Mariia Kozhukhar

The play between shadow and light creates bizarre patterns of perception.
The path of gentle attention and exploration.
Each of my depths has its own face and its own message.
Arriving in the present moment creates enough space for any state, living, experience.
I know that I am here by the flow of my breath, by the impulse - to listen, to look.
Sometimes sensations fill and absorb. The intensity of colors, shapes, invitations.
Sometimes they are like a tiny pearl that I carry with awe and tenderness.
I'm here to accept or refuse.
I'm here to choose and make a move. Or let things happen without interfering.
I'm here.
Enough music to move.
Enough silence to remain still.
Closer to the surface, I swallow the warm water of life.
Closer to the bottom, I allow the cool darkness to cleanse me.
Hello depth.
You are the way of my soul.

What would you fit into one square meter?
A chair, a rich bouquet, a musical instrument?
Or, perhaps, if you could embrace yourself… Would you fit there with all your dreams, pains, beauty, and madness?
This is a study of the imperfect personal boundlessness confined by one square meter. The perception of the human body through the lens of Eastern philosophy, symbolism and mythology.
An interfusion of a delicate and concise visual language with the pure and deep statement.