Upon completion of the Contemporary fine art practice summer program at UAL (Central Saint Martens), a group exhibition was held to showcase the work done. 

 One of the main challenges was to create a large work using only materials that I could find in the studio or in the institute’s trash bins; I make art out of trash. This cardboard was part of the packaging of various art supplies (canvases, paints, building materials). 

 This project was created as a self-portrait. It depicts a jay bird observing the world around it from a high tree where no one can see or reach it. This bird is quite shy and in the northern regions it can most often be seen only in spring and autumn, when it is looking for food and materials for building a nest. 

 Different elements of this design represent different types of perception of the world by me. On the left, the blue landscape is a reference to the cartoon about the Bremenskiye Musicians, and the birch trees with the sun on the right show how I still try to see the world through the eyes of a child. 

The eyes that appear in many of my works give the effect of tension, the feeling that you are always being looked at, even by the trees. 

 The second part of the composition, on the left, written on burlap, was painted as a more explicit representation of my emotions in the process of creating this installation. The burlap was not primed which caused the paint to bleed onto the wall and stick to it. When I removed the painting from the wall, there was a large stain in the shape of my body, which in a sense left my imprint on the memory of the Central Saint Martens building, and I took part of their wall with me.