encourage a deeper appreciation for the sources of strength that come with embracing a new home and cultural identity.

Living in Iowa and Nebraska, I am beginning to integrate the landscape of the Midwest into my work, where trees emerge as a central motif, symbolizing renewal and rooting with my new homeland. One of the questions I'm currently researching: How does a Ukrainian sensibility interact with the America to create a new perspective? How my Ukrainian eyes perceive Middle America?

War is a shock that facilitates self-discovery through suffering. By revealing hidden weaknesses, hidden strengths arise. Therefore this project focuses not only on the pain of the present, but also hope for the future – and documents that process. Within this framework, I seek to record my reflections as an artist who was forced to leave Ukraine, but remains inextricably linked with the ordeal of my country through a shared artery of pain. Triptych Altar of Hope combines paintings based on actual news photograps of shelling of Ukrainian cities.

The Age of Melancholy explored the forces of increasing individualism coupled with the loss of spiritual resources, creating an existential vacuum that has become a large-scale phenomenon, exacerbated by the pandemic. In Ukraine, prior to the present conflict, this state was intensified by a sense of constant pending threat - an oppressive tense uncertainty.
In my work, building imagery through layers of intertwined lines created a kinetic effect of uncertainty and instability as well as unity and immersion as I searched to integrate polarities such as hope and despair among a shifting multitude of immeasurable and elusive horizons.