The story of one escape

"The Faces of The Big City" series

One of the main characters in the «Theater of Invisible» art-movie and of the performance «The mystery of image and sound: singing universes of Kirin» (under support of the Russian Ministry of Culture, 2022)

The series "The Faces of The Big City" is drafts, light sketches of emotionally-potent personae populating the urban environment of the megapolices which are easily recognized in the megapolices around the world and which became practically archetypical.

Every story about alcohol is a story of escape. The story of some deep person who did not find what to fill themselves with and so choose the simple and at the same time hard work that is called drinking.

The story of a wannabe poet who chose business over poems. The story of marrying into money and giving up love. The story of a pilot who became a jurist. The story of "have to", the story of "need to".

The story of hating yourself for weakness, for betrayal, for fear. The story of a long - sometimes decades-long - argument between "have to" and "love". It's always the story of hope until the last swallow.