Insect ghost parade 

EcoArt, Museum of Nonconformist Art, Saint Petersburg, 2025

Free-hanging prints and and poems on fluid textile

Insect ghost parade

After we die
we are wandering memories

the more we die, the more we pile up

this place is shaped by our ghosts
they walk in our absence

Biodiversity loss has made me think about ghosts, about what happens after nonhuman beings die — who notices, and what remains?

I approach creatures with ambivalence: there is playfulness and child-like curiosity, but also concern about their fragility and decline. Thinking about them as lively and numerous, yet ghostly, distorted, and disappearing, these works wonder about the ways we (don't) perceive them, and how we may value and remember them as nonhuman persons.

Creatures and their ghosts, decay and liveliness, thin boundaries between worlds. If we valued even the smallest creatures like our kin, how would we remember them when they're gone?

Museum ecologies — for every time a visitor walks past, for every sigh or slight movement, the prints sway along gently, like leaves in a breeze.