I’m still working on this Green Tarot… Hopefully it’ll be released in the beginning of 2024.

My personal magnum opus started on 2017

She-bear

Darkness

Hope it’s still alive and I’ll try to add missing artworks during next few days

Mother Earth

Snake dance

Death and Maiden

Please watch with Sound

Translation from russian language original poem written by my friend Alexander Kopytin, translated and voiced by him.

Drawn and animated by me - Alexandra Dvornikova

For our upcoming project

(music used - Paul Klee 4tet -13-String Quartet 4-Buczak (1989) I

Philip Glass - Epilogue, random records of water)

RUSALKA (Russian Mermaid)

I’m Russian Mermaid,

A half-witted girl

Swimming merrily in the waters

Going out into the night,

I’m drawing a light halo

Around the moon.

With a languid gleam on the water,

Singing a hymn to the star,

The one that is free, like me,

In the circle of water naiads,

It leads a round dance with me

Under the moon.

My scattered hair

Is stretched out in a free flow,

But the lure shines on me,

And here is the fishing tackle

Is threatening to take me over

And catch in a tight net,

So that I can be a prey

To satisfy the fisherman’s earthly whim

Without a flower crown.

He will mark me with the word “slut”

My unsteady river surface,

The depth of my water soul,

And the expanse of my dreams.

But he will be embraced by fear

From his head to toe,

When the cross of his spoon

Will dive into my dreams

And go with me to the bottom -

After all, it is one for all -

The bottom of the world where darkness roams.

It takes a fisherman

Who sailed from afar,

To its wet abode

And grants him peace and shelter,

And a divine catch…

“You touch me
I hear the sound of mandolins
You kiss me
With your kiss my life begins
You’re spring to me, all things to me” (David Bowie)

I’ve made forest-folk dresses!

Patterns are hand-drawn by me from nature and then printed on the natural fabric. Later I designed the dress and in the end of pretty long journey they came to life! So excited!

Dresses itself (in very limited quantity), more photos and all the details about them are available on my Etsy

The main inspiration for me here is the term anthropoecosystem (at least existing in my native language) which, saying simply, means dependence the culture of the specific Land features. How do local biodiversity influence the folk art, how the local nature is reflected in myths and how do the landscape creates narratives? These dresses from imaginary forest people, reclusive modern green witches and herbalists, they are filled with their dark fairytales and mushroom related myths.

Making clothes is so wonderful!