I come from Prilep, a town where emigration has been particularly pronounced in the last few years. Even though everyone is talking loudly about this, official data on what is really happening does not exist.
Therefore, when I started this project, I turned to my fellow citizens for more specific information. 
First with people I know, and then with many strangers, wondering how many members of their family have moved away and why they did so.
Going to different places, I was not at all surprised to meet many parents whose children no longer live here, employers who can not find workers, that I saw schools with half-empty classrooms and empty houses. For me, the real confrontation with the magnitude of the problem was the discovery of completely abandoned streets.
That is the reason why I constantly return to this topic and raise the issue not about migration, but about the dying of one town.
I am working more than two years and continuing to do so. Part of my research I presented as a photo installation, print on plastic, The silhouettes were laser cut. They stand in front of the base and give  3D look to the works. The second part was presented as a public installation. I set up silhouettes (print on forex) in front of several building in the centre of the city. The silhouettes look like they are coming out of the wall with which I wanted symbolically to emphasize not only the problem of migration, that the town is facing, but also the emptiness created by the people absence.

* photo 1 - photo installation - 37 x 46 cm
* photo 2 - public installation - 164 x 68 cm

Emptied Nest

These paintings are my small dedication for this suspended time.

Mirrors are tired and days are full of poetry. 

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