Bilonizhka Iryna

Childhood is the period when forms character, habits, and basic behavioral patterns. Childhood is a time for love, games, pleasure and experimentation. A ball of memories that in the future should serve as a base and resource for the development and embodiment of goodness in the world of adults.

Today, not only in Ukraine, but also in many countries of the world, children are deprived of this right in the struggle for survival and overcoming fear, hopelessness, hunger, or the right to a free and full life. With this work, I want to remind how important it is to protect the rights of children and their lives.

“Collage is my therapy. Creating them is my meditation: flipping through magazines and books, sorting through old photos, feeling the paper by touch and smell, enjoying the variety of textures and thicknesses, and listening to the sound of scissors and the trembling of materials when cutting. And then creating a new story from these rituals. I work specifically with analog collage as my [mental] support and at the same time a tool of communication with the world”.