Her paintings emerge from memories triggered by sound and vision. Certain musical compositions unlock involuntary memories, drawing her into a state where fragments of recollection rise to the surface unbidden.
She works on burlap, a material rooted in Ukrainian agrarian culture. It is connected to the earth, fertility, and the memory of generations, not simply a surface but a carrier of meaning and history. Her process unites construction and destruction in a dynamic tension: marks undo previous marks while simultaneously creating something new. Figures shift into abstraction or emerge from formlessness. Sometimes paintings become completely abstract, all previous figuration buried beneath.
Through accumulation and erasure, the paintings bridge the past and the present, their multilayered surfaces holding multiple moments in time - much like the human body holds memory. Each return to the past generates new marks, new events on the canvas. Burlap is not a neutral ground but the site where figures are received. Emerging from the meeting of memory and imagination, these figures create another reality in which a maternal line of knowledge is transmitted without words, through touch, through song, through gesture.