Combining realities

I’m Anastasia, an artist from St. Petersburg, although I grew up in the south — among fields, mountains, and the sea. Probably, it was there that I began to notice the interplay of light and shadow, the richness of colors, and the beauty of movement. But my inner teenager fell in love with the gloomy city of St. Petersburg. It was here that I enrolled in university, and a couple of years later I became a programmer: clear structure, architecturally complex applications and systems. Creativity was put on hold. Now I know: both ways of thinking can coexist in harmony. I'm no longer trying to choose between logic and feelings: I'm working at the intersection of realism and symbolism. I like to search for meanings, passing reality through my own experience: memories, thoughts and feelings. I'm not so much showing the world as exploring myself in it. And I want the viewer to find a little more than just “beautiful” in my work.