Compiègne, France

Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Abkhazian poet
and prose writer Bagrat Shinkuba

"Thinking has the moment of universality. A good designed thing will be designed once again for sure at another place and by someone else…" T. Adorno, 1965

Inspired by Traditional Caucasian Culture. More about porcelain figurines designed by Diana Vouba at vouba.gift

"The Road Home" - a series of works devoted to the individuation process.

"Walks across the sky" is a generalization of the space concept that has certain motion properties.

The spatial extent of our universe that we perceive with our minds and senses is present in this world as the Silence. The Silence exists not only in space but also within us in the form of infinite depth. When we are fully present it is possible for us to come in touch with it as if it is the serene inner space of not-a-mind.

Some people are capable of seeing the sound and hearing the color. In science, this perception of music in the form of regularly and spontaneously manifested color patches, stripes, waves is called sound-to-color synaesthesia (chromesthesia).

Exploring the potential of the SQUARE, within which the geometrical pattern is based on the Golden Section, one may notice the terrifying power of the logical, governed by an absolute symmetry.

Rose, a symbol of beauty and life's transience, is one of the objects of my close attention for over two decades.

Peering into their beautiful faces, one may confidently state that there is a future for Abkhazia!

The graphic series appeared after my meeting with the legendary Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in his studio in Rio de Janeiro in 2007.

"ICONOSTASIS – border between the world visible
and the world invisible. The ICONOSTASIS is vision."
Pavel Florensky

God created an OCEAN, man build a CITY.

The nucleus of this project is the principle of the game "Tetris" which, as in life, produces innumerable sets of combinations.

Based on Bagrat Shinkuba's novel of the same name