BIOTOPOGRAPHY

From Joseph Brodsky's poem "Lullaby of Cape Cod":

...Stifling heat. A traffic light blinks, turning the eye into a means

of transportation across the room to the nightstand with whiskey. The heart

skips a beat, but still pounds: blood,

after wandering through arteries, returns to the crossroads.

The body resembles a three-verst map rolled into a scroll,

and in the north, an eyebrow is raised.

"Biotopography" — a series of works created using the multiple-exposure technique, exploring the bodily experience of being inside the sealed space of a car wash.

The ghostly contours of the body, superimposed onto abstract patterns of water and soap, create a hybrid topography where fear and beauty, vulnerability and strength exist in inseparable unity.

The fear experienced within the confined space of a car during the wash materializes in the visual fusion of vulnerable flesh and mechanical force. The body, stripped of clear boundaries, dissolves into water streams, becoming part of a landscape — lunar, aquatic, or womb-like. Soap foam, overlaid onto the skin, transforms into a new kind of epidermis — transient, bubbling, illusory.

The series reflects on how the technological environment absorbs and transmutes our physical "self," giving rise to new, unexpected forms of self-perception.