My works focus on toy figures, childhood favorites, and pop culture heroes. The multitude of colors, the meticulously crafted forms that blend into one another, and the rough edges are not signs of technical inaccuracy — for me, they are responses to an uncertain and changing reality expressed in the language of painting. I do not want to illustrate, but rather to condense the feeling that today’s young generation — myself included — experiences in a constantly changing, often incomprehensible social environment. The chaos that appears in the images is not accidental: it is consciously constructed instability. This allows me to show the state in which my identity and the identity of my generation are being formed.
For me, the motif of play represents both refuge and question marks. I constantly ask myself: who is it that provides protection? What does it mean to be a hero today in a country where the ties between generations are increasingly disappearing? I consciously draw on the iconography of my childhood, but not out of nostalgia—rather, to find new meanings in it. I don’t want to reconstruct the past, but to reinterpret it: the heroes and stuffed animals that once offered comfort are now, for me, carriers of coded psychological and social patterns.
The visual cavalcade I create — at once disturbing and appealing — is intended to speak to today’s viewers, especially those who are sensitive to social uncertainty. My painting does not offer comfortable answers — but it is precisely through this that I try to open up space for inner movements and questions. I want viewers to examine not only who they were as children, but also what they can become in a world where play is no longer just entertainment, but perhaps one of the last places where identity can take hold.