At the center of this project is my parents and the fragile world of habits and rituals that they keep. Behind every frame there is a fear of forgetting these gestures, this special atmosphere — I am collecting evidence. The existence of an entire epoch passing away with them.

For me, “Through the Dust” is an attempt to have a dialogue. Dialogue with parents, with memory, with oneself. Through the camera, I ask: what of this legacy do we take with us into the future, and what remains in the dust of the past?

And here, in this tension between deep meaning and complete meaninglessness, it manifests itself Russian absurdity is a special way of looking at a world where tragic and funny, philosophical and illogical exist inseparably. Through this prism, reality is seen as both meaningful and meaningless, and an attempt to preserve memory becomes a gesture both futile and necessary.