Everything Passes

Everything Passes, 2017, Land Art Festival “Mohrytsia”

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In this project, I worked with fragments of a damaged tree, possibly struck by lightning. Each piece carried, unconsciously, the history of time, trauma, and transformation. I transformed these fragments into small island-like cities — symbols of memory, the past, and the potential for new beginnings.

The performative gesture of release became the central moment: I carried the islands to the swift Psel River and let them go one by one. Three objects — three separate stories — found their path in the river’s flow. For me, it was an act of symbolic liberation, a gentle farewell to the past, and an acknowledgment that everything passes.

Material, place, and action merged into a spatial meditation on the flow of time, the cyclical nature of life, and the capacity of both nature and humans to let go of what no longer belongs to them.