Every sculpture begins with an idea — not with a sketch or a concept, but with an inner movement that cannot be ignored.

Sometimes it's a sudden flash: a shadow seen, a sound, a random detail that makes the heart work differently.

Sometimes it's a slow process, when a thought takes months to mature until it becomes a sense of necessity.: it must be created.

An idea is not an invented image, but an energy that is looking for a way out.

When she arrives, I take my time grabbing my tools.

I let her live, test herself with time.

If it's still playing a week or a month later, it means there's life in it.

From that moment on, the search begins — not how to do it, but why exactly it should appear. 

For me, every sculpture is not an object, but a conversation.

A conversation about a person, about the inner state, about the world in which we exist. 

Sometimes an idea is born out of pain, sometimes out of light, but always out of an attempt to understand: where is the boundary between what can be expressed and what can only be felt.

I take notes, draw words, phrases, sometimes just images.

Sometimes the idea is expressed in one word — "silence", "memory", "fall", "enlightenment".

These are not names, but internal vectors around which plastic begins to revolve.

At this moment, I'm imagining the material — bronze, clay, stone — and wondering how it will behave in this topic.

Dense clay or brittle wax begin to sound in unison with the idea, and this is a clue where to start. 

An idea is a seed.

It takes time to germinate and attention not to die.

Sometimes it comes back years later, in a new context, in a different form, and it gets recognized anyway.

The main thing is not to be afraid to postpone or try to force the birth. 

The real idea takes a pause.

When the meaning becomes tangible, when there is a sense of an inner center, it's time to translate the thought into a line.

It is a transition from intuition to form, from the ineffable to the visible. 

This is how the next stage begins — drawing, where the idea first finds shape and direction.

The idea is to breathe before touching the material for the first time.

Everything else is just a trace of her, transformed into a form.