Maria Bondarenko

Everything that happens around-war, pandemics, crises, isolation-he passes through himself, through his essence, reproducing his thoughts, his positions and conclusions in artistic images. In the same way, I delve deeper into myself, analyze the changes and try to transform them in my paintings.

One day during quarantine, I walked in a park near the lake and saw this view. How many thoughts appeared then in my head! About life and death, about a person’s daily choices, about isolation and loneliness, about human interaction with nature, and other people, about the inner state of balance. Everything in the world was thought of then. And a week later, I painted a picture.