Who am I? Why am I here?

These questions have been in my mind throughout my life. From the very beginning, I understood that the world around me was vast, diverse, and impossible to fully comprehend. Time and again, my attempts to grasp it intellectually failed. Then, one day, the answer came from an unexpected direction. A camera came into my hands, followed by canvases and brushes, and everything changed.

Art entered my life. Classical painting and contemporary art, photographs of unique places and events, different ways of visualizing and understanding the world through photography and painting.

In my search for my place in the world, I began to look deeper, searching for details, nuances and textures, the things that usually go unnoticed.

Over time, I came to understand that every photograph and every canvas carries hidden meanings. Searching for these meanings became the purpose of my creative life. As I began to look more closely at the world around me, I started noticing things I had never seen before.

The world is part of us, and we are part of the world. Natural elements are always intertwined with our surroundings and fill us with energy.

Nature around us does not confine us to any particular framework. Within it, anything is possible, any experience any work of art.

Humans often try to separate themselves from nature, surrounding themselves with glass and concrete and forgetting that everything created by human hands ultimately comes from nature and remains a part of it.

My aim is to explore this subtle boundary between the natural and the human-made, without setting them against each other. Through photography and painting, I draw attention to materials, forms, traces of human presence, and the relationships between them.

In a world that is becoming increasingly faster, louder, and more saturated, my art creates a space for slowing down and looking attentively, an opportunity to pause, feel and once again notice our connection with the world around us.

Contact: kr.okuneva@gmail.com