Artist Statement:

The Duchess once said to Alice: “…and the moral of that is –‘Be what you would seem to be’ – or if you’d like it put more simply – ‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’”

I could not have put it more accurately than this as I seem to draw many a parallel myself with this statement as I go along. I go back to my childhood memories a lot these days and the associations I draw as a result seem to agree in many ways with what come out in my work – silence, stillness, occasional loneliness, contemplation, etc. - anything and everything that puts my mind at rest. I try to give places and objects the effect as if they were from a forgotten time, as though I had come across it after days of wandering in a dreamland forest, like one of Anderson’s fairytales. There is no better words to describe it than the image itself and therefore the morale of that is that I let the viewers to draw their own impression of what they see. And let them judge for themselves and be what they would seem to be…

I use all kinds of equipment and film as long as the desired result is there, and so there is no tricky round-abounds in terms of the technical question. After all, it is the ultimate outcome that counts.

Katya Evdokimova

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