Come, see me

A visual journal of 2022

I began the year by making collages representing personal and often ambiguous feelings on current events in my two widely different homelands, Kazakhstan and the US. Searching for scraps, shapes, and colors to capture this range of tangled emotions, I ventured into imagery and narratives from fairy tales and folklore to tell my own story. I found that the familiarity of those characters, grounding and inexhaustible in their interpretation, was the most genuine language to connect with others across international and linguistic borders. This visual journal is an invitation to a conversation between my creative process and myself.