Muted Echo 2 (2023) 印花与版画 由 Valentin Fedorov

At that moment, I was in emotional turmoil: fear of an unknown future, pain of loss, shame at my own helplessness in a destructive relationship.
Attempts to end this relationship stretched for six months, but eventually, I found myself abandoned. My feelings fluctuated between sadness, anger, and joy at the thought that he might be happy without me. And also shame, for what, I can't anymore.
This period of my life is almost erased from my memory. I still have the photographic films from that time - I stopped shooting with analog cameras. I have transferred these images into a graphic in which I recreate the process of the decay of memories. A process in which the image breaks down into fragments, like an old painting being crumbled by the grains of time.
This visual metamorphosis serves as my way of recording and tracing the way in which memories fade away, leaving only traces of their former essence. So far, I haven't fully lived through the experience, and it's been a long time since I've been in a long-term relationship, but I've learned to take care of myself.