Hello, I’m Maria. or mina-milk, as on web.

My work shows the world as if it was seen for the first time.
I see and depict beauty. Beauty is not only the matter of taste but it is a dynamic apparition, that can be coaxed out of ugly, banal and obscure.
I’m interested in myths, dreams and erotism.

I work with ink, watercolour, pens and pencils, pastels and soya sauce, screen print and etching. I also usually process the imagery digitally.

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  City scapes: life-drawing at locations, wherever I go.

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  Illustrated book, the story for it is created from random pieces of Russian fairy tales. Reflects the relation between a text and an image, exploring sequential illustration.

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  This comes from the same project as the book, different approach – textile designs capture the aesthetics of Russian folklore in a set of images.

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  Working on visualising the theme of Resistance – and thats the first picture that is on my mind when I hear this word. Screenprinted in edition of 7.

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  A very bad, bad romace – a portrait of aggressive party animals I saw on Moscow night-life scene.

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