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It was. Why? / It was—for a reason!

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I propose a choice: to view every experience as an exceptional privilege or to continue perceiving it as an obstacle.

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This series of works explores the theme of experience. I often contemplated how humans inevitably encounter various types of information—information they perceive as useless and irrelevant to themselves, yet which society deems vital and mandatory. Ultimately, much of our time is spent on things that make us multifaceted, yet shallow in relation to our vocation and areas of interest.

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I raise the question of the significance of consuming information that lies outside an individual’s area of interest or activity, which offers novel—though not always relevant—experiences. All knowledge acquired in the form of notes over a specific period ultimately finds its embodiment in art and serves its purposes.

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On one hand, the experience gained feels useless because it merely becomes material and loses its value. On the other hand, information serves as a foundation and bedrock for artistic statements, expanding the spectrum of possibilities.

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«Knowledge does not transform a person; it only changes them, but it changes them not into one universal, bureaucratic form, but according to the nature of that individual.» [F. M. Dostoevsky, «Literacy and Education»]

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It was. Why? / It was—for a reason!
Project created at 31.03.2026
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