I am ready for a long road flight for work with a week- or months-long projects.
White dwarf
100 cm x 100 cm x 20 cm. Porcelain, gold leaf, plastic. 2019
A white dwarf is the final stage of a star’s evolution.
However, even after their death, stars don’t vanish without a trace—they leave a legacy. Some explode as supernovae, turning into black holes or neutron stars.
However, most, having exhausted their fuel, collapse and become white dwarfs—the hot, dense cores of once-bright stars. These stars can glow for billions of years until they cool completely.
In the project, I wanted to illustrate this process, finding parallels with my favorite city, St. Petersburg. Just as a white dwarf preserves the light of the distant past, St. Petersburg carries the beauty and grandeur of previous eras.
An interesting experience was working with two-component plastic, which allowed me to create the effect of underwater exploration—a nod to the famous St. Petersburg floods. During the project’s development, two more space objects emerged: "Ida" and "Dactyl," an asteroid and its tiny moon, the smallest known moon in the Solar System.
In 2022, "White Dwarf," "Ida," and "Dactyl" were featured at the contemporary sculpture exhibition "Sense of the City" at the Anikushin Workshop, a branch of the Museum of Urban Sculpture.
However, even after their death, stars don’t vanish without a trace—they leave a legacy. Some explode as supernovae, turning into black holes or neutron stars.
However, most, having exhausted their fuel, collapse and become white dwarfs—the hot, dense cores of once-bright stars. These stars can glow for billions of years until they cool completely.
In the project, I wanted to illustrate this process, finding parallels with my favorite city, St. Petersburg. Just as a white dwarf preserves the light of the distant past, St. Petersburg carries the beauty and grandeur of previous eras.
An interesting experience was working with two-component plastic, which allowed me to create the effect of underwater exploration—a nod to the famous St. Petersburg floods. During the project’s development, two more space objects emerged: "Ida" and "Dactyl," an asteroid and its tiny moon, the smallest known moon in the Solar System.
In 2022, "White Dwarf," "Ida," and "Dactyl" were featured at the contemporary sculpture exhibition "Sense of the City" at the Anikushin Workshop, a branch of the Museum of Urban Sculpture.
