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  <!--saved-->  2024_Ink_GoldLeaf_Canvasr_Doll _40"x30"

$5,000.00

<!--saved--> opens this sequence as a visual invocation of digital sanctity—marking a pivotal shift in the artist’s practice, where sculptural symbolism merges with painting to explore the commodification of safety, belief, and emotional legibility in the algorithmic age.

<!--saved--> is a mixed-media sculpture and painting that interrogates the commodification of emotional life through data extraction. A golden baby, pierced with a charging cord and suspended in front of a gilded halo, echoes religious iconography while being surrounded by layers of Python-like code instructing the collection and saving of “emotional,” “moral,” and “belief” data. Below it, three large emojis—happy, crying, and laughing-while-crying—reference algorithmically recognized facial expressions, emphasizing the reduction of complex emotional states into machine-readable symbols. The background code loops around the viewer, embedding references to the Trolley Problem and belief systems, turning moral and spiritual dilemmas into quantifiable datasets. The infant figure is both divine and monitored—an icon of the human soul reimagined as a data point. Through this work, artist questions what is truly “saved”: the data or the human behind it, and whether AI trained on our feelings can ever comprehend the sacred weight of being.

  <!--oracle_of_delfi-->  2022_Ink_GoldLeaf_ClayBoard_72"x48"x2"

$15,000.00

The next three paintings—<!--oracle_of_delfi-->, <!--strong_woman_tender_wounds-->, and <!--woman_with_big_heart-->—are deeply personal works shaped by the artist’s experience as a Ukrainian during the war, reflecting confusion and isolation, followed by trauma, loss, and the burden of resilience.

<!--oracle_of_delfi--> captures the disorientation, solitude, and emotional fragmentation of contemporary life shaped by technological dependence. The central figure—ambiguous in form and gesture—points in multiple directions, its hollow expression and contorted arms echoing the confusion of one who searches for guidance but receives only loops of suggestion. Inside its body, layered silhouettes and disjointed facial expressions suggest a fractured self, a composite of past experiences and unresolved longings. Surrounding the figure is a field of chatbot-like text, simulating casual digital conversation, filled with scripted phrases like “how do you do?” and “sorry to hear that,” drained of emotional weight. At the lower left, two ghostlike figures stand in isolation—tearful, suspended in a pale void—marking the limits of AI’s capacity to respond to real grief or need. The work’s title, referencing the ancient Oracle of Delphi, draws a parallel between the timeless human desire for certainty and the modern compulsion to extract answers from algorithmic systems. But unlike the divine ambiguity of ancient prophecy, the chatbot’s emptiness offers no spiritual depth—only a mirror of our queries, stripped of meaning. This painting becomes a reflection on how the human search for connection, affirmation, and direction is rerouted through tools that promise conversation but deliver calculation.

  <!--strong_woman_tender_wounds-->  2022_Ink_GoldLeaf_ClayBoard_Paper_Toy _72"x48"x2"

$15,000.00

<!--strong_woman_tender_wounds--> is a mixed-media painting and sculptural assemblage that confronts the emotional and physical toll embedded in societal ideals of female resilience. A faceless, nude figure stands against a textured field inscribed with the repeated phrases “strong_woman” and “tender_wounds,” evoking the contradictory pressures placed on women to endure suffering while concealing it. The figure’s face is replaced with stacked emoji masks—one tearful, one neutral—highlighting the performance of emotional legibility in the age of digital expression. Deep gashes cut through the body, each wound filled with gold, referencing kintsugi and the commodification of pain. Suspended from the belly button is a small toy dangling on a thread like an umbilical cord—part talisman, part trauma relic—symbolizing a child once present, now absent, and the fragility of maternal memory. Through this visceral image, artist asks what it truly means to be “strong” when strength is demanded at the cost of personal loss, invisibility, and unacknowledged grief.

   <!--woman_with_big_heart-->  2023_Ink_GoldLeaf_ClayBoard_72"x48"x2"

$15,000.00 

In <!--woman_with_big_heart-->, the female body becomes a site of algorithmic evaluation—measured, fractured, and exposed—where resilience, trauma, and pain tolerance are quantified by code in a chilling reflection of data-driven empathy.

<!--woman_with_big_heart--> explores how female resilience—particularly within motherhood—is measured, aestheticized, and commodified through systems of algorithmic logic. The elongated female figure is marked by deep fractures, repaired with gold in reference to kintsugi—the Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with precious metal. Here, however, the gold seams do not symbolize healing, but rather the forced glorification of endurance and the expectation that pain be transformed into strength. Her exposed heart, anatomically rendered and embedded with cast aluminum, suggests an organ that has been hardened by repetition and extraction. Across the painted surface, a Python-like algorithm calculates “resilience_score,” “trauma_concealment_score,” and “pain_tolerance_score,” reducing intimate emotional histories to ranked variables. A real measuring square is affixed to the composition, reinforcing the urge to quantify and select the “most resilient” woman. Yet in the lower left corner, a personal rupture appears: a small glass jar, partially filled with gold, contains a childhood note from the artist’s daughter, adorned with a hand-drawn heart and the words “happy early birthday.” This tender artifact—preserved like a relic—becomes the emotional core of the work, embodying memory, care, and maternal love. By setting this intimate gesture against the dehumanizing frame of data, code, and measurement, the work questions what is sacrificed when real pain and affection are subsumed by systems that seek only to optimize, extract, and rank.

 <!--ignorance_is_freedom--->  2021_Ink_GoldLeaf_ClayBoard_72"x48"x2"

$15,000.00

Shifting from personal to ideological, <!--ignorance_is_freedom--> initiates a new phase—confronting how control systems, from state propaganda to digital capitalism, script obedience through convenience and curated ignorance.

<!--ignorance_is_freedom--> draws its title from Orwell’s 1984 and presents a densely layered critique of converging ideologies in the age of algorithmic dominance. At the center of the composition, a torn red flag merges symbols of Soviet communism, corporate tech empires (Google and Amazon), and a reimagined Christ figure—collapsing political, economic, and religious belief systems into a unified icon of control. The Russian propaganda slogan “ДА ЗДРАВСТВУЕТ” (Long Live) appears in bold red letters, referencing the familiar visual language of Soviet-era obedience and celebration, now co-opted into a matrix of digital consumerism. Surrounding this central motif, fragments of JavaScript code related to data tracking, cookies, and user behavior intersect with slogans and broken phrases like “Ignorance Is Freedom,” glitched and interrupted across the surface. The background, densely patterned with hand-drawn emoji-like faces and whimsical details such as carrots, evokes the absurdity and passivity cultivated by constant algorithmic stimulation. Patches of exposed underlayers and gilded erosion suggest deliberate erasure, censorship, or revisionism. By weaving together communist iconography, corporate branding, and the hidden logic of surveillance capitalism, the work confronts the viewer with a central question: Have we mistaken technological convenience for freedom, and in doing so, chosen ignorance in exchange for comfort and control?

 <!--in_Cookies_we_trust-->  2021_Ink_GoldLeaf_ClayBoard_72"x48"x2"

$15,000.00

While <!--ignorance_is_freedom--> exposes overt ideological control, <!--in_cookies_we_trust--> turns to its subtler counterpart—surveillance masked as consent, where digital tracking becomes the quiet ritual of everyday life.

<!--in_cookies_we_trust--> reflects on the entangled relationship between surveillance, belief, and technological infrastructure. Against a densely worked amber background, scattered with hand-drawn images of actual cookies, the work merges programming code with symbolic language to expose the mechanisms of digital tracking. At the center, a JavaScript function for extracting browser cookies becomes a visual prayer—repeated, mechanical, and quietly invasive. The title phrase, "in Cookies we trust," appropriates religious rhetoric, while Hebrew words running vertically refer to roots shared by “followers” and “surveillance,” echoing the biblical Jacob. This etymological link underscores the ideological nature of our compliance, drawing parallels between faith and algorithmic dependence. The amber surface is inscribed with emoji-like expressions, obsessive markings, and sketched figures, blurring the line between playful interface and quiet control. Through this fusion of code, symbolism, and script, the painting examines how human trust is absorbed into systems designed to watch, predict, and guide behavior—suggesting that the modern digital subject is both believer and product in a quietly totalizing logic.

Artifact  <!--anxiety_driven-->  2021_Ink_GoldLeaf_ClayBoard_72"x48"x2" 

<!--anxiety_driven-->, the first painting in the AI_Augmented_Iconography concept—where digital worship, sacred iconography, and algorithmic overwhelm converge in a densely coded vision of spiritual disorientation and emotional overload.

<!--anxiety_driven--> immerses the viewer in a saturated red field where code snippets, emoji sequences, and religious iconography converge in a frantic, devotional digital litany. At its center, a cartoonish figure in the pose of a Byzantine Christ raises a hand in a gesture of blessing, hashtag and thumbs-up replacing traditional sacred symbols—suggesting social approval has supplanted divine grace. Embedded among these elements are Egyptian figures from the Book of the Dead, ancient scripts, and emoji faces locked in loops of expressive repetition, further underscoring a culture where attention is currency and data is doctrine. The composition, dense and relentless, evokes the breathless tempo of scrolling through content—both divine and meaningless—while the background, coded in crimson, signals the psychological toll of immersion in algorithmic worship. <!--anxiety_driven--> renders the sacred and profane indistinguishable, capturing the emotional dissonance of contemporary existence shaped by digital reverence, overstimulation, and existential uncertainty.

FROM THE AUGMENTED ICONOGRAPHY CONCEPT WRITING:

Historical Note
Anxiety was the most common feeling the righteous Followers of SocialMedia experienced. It was attributed not only to desire and pressure to succeed, but also to project at all times the “right image”, the standards of which were constantly shifting. You might agree that it could be a valid reason for anxiety. At first glance it appears that <!--Anxiety_Driven--> is created in a state of anxiety, but if you look closely, the main image in the background is Instagram Follow button code. We could argue that it might suggest that the act of the following was driven by anxiety, thus turning anxiety into a very profitable tool.