FAINA

Oil on canvas
70 x 60 cm
2023

I dreamt of Renata Litvinova as Faina Mikhailovna, the heroine of the movie Goddess: How I Fell in Love. She begs me to bring her back from the world of the dead to the world of the living. She hides behind the bed, flirts and says: “Well, come on, you go down there, find me, and bring me back. Please, please, please, please, please!” And I don’t want to and I chase her away, “Go away, go away, go away!” It was hard to speak through gritted teeth, but the spell worked. Faina staggered backward, barely touching the floor with her hands. Like a wild cat, wary, hypnotizing with her eyes.