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I was born in Novosibirsk and grew up in a Russian speaking family. I am reticent about my childhood, since mercifully it was slightly different from others - careless, amazing and full of surprising things - childhood of kids surrounded by lovely and attentive parents..... My school years were rather unpleasant, I definitely was taken for a delinquent thank to my intolerable rebellious nature willing to reform everything in the world around me.. |
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that my perspective of the world had been for the first time,
seeing an entirely new and fascinating dimension. His little stone game caused me to think differently about the meaning of many things most importantly he taught me to contemplate simple things. My life changed color after his departure from this earth, - - it's got very dark, since he's gone - 'what gets black, when you take black off it?' - I used to ask myself ridiculously - 'my damn life' was my usual answer .....it was my first great frustration in my life when he left me.. it was new year's eve, there was plenty of dead drunk bustards staggering along the streets, simplifying their enjoyment of life by drinking vodka ... that evening it was snowing and windy.. In the darkness, i was behind reality running up crowded streets, not daring to comprehend that I would never see Black again ..suddenly empty and void .. my throat nearly burst from crying his name .. despair - my multi-colored crushed world....without nights full of flights ..sun not knowing sunset...broken china was all that remained on the floor after the carnival... Then 1 year study at the Physics Department.. then
5 at the Math Department of Saint-Petersburg University - numerous days
with hard brain sheiks and infinite cigarette packets nervy smoked
up while in the queue for exam. .. somewhere within - couple
of years accomplanng with private lessons of painting and composition
given by the kindest woman, I think my new life experience here has
been resulting in hybrids of the mishmash of cultures
and designs found during my travels abroad, in Spain and France in the
last two years.. .. I began to feel a strange attractive importance to every
tiny detail in the environment,
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