<p>I am a photographer! I also shoot music videos, dance Krump and hit tattoos. In my photographs, it is important for me to emphasize the image, what atmosphere it creates, and what associations it can evoke.</p><p>I do all my work on freestyle, from the beginning of painting models to post processing. I make art every day and the only thing that helps me to push off is feelings. I give names to my works only based on what I felt myself during the period of work. And now it is difficult to remember the whole history of one work, but the sensations remain!</p>

This is the second episode of my shoot, the first being Silence. As the first art piece (Silence) foreshadowed - the storm happened. Unfortunately, I fail to recollect what the incident was as it has slipped from my memory.

Wrath

Silence and Wrath are a pair. These two works are essentially inter-related, because they both are from the same shoot and done concurrently. This is an example of the fact that with each shot I do, there are 2-3 different episodes. One shoot, one image, but different processing and emotion.

This was the first episode, at a time where there was some kind of harmony in life, without anxiety and fuss, a strange calmness, an intuitive feeling that it was a calm before a storm.

Silence

This work came out very spontaneously. I had an order for a video clip for one dancer. When we finished, we still had a little time left until our slot in the rented studio expired. I decided to stay on and offered a photo. In the original, the frame is empty. However, at that time, due to my very tight schedule I tried to fill all my time with some projects. Hence the name and the visualization reminds me of sand, the sand being a symbolic representation of time, that which fills the void!

Sand

This piece is a reference to my earlier piece ‘Exile’ wherein I represent the break-up of a relationship through vivid and edgy imagery.

However, in this piece, I aim to convey the exact opposite- the mending of a broken relationship. I have used the same shades of green to allude to ‘Exile’ but have arranged the model in such a way that he appears to be merging into one entity, with his body parts echoing as they mend together, similar to the mending of a relationship.

Merger

In this piece, I had initially decided to shoot some impromptu shots with my friends on a lark. Nevertheless, upon further experimentation with glass and geometry, I never expected it to result in such edgy works that would express my inner persona- a young and mysterious Russian man ready to take on the world.

Inwardly

In my works, I like to photograph models and many of my models happen to be dancers.

This work is among my newer ones in terms of editing. I finished it approximately a year ago. The model in this picture is a street dancer who is around 45 years of age. While he may be old, his form is that of young man that moves beautifully while he dances. This greatly intrigued me and I decided to emphasise his body with the use of the bold violets and purples.

Interim

In this piece, I aim to convey the negative feelings one goes through during the break up of a relationship. The green colour used symbolizes the toxicity that one encounters when experiencing peripeteia while exiting a dysfunctional relationship. To express that feeling even further, I have used snake- like figures and a subtle red colour to allude to the story of Adam and Eve, where Eve entices Adam into eating a poisonous apple that eventually kills them both.

In a nutshell, I am portraying one in “exile” from one’s partner.

Scarecrow Kaa (Kulikov Andrey Alekseevich)

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