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Riverside spot a little while back. Saint Petersburg 2017

Stereoleto 2017 x Street Beat Summer jam with friends in St.Petersburg.

Last week I had a privilege of returning to Nizhniy Novgorod for a street art festival "MESTO" organized by Zerno Pro and curated by Nikita Nomerz. As part of the festival Nikita has presented his street art documentary that he worked on for over 6 years, it was titled "The Open Film". Working on my wall I explored the idea behind the title, openness/insularity forward thinking/traditionalism and so forth. Many bypassers found their own interpretations which is what I always loved about painting borderline abstract/representative artworks. What do you see in it?

In the summer of 2016, I have organized a live art painting at the largest open air festival in Russia - VK festival. Alongside Trace of Colors and Synergy Artists member Tony Stork and his crew Rayons we constructed an assembly of cubes that served as a canvas for an anamorphic image. Working with a 3-dimensional space instead of flat surface allowed us to create an anamorphic image that needs to be viewed from a specific point. We had 3 images painted by three teams, mine depicted Sansa Stark of Game of Thrones played by Sophie Turner, house Stark sigil and a bunch of emoji's that resembled my feeling about the end of 6th season. Overall a great experience! Photo by Luba Chirkova and myself.

I working on this canvas very subconsciously, with a clear idea or sketch. A month after I completed it I came up with a name and understood the meaning behind the painting.  

While in Dubai I had an opportunity to join Anthony Toones in preparing two canvases for Drake who was gonna perform at new, flash BoaClub. We only had a day and a half but we were quite happy with the result. Artwork for @champagnepapi 🍾🐶6️⃣. Supported by @prowalls.ae and @boadubai. 1.2 x 1.2 m mixed media on canvas.

My part that I've painted in Petrozavodsk city for a local street art jam organized by state university. The theme was sport and I've decided to dedicate my painting to Viatcheslav Ekimov, famous Russian cyclist.

Its about time to share this wall I did with Dater Loveletters and Marcello Weis in Essen, Germany last year for Hafen Dampf spray jam. Good times!

I've brought back a few ideas from Abu Dhabi job, time to play around with them 🐯👁✨ Painted alongside @skvgknrs and @yana_iskra.

Collab wall with Ruslan aka OdinTri and Pavel aka Pats in Saints Petersburg Russia for InterLoft Weekend jam. It has been a while since I've painted a joint wall like this. Happy to have been given an opportunity to work with these guys on a memorable artwork!

My current art studio in Abu Dhabi.

Vacating is not something I'm used to so I got busy and prepped and tested new stencil yesterday. Quite happy with the initial result.

Before official opening of a new creative cluster in St Petersburg I had a chance to paint inside. Given the fact that it was -10 outside this opportunity was a real treat.

Studio 212 hosted a group show "Everything is illuminated" where several contemporary artists exhibited their recent works.

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From Archives. Collaboration with Ed.Bats in Taupo NZ for Graffito festival.

"Silver skull 1" canvas 30*24cm, experimenting with simple compositions, monochrome color pallet and iridescent paint. This one is the first one out of three I'm going to make.