This project was motivated and informed by my Slavic mixed ethnic and cultural background.

It is grounded in the interwoven histories of rural material culture and post-colonialism in a Central and Eastern European context.

Drawing my research from archives by focusing on rural textiles, floral motifs in these regions have often served as ‘national symbolic guards’. While motifs and colours are apolitical, their context and placement can signify a political meaning.

This has been in service of constructing what is considered ‘pure’ culture - the result of political motivations, the antithesis of what culture and tradition are in real life.

Merging invented motifs with explorations of colour and colour gradation serves as a visual metaphor for the flux of movement and migration, and an outlet for my personal narrative as a migrant.

I have gathered visual information through wandering, catching and recording glimpses of nature in urban centres, then incorporating them within a newly proposed reality utilizing digital and analogue ways of working.