issue 6
// art
Title: Blue Dream, a Preserved Future… // Artist: Nasta Martyn
about the piece
| Materials: Ink, leaves, foil, cardboard Size: 30×40 cm Year: 2025 I wanted to create something magical, inspired by the fairy tale about the girl and the bears and the legend of the nymph fleeing from the amorous Apollo. The girl defied her circumstances and became a tree, or, according to one legend, a cypress. I guess I can relate to this legend in some way. And also, like her, I didn’t want to be a slave to circumstances. |
about the artist // Nasta Martyn
| Nasta Martyn is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor’s degree in design. The first personal exhibition “My soul is like a wild hawk” (2002) was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises themes of ecology, in 2005 she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, draws on anti-war topics. The first big series she drew was The Red Book, dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. Writes fairy tales and poems, illustrates short stories. She draws various fantastic creatures: unicorns, animals with human faces, she especially likes the image of a man – a bird – Siren. |
Instagram: @martynpasta
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