There is no one best way to do anything. There are many great ways, as many as there are people, views, and perspectives. Finding a single "right" point of view is impossible. If you think you're right all the time, it's a delusion. That's why when we look for solutions and learn, we become a little "less wrong" with every step.

A labyrinth or a maze is one of the oldest symbols of humanity, dating back to 2500BC. It’s also a motif found across many cultures and continents. A complex man-built structure, resembling both a map of a spiritual dance and the biological structures of the human brain is intriguing and at the same time frightening. In some traditions mazes, shapes as circles represent a meandering but purposeful journey: a journey or path to our own center and back again out into the world. Passing through a maze is always difficult, but if in the end you find what you were looking for, even it’s just a way out is rewarding, as any hero’s journey. One person enters the maze and different one comes out of it, even though the face is the same. ‌The project is fed and informed by the ideas of Carl’s Jung’s collective unconscious and individualisation and Joseph Campbell’s lectures on ancient myths and how they influence our perceptions of the world today. Circles and spheres represent both wholeness, connection and heavy weight of inner contemplations.

All the hopes and dreams, all your achievements and heroic deeds will eventually melt away one bubble at a time. But how blissful, joyous, light, and pleasant are the fractions of moments when you seem to catch them and hold them in your hand like something real and tangible! The series is a collection of fantasies inspired by the lightness and transience of life events.

Life is raw as all forces of nature and often we suffer from expecting it to be something which it is not. In our minds we create all sorts of rules that life is supposed to follow, construct meanings and strive for some obscure perfection. Life however is an experience, not a thought or idea. The Red in the pieces is the life itself, between the black and white, it’s both angry and loving, cozy warm and burning hot, it’s the birth and death. The white is the field and the scene where life occurs. Inspired by the art and practice of Asian calligraphy this project accumulates the artist’s play and study of the state of no-mind or Mushin. Practiced by Zen and Buddhist monks as well as calligraphers and martial artists. This state is referred to as shape without form, direction without direction, action from inaction. Mushin is achieved when a person's mind is free from thoughts and concepts. There is an absence of discursive thought and judgment, so the person is totally free to act and react without hesitation and without disturbance from any thoughts. In state of no-mind you rely only on instinct and intuition. Your actions become raw and unadorned, natural and pure. This state is never lasting however. We do return to our minds, thinking and building concepts. The pieces included in the project are a product of the free flow of the artist’s intuition. The captions and this abstract is the attempts of the artist’s mind to reason with it and explain why and what the intuition was referring to.

Finding your place in life is never easy. There are so many ways to choose from. Should you be normal and simply fit in? Or should you search for your own path, no matter how hard and bumpy it might be? This is the story about growing up and searching for a home. A story about choosing between simply following directions and doing your own thing. A story about sisterhood and supporting each other along the journey.

You’ve been living in this home for my entire life. You seemed to know every single bit of it. Nothing was new, it’s all so familiar. Little did you know that there are basements, attics, rooms and whole gardens there that you simply passed by never suspecting they existed. Now it’s time to illuminate them and bring the light in.

What is it like to see letters and digits in colors? Would you treat your partner or friend differently if her name was of the color that you hate? Would you love Mondays if they were of your favorite color? The Synesthetic Letters project attempts to introduce you to a neurodivergent reality, as seen by someone who has grapheme synesthesia - a type of neurological peculiarity in which various senses are intertwined in a brain, evoking diverse involuntary experiences, in this case, colors of letters, names of people, days and months. It took two synesthetes: visual artist and photographer Dasha Pears and her collaborator, stylist, Jane Kristofferson, three years and 26 photo shoots to complete the alphabet, as they see it. The resulting body of work aims to celebrate diversity and invite viewers to welcome new perspectives into their lives while broadening their outlook and having fun.

It’s interesting how in a world where we have so many things we often want to see less. To focus, to reflect, to breathe. In the eternal chase for the next thing and the next it comes to a point when everything has to stop. Peace comes when there is nothing. Nothing to worry about, nothing to chase, nothing to possesse. It’s not forever though. Something will be born from emptiness. Inevitably.