One of the most creative aspects of any art for me is looking for (and finding) new uses for usual objects. A hair rubber band becomes a marker for knitting, a hairpin starts pinning the row on the embroidery design, a needle and a crochet hook become sculpting instruments and glass bottles make...
“Yokarny Babai” is a kind of mild swearing in Russian. “Babai” is Boogeyman. The first word is absolutely unique to this expression. I decided to make one. I looked it up and one of the theories stated that “Yokarny” comes from “yakorny” – an...
“And I went along the ledge, face to the wall…” There is a line in the play “Happy Underdog” – “Счастливый неудачник” (in Russian the name has nothing to do with dogs, it’s just funny how it all worked out in...