by Ulitina Irina

The project is my attempt to perceive the landscape as a living being. I work with fragments of the natural environment: rocks, sand, water, trees, bare earth and through mirrored symmetry I reveal hidden figures emerging on the edge of recognition. This is how "guardians" are born it is manifestations of the place itself, its memory and tension. "Guardians of Place" exist between abstraction and figure, between document and myth. The project explores the boundary where the landscape ceases to be a backdrop and acquires subjectivity. It is a dialogue with the territory, in which the individual is neither master nor observer, but a guest, attempting to recognize the presence of another. The project invites the viewer to stop, look closely, and ask themselves: what exactly is this space guarding and from what?