Photography for me is a tool that helps me speak my own language. I like its obedience and clarity when I need it and vice versa the camera can become a co-creator, helping to choose the moment (as is the case with the self-timer, for example). Each photo is a search for an answer or a question on the contrary. This is a work with feelings, combinations of colours, shapes and randomness.

It changes with me, as with a living person. Each of my projects is essentially an attempt to penetrate deeper into the spheres that excite me, the opportunity to comprehend them and open them from other sides. For me, the feeling that the photograph conveys and the aftertaste that remains of it became more important.

Self-portrait for me is a way of self-knowledge and the ability to save energy. I love the silence and shoot quite intuitively. I have always preferred to work with subtle matters, but now the main topic of my research is my own body, its vulnerability, power and mortality.

I am attracted by the possibility of storytelling, exploring and recognising myself in the process of creation. What I do is inseparable from how I live. When starting this or that project, I have a question that worries me very much, to which I cannot find an answer in any other way. This is my starting point and place of power.

My photographs are how I feel, it's not about an artist, but a person. This is what I had inside, but found a way to express, at least partially. This is valuable for me.

My understanding of femininity has changed and continues to change. Now I have come to the conclusion that femininity does not belong to any of the genders, it is just energy that may or may not manifest itself through people.
For example, the idea of filling the space and connecting everything with everything is very close to me. That is, when we change something in the outside world, we change inside and vice versa. I am also inspired by the idea of the absence of boundaries between anything, everything smoothly flows into everything else, I smoothly flow into the sunlight. This is my inspiration and the unlimited possibility of knowing the world.

I just try and see what is close to me and what whips the energy away. I realised that my art is in action, in a certain gesture. And, in fact, it doesn't matter to me what exactly this gesture would be visually displayed. I want each photo to be a challenge to myself and everyday life, an attempt to rise above all this and to comprehend the real value of things, time, people nearby and myself.

For most of our lives, we are surrounded by the most ordinary things to which we are accustomed and know why they are needed. Sometimes it is interesting for me to look at them through the eyes of an alien and to get to know them again directly, without intermediaries. I think this is like training to interact with the world as a whole, not from a state of omniscience, but from surprise and listening.

Basically, I'm starting from the background, from a certain area, which is close to me in spirit. Then I fill it with people, objects, colours, shapes, trying to feel the sufficiency and the idea itself. Now I'm working on a series of self-portraits in my home studio with a white background and it's a challenge for me.

It's just a matter of comfort and honesty. And I like to go for a visit.

The project is working on an idea that I wrote about earlier about the absence of borders. Plus, any person carries their story on their face, which would be an additional layer for me, which I did not want to focus on.

I can tell you about a photo with an arm and a chair. I came to Istanbul for a workshop with Helen van Meene and used Airbnb for the first time to find a room. Unfortunately, I succumbed to the persuasion of the hostess and made a reservation without using the service. And so, I arrive after the flight, go into my room, and find a hole in the wall, which was not indicated in the photo. I had to hang it with a sheet.

I am very happy when my work travels around the world, especially during a pandemic it is joyful. Each project begins to live its own life, even before its completion, as a separate creature, and this is amazing. I feel like a guide, accompanying the project to a certain stage, and then he goes his own way. I'm just glad I have this opportunity and I have more stories to tell.