Empty Spaces by Katerina Belkina

Early on Katerina Belkina recognized her ability to see the world through different eyes. Born in Samara in the southeast of European Russia, she was brought up in a creative atmosphere by her mother, a visual artist. Katerina is an artist who is searching through her work for the way back to the deeper layers of humanity's essential identity.

I see the city as independent, living and nonliving at the same time, like artificial intelligence. It attracts, fascinates.  It is a void if it's without people. Sometimes we feel the same emptiness inside. We want to fill it, but we are wrong to try, and we fill the empty spaces outside instead. We fill apartments, houses, cars, neighborhoods, cities and so on. And we begin to understand that all our accomplishments are an illusion, and material good - imaginary. We feel ourselves very lonely. And just then we start to think we are in the wrong place...