Painting by Alena Kuznetsova

There are projects–concepts, projects–symbols, projects–research, and there are projects–therapy, such as *Familiar Ground *. When I was creating these works—each and every one of them—I sought to find balance and a certain gentle structure that would warm with a sense of safety, acting as therapy and support. Familiar Ground is about my search for inner grounding during a period when things were at their most difficult. It is a practice of accumulating strength—dense, like warm embraces. In these works, life itself is felt through color, which is mostly mature and experienced, soft and harmonious.