Paradise for Romantics 70×85 cm; 1999–2004. I dedicated this artwork to my family. It speaks of the birth of love and the unity of all living things on Earth. I immortalized this moment so that I could return to it again and again.
Osip Mandelstam
Silentium
Translated by Ilya Shambat
She has not taken her first sigh —
She is the word and music both —
And thus of all that lives and grows
A timeless and unbroken tie.
Placidly breathe the breasts of sea
The day is bright, as if gone mad,
The sea foam's pallid lilacs stand
In vase of lapis lazuli.
O, would my lips accept the lure
Of muteness prime, now so remote,
Reminding of a crystal notes
That are innately truly pure.
Be foam, O Venus, stay as mists,
And words to music do return
And heart, at heart's own shame do burn,
Fused with the core of what exists!
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