drawings: Almaz Zyablikov-Cherry Sound state I was already dozing when suddenly a photo arrived in the mail. There was some kind of black haze on it. I felt somehow uneasy. I called and asked what she photographed and she said it was a wall and a sheet. This explanation didn't make it any easier. “It’s a good wall,” I said. “I felt him,” she said. - Who did you touch? - I asked. — Sound state. Somehow I was completely confused.

[from a series of my dialogues with AI, without additional editing or simplification] — Grigory Gorin’s texts are a hymn to irony!) Let’s look at Mark Zakharov’s Formula of Love as a mythopoetic project. Stepping onto Russian soil, Cagliostro does not understand that he found himself in the space of the purest, self-ironic myth. Spiritualistic practices do not work, and ancient mystical formulas fail.

[from a series of my dialogues with AI, without additional editing or simplification] — Tell me about success. What do you think is the ultimate expression of success? There is also one marketing contradiction in modern media: a successful artist is a dead artist. I immediately remember Gogol with his Dead Souls. Explain what's going on? Success is the maximum realization of your inner potential while maintaining inner harmony and freedom.

1. Je ne cherche pas, je trouve In a polemic against the idea of ​​"search" in modernist art, Picasso states: ❞ I hardly understand the importance of the word "research" in connection with modern painting. In my opinion, searching means nothing in painting. The important thing is to find it.