In 2023, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, exactly 10 years after my father died of lymphoma. Cancer has haunted every generation in my family, claiming the people I love and care about. Light gave way to darkness. During the summer of 2023, I was with my mother, accompanying her through all her chemotherapy courses. In my memories, my mother was always a gentle, beautiful woman, vulnerable to any external changes. The foundation of my work is photographs of my mother taken during this challenging period of treatment. By turning the photo over and processing it, I confront the monster that has taken over my mother's body. I depict this monster in watercolor, where there is a struggle with the medium, and I cannot predict which monster will end up staring back at me from the painting. The series includes monumental works and sketches, as well as depictions of harmful weeds, in which I search for a metaphor for the tentacles of cancer and its grasp. The project is still in progress.

I work in the language of inversion, but I follow and use the main tone - shades of blue. In medicine, there is the concept of “Code Blue,” which indicates an urgent need for resuscitation care.