Projects
Nature and garbage
In our daily lives we produce a huge amount of waste. These are packaging materials, wrapping materials, packaging containers, glass, objects made of metal and plastic. Recycling will solve the problem of waste. To survive in the future, we need to reconsider our habits, abandon excessive consumption, implement smart production of things and protect the environment for future generations. By weaving together organic and artificial elements, I hope to challenge deeper reflections on humanity’s role in creating a more sustainable relationship with the environment.
Project “Nature and Garbage” includes three interconnected series:
– series “Nature and Garbage”, 12 digital photography
– series “Trace”, 27 cyanotype prints,
– series “Creativity”, 17 collages
Series “Nature and Garbage”. The organic versus the artificial. How do we find balance and build a meaningful, high-quality life?
By creating cyanotype prints, with the same garbage as still life, I provoke thinking about what trace we leave for the future generations. Anna Atkins, who used cyanotype for her work, left us a catalog of botanical illustrations. These cyanotypes are an allegory of what we are leaving for future generations.
By creating collages with the same garbage I transforming trash into an artistic medium, I reveal its hidden texture, form, and chromatic potential. I deliberately reject the somber aesthetic of the landfill, choosing instead to integrate these discards into highly composed and aesthetic arrangements. The vibrant colours and organic interaction of shapes turn discarded items into compelling objects of attention.
Through these compositions, I invite the viewer to question the very notion of “trash” and realize that every object holds the potential for transformation and a second life.
As an artist from Ukraine, my work would be incomplete without addressing the ecological and humanitarian consequences of the war. Through the concluding photograph of the series, I emphasize that war inflicts not only human casualties but also ecocide—the systematic destruction of the environment.
In the series “Nature and Garbage” I demonstrate the critical importance of protecting the environment. Today, the ecocide and destruction caused by russia, a terrorist state that has unleashed war, can lead to dire consequences not only in Ukraine, but also negatively affect the global ecology as a whole.
