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For many years, invisibility existed in my inner world as a state of contraction — a way of holding sensitivity, intensity, vulnerability, tenderness, and creative force beneath protective inner layers. These works developed alongside a gradual internal shift, where hidden parts of the self slowly became capable of occupying space more openly and fully.
Throughout the series, light appears in changing forms: submerged beneath water, softened by distance, restrained by translucent membranes, dissolving into depth, rising through roots, or unfolding through breathing fields of color and delicate flowering structures. This light is not symbolic in a decorative sense. It carries the presence of the self: inner vitality, emotional depth, sensuality, softness, fear, strength, and creative identity gradually becoming visible to the world and to myself.
The earlier works inhabit submerged and compressed spaces. Light exists as something concentrated and hidden, almost disappearing into surrounding silence. Gradually, it begins to seep outward. Boundaries soften. The submerged forms rise upward, becoming more embodied, open, and calm. Over time, the movement within the series shifts from emergence into presence: the light no longer struggles to appear, but learns to exist fully without retreating back into invisibility.
Water, air, night, roots, membranes, flowers, and organic forms return throughout the series not as fixed symbols, but as emotional states and inner landscapes. The body dissolves into atmosphere; psychological experience becomes texture, rhythm, density, breath, and color. Even the darker layers of the work: fear, anxiety, protective instincts, old wounds — remain present within the compositions. They are not erased, but absorbed into the structure of the inner world itself.
As the series evolves, presence becomes quieter, softer, and more grounded. Not an act of performance or self-assertion, but a way of fully inhabiting one’s own depth, tenderness, sensuality, and inner complexity without the need to disappear.
Meditation on invisibility.
A way of surviving, protecting, and containing what felt too vulnerable to fully emerge.
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Brimming Beneath
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emergence
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held within
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gentle beast
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seeping
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soft rise
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undercurrent
katya schukina 2026
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