By tradition, I summarize the results in each passing year. They concern not only creativity, work, but also life in general.
The year 2023 began quite calmly, I would even say sluggishly.
It was like I was in hibernation. I filmed some urban landscapes, studied the remains of neighborhoods in Vologda.
I photographed the street during snowfalls. Everything was quite ordinary and in a very slow rhythm.
I even wanted to feel something in myself, but nothing special was happening.
I began to wake up towards the end of winter, when I visited Ustyuzhna, and then walked around the night Cherepovets.
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Urban spaces at that time were almost all explored.
I had to move further and further away from home to find something new. So in Ogarkovo, I accidentally stumbled upon the dugouts and caught just an incredible charge of emotions.
I've photographed vegetable stores before, but never before have I experienced so many different sensations from them as this time.
At times, I would pay attention to my favorite spots in street scenes.
Over the past two years, this has become a key creative technique for me.
I have been delving into the physics of the frame for a long time, and not into its plot or meaning.
As soon as I finished shooting all the spaces that enter the city limits, I began to study suburban villages.
And more and more often he began to pay attention to the dugouts. That's where it started...
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One day I caught some kind of super-magical state, so cosmic that it was like I fell in love.
I felt so good, it was like I was born again and began to look at everything from a different angle.
At this stage, the metaphysics of photography came into full force.
It became important to me my inner state and why I experience it differently in different places.
I began to study it. Of course, there were business trips to different places, including St. Petersburg.
There were also abandoned villages.
I've documented a lot of them too.
I was also able to visit one of the hard-to-reach places that I couldn't get to for a long time - the village of Davydovskaya.
About postcard photography, I can only say that it always goes in parallel with all other genres, but it has very little to do with metaphysics.
And so. One state of soul eventually replaced another.
It is calmer, less violent, and developed very slowly and smoothly.
And then it hit me.
I didn't expect such a trick.
Meanwhile, I began to study not only the states and various kinds of memory code, but how it affects the consciousness of other people.
And I even began to show some results.
I myself have been feeling something for a long time or not from different pictures.
But other people can also feel my condition through the picture, and it doesn't matter what it shows.
With the arrival of autumn, the dugouts captured almost all my attention, because it was among them that I began to experience various kinds of states of mind.
And a lot of mystical things began to happen.
Well, since the universe needs me to experience and photograph, and then describe it.
In six months, I toured all the villages of the Vologda region and even captured other areas.
I went to a place where there are vegetable storages, as well as yard spaces among apartment buildings.
I have never experienced such emotional swings in my life.
From the wonderful cosmic state of falling in love, to the oppressive depressive.
I don't even know what I want to wish myself in the new year...I probably want to find some kind of harmony, balance and get away from these swings, but I don't want to hibernate anymore.
It's strange, despite everything that happened to me, it was like I started living.
Even if it wasn't always good, and sometimes it even hurt, but it's still better than not feeling anything.
I have never had such an emotionally intense year.
But I want to experience positive emotions many times more than they are now.
I'll make a wish for that.