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“My work is a reflection on intimate memories that I feel the need to translate into tangible objects, giving them weight and immortality, validating their importance in my world. Highly personal and nostalgic, they reflect what is of significance to me at a given time. I draw inspiration from experiences of joy and satisfaction as well as periods of emptiness and loss. In recent projects, I have been looking forward to a feeling of future nostalgia. What will this work mean when the subjects it depicts are no longer what and who they were? This thinking allows me to work both currently and retrospectively, articulating what I am today and what I will be tomorrow. I feel compelled to depict myself through self-portraits as a means to reify my own relationship with the world. It is through literal self-expression, figurative or otherwise, that I understand myself and others.”

— Masha Morgunova