Lyudmila Davydenko

The time of quarantine, pandemic and self-isolation, which lasts at intervals of 2 years, gives rise to thoughts about different states and reactions to external changes that we are unable to control. Not everyone was ready for such changes, neither physically nor morally. Some part of our inner world constantly resist such circumstances, do not want to wait, accept and adapt. However, another part, or another person next to us, behaves wisely, adapts, accepts changes and is prepared for them.

Meanwhile, more and more thoughts are focused on time as such, about its fluidity, about the quiet sadness and calm of the observer of this eternal movement. I have been affected by the quarantine and pandemics as everyone. But I can`t tell that it is a negative experience. In the beginning, it tied me to work at home with other materials, with smaller formats, to remember my old skill of macrame.

After it started dictating plots, ideas and forms of my works. It turns out by itself, because our new reality of quarantine is a topical situation from which you can not to escape. Fewer exhibitions, less publicity, but no less creative work.