Honeycomb, brass, plywood, LED strip, light filter
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DOCUMENTATION FOR THE EXHIBITION “Skin of the Earth,” International Biennial of Ecological Art, Nizhny Novgorod
May, 2025
Installation, 250 cm × 300 cm × 200 cm
May, 2025
Installation, 250 cm × 300 cm × 200 cm
I was riding the bus, and the sun was on the same line as my eyes on the horizon. Suddenly, I had a feeling: squinting my eyes, I stopped feeling the movement, the fact that I was traveling at speed, and, on the contrary, only objects were moving: the forest, houses, oncoming cars, potholes, the landscape turned into a gray flashing mass of different shapes. At the same time, the sun and I were static, outside of movement, outside of time, and I didn’t need to understand where I was.
The sun—an all-consuming, living spot. At some point, my focus shifted: my senses shut down, my body coordination and self-awareness changed, became unfamiliar, I stopped hearing sounds, only my sight connected me to reality.
This new encounter with the sun is a meaningful catharsis for me, a revelation and a discovery of myself, when the world saw me and I saw it. It feels like falling in love: the world began to spin around us, we stopped, looking at each other. From the perspective of a threshold, entering or exiting a new level, my personal experience with the sun is a transition into awareness, something that brings me back and keeps me grounded.
The sun—an all-consuming, living spot. At some point, my focus shifted: my senses shut down, my body coordination and self-awareness changed, became unfamiliar, I stopped hearing sounds, only my sight connected me to reality.
This new encounter with the sun is a meaningful catharsis for me, a revelation and a discovery of myself, when the world saw me and I saw it. It feels like falling in love: the world began to spin around us, we stopped, looking at each other. From the perspective of a threshold, entering or exiting a new level, my personal experience with the sun is a transition into awareness, something that brings me back and keeps me grounded.
To convey the idea of inner light and warmth, I chose honeycombs through experimentation because, for me, they are a tactile, warm, and living, natural, organic material with texture. Honeycombs interact gently with light, allowing it to pass through and scatter, illuminating the unique pattern created by bees.
These honeycombs are selected from part of a beehive and contain the bees' waste products, wax. In part, wax is a reference to church candles, spiritual practices, and the familiar smell of burning wax.
For me, it is a meditative material: looking through it as if through a filter and inhaling the aroma, you immerse yourself in calmness and tranquility. The material is fragile and requires unity with oneself when working with it.
These honeycombs are selected from part of a beehive and contain the bees' waste products, wax. In part, wax is a reference to church candles, spiritual practices, and the familiar smell of burning wax.
For me, it is a meditative material: looking through it as if through a filter and inhaling the aroma, you immerse yourself in calmness and tranquility. The material is fragile and requires unity with oneself when working with it.
Why honeycombs
This light temperature and color were chosen because the sun is setting and we are inside the source. Being in this particular temperature, midday sun, is comfortable for the eye: you can look at this light for a long time.
Light and color of the sun
Inside each of us there is an unchanging source of warmth and strength. Strength and Light, the inner sun, the human being.
The viewer is conditionally surrounded and totally immersed thanks to the rounded line of the diorama, and the absence of corners gives a certain feeling of infinity, boundlessness, but at the same time, like an embrace.
Form
My story. The sun.
My project is an exploration of the light of the human inner world. Where light works as an awakening to awareness, enlightenment, pause, and turning inward, from doubt to certainty.
The inspiration for the project comes from my personal sensory experiences — moments when encounters with nature became revelations. The viewer is not an observer but a participant: they interact through their senses, living their experience, listening to themselves, and discovering their own inner sun.
The inspiration for the project comes from my personal sensory experiences — moments when encounters with nature became revelations. The viewer is not an observer but a participant: they interact through their senses, living their experience, listening to themselves, and discovering their own inner sun.
The opportunity to see all the collected honeycombs is like seeing the world within the world. Honeycombs are individual little suns that multiply the external sun, thereby creating hundreds of their own personal suns. Using the example of bees, which make honeycombs to fit their heads, I am referring to all of humanity and its inner worlds. The idea is that once inside, the viewer will reflect and look within themselves to find their own sun.
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