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    Statement I want to relive when I make. And photographs come closest in telling you what it’s like to miss my family in Belarus and what it’s like construct my own story within the familial narrative; what it’s like to put together a home so far away but filled with familiar symbols; what it’s like to console my dear ones in the face of a war; what it’s like to hold a warm quail egg, or look at my brother’s sweaty hair behind his ear, or to trace the wrinkles on my grandmother’s face, or to trace the wrinkles on a friend’s face; or what it’s like to find the people that feel like a new family for a moment or for many.

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    photos, pictures, hiding, work, space, love, home, people, thinking, room, feel, photographs, talking, life, installation, moments, appropriation, portrait, interesting, mundane
    “The hiding is something that comes from my family. I mean, my father approves of me making art, but for my mother, it's a big deal that I'm making it. And so often I have to hide what I'm doing. So it's like, I can't show it, so I have to be hiding somewhere to be making art.”
    “I realized that since 17—and I'm now 24—I have not lived at home, because I'm studying first in high school, abroad, and now here. And so it's like, for me home has always been like trying to put pieces together or trying to construct something out of something that I have, or you know...not having a lot of stuff, but mostly having memories and photographs and kind of carrying that with me. So paper is very important to me because of this, because it's something that's easily transportable, and that I can bring with myself.”
    “And then there are a lot of phone photographs as well that I just happened to be taking. But then when you put them…on paper, put alongside something more intentional, they also change. So vernacular becomes also something that's kind of like...it's like using slang words in writing or whatever. It's something that's happening everywhere.”
    “I had a discussion about it with one of my teachers, and he was like, 'Why are you always working on your small computer? Work on the big one. Because your small one may crash.' And I was like, 'Well, I don't want to see you looking at my pictures because all of them are so intimate.' So it's, you know, for me, it's this fear of letting too much in or showing too much or, like...something about me wants to protect those pictures. So that's why maybe the hiding. Because all of it means so much that I don't want it to be easily accessible.”
    “Wolfgang Tillmans? He's my man!”
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    Statement I want to relive when I make. And photographs come closest in telling you what it’s like to miss my family in Belarus and what it’s like construct my own story within the familial narrative; what it’s like to put together a home so far away but filled with familiar symbols; what it’s like to console my dear ones in the face of a war; what it’s like to hold a warm quail egg, or look at my brother’s sweaty hair behind his ear, or to trace the wrinkles on my grandmother’s face, or to trace the wrinkles on a friend’s face; or what it’s like to find the people that feel like a new family for a moment or for many.

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