What is valuable to us?
What to cherish?
Where does it all begin?
And what does everyone strive for?

You need to appreciate every moment in life, because it can not be corrected or replayed again. A moment is a moment that should not be lost or forgotten. Still, life is not a game, although it often seems so. And the responsibility is equally on each of us for all our actions.

I really like family themes, I like to draw a family and look at it from different life situations or personal experiences. After all, that's how I am. This is how God created me.
You know, in my head, a family is always happy, and if not, it's hard to call it a family. But everyone chooses his life. And everyone fills it with their own. Nor should we reject the fact that there are things or circumstances that undoubtedly affect us and we cannot change anything in such situations. Here it remains only to humility, endure, or adapt.

In this series of works depicting family situations, realities, or even biblical stories, I turn to finding and reflecting on my own naive, childish feelings that I have truly experienced or thought about at some point in my life. For me, the feelings are very similar to the precious moment that needs to be cherished. And if you missed or forgot for a moment that you need to live not in the past and not just dream of the future. Go back to the time you have now and truly live it, fall in love with what you have and appreciate, too, only what you have at the moment.


Series of works "Family"

Inspired by the countryside of the village of Travneve that in the Ternopil region, recalling the life and plans of Nazariy Voytovich, who died on the maidan and is the youngest hero of the Heavenly Hundred, this serie of works represent to the image of household objects and habitual things for a person in this environment. After all everyone has in houses: a bed, a wardrobe, a chair and others.
Turning to such topics as freedom and responsibility, I would like to show the importance of choosing one's life. After all, this way we will know the world, through the choice we move through life, choosing one or another path. Each has its own choice and only we are responsible and only he leads to freedom, both external and internal.
When making a choice, a person always relies on his experience and knowledge. Relying on your own history, religion, or status. Looking at your family and surroundings and other people strangers.
Often, I want to be very different from others, or to take an important place in society. To be useful, known or rich. And sometimes, simply, I want to merge with the mass of people, so that are not noticeable, so that nobody touches me. In the middle of each person, two worlds are always fighting. In first world everyone can hide everything he likes and wear a mask that is advantageous to him. Second world open - a sincere, kind of naive one that is accessible to everyone where everyone can find something for himself, but which is very fragile, it's easy to criticize and even to spoil it.
We always stand in front of the weight of the fate, which gives us the opportunity to take a lot or little. Taking a lot, you do not know for sure whether you can carry it, having taken little you do not know if you will be enough is enough. And this is our life, it has, light stripes and dark ones. And on the way of life there are cracks and smooth places. The dark strip, white strip and vice versa. Everyone has the right to make a choice from which everything depends.


A serie of works " Choice"

Plants are like humans and each leaf is like an arm or leg in a full-fledged body. They are alive as we are. In short, we are very similar. There is something really valuable in plants. Something unsolved and eternal. Hidden in them is the great power of life, which we often forget.

In this series of plant still lifes, I refer to such concepts as: the change of the world and the distortion of reality, or simply how a person's vision of everyday life changes. Here in this series there is a reference to aphorisms and folk sayings that vividly describe us. Each work is a reflection of my subjective feelings, which I explore through tales and folk wisdom.


A series of works "Plants"

This series of works highlights the social theme of our society from the middle. Her second name is routine, or commonplace. I have addressed such topics as pain and hope, accessibility and impossibility. I asked myself the following questions. 
What is Ukraine? How to be a Ukrainian? And in whom does Ukraine really live? Having tried to answer these questions, I realized that Ukraine is within every Ukrainian. She is in the genetic code, with her unique symbolism, spirituality and traits. In my works I portray ordinary people or associate with them who are the main category in our state. In which there is no opportunity to have plenty of abundance, which are closed in their surroundings and which come out from their possibilities. After all, the economic opportunities of the average person in our state often want better, often the state does not care little about it. Also, confidence in the future is not always felt. Hope, in turn, dies the last and it is impossible to destroy it easily. It is always blind and sincere. Observing the history of this country, one can conclude that it is possible to take almost everything from a person even freedom, but there is something that cannot be taken away, and this is the code of national identity. 
I observe that, regardless of the external influence, an Ukrainian is undoubtedly unique and always remains himself. Ukraine is not a country that should be directed by «right» or «left», it tives in the genetic code of every Ukrainian. 
Ask yourself: how much Ukrainian are you?


A serie of works  " Social "

Subcategories:
-House
-Garden
-City
-The sky or the distance

Everyone knows that a coin has two sides. One depicts an eagle, and the other a tail of coin. The two sides are different, but they are folded into one indivisible coin. So is man, he is bilateral, so to speak. One is all that can be seen, the so-called external. Another deep, something that is not visible to the eye, it can only be felt and only when someone really opens up to you. Also in nature there are two sides of reality. One natural, very diverse and unique. The other is sensual, it can only be felt, it, unlike the first, has much more power and only there you can find real comfort and shelter. An analogy of our soul. After all, we are a reflection of nature, no matter how much we want to avoid it.

This series of works is divided into subseries. In each of them I consider various objects or phenomena of nature. The main idea and value of the work is to find clearly the two sides of reality. Feel them and observe not only through the prism of beauty, but also sensations. Not only superficially, as sometimes due to the way of depiction, or the beauty of the depicted moment, the curiosity of the situation. But also through the inner side, where there is an opportunity to plunge into a certain feeling, whether true (natural), or contradiction. To find an image that will be as accurate and subtle as possible, not only to describe a situation or an object, but also to create a certain thought, and sometimes even a subjective state of my soul.


Landscape series

House - the inner world of man. Old, destroyed house, loneliness, emptiness inside. There is no light inside just darkness cut  light from the windows. Confusion and loneliness are his dark side. Disregard all around but also at the same time prevails and the bright side - the family. She has a divine nature. Angelic Where there is a cycle of life, there is a place where you look for yourself. A person makes his choice, a global choice. It is not easy for him when he knowingly accepts it. He is locked into a shelter. In his spiritual temple.

Other windows, doors are also the worlds of people. Some are open, others are closed. Man is in constant search, searching for himself. Search for meaning. From small to large - significant. Find your way.

He loves to live, cares about something, is experiencing - all this is a path through his only life.


The Inner House of Man

We are humans and each of us has our own life. We are so immersed in it that we do not see others. Often seeing the problems of others, we are sure that this can never happen to us. After all, how can anything happen to us if we follow certain rules: live by the rules of our country, morality or social status. But not believing others and not wanting to change something, we fall into the trap just like everyone else.
We believe that we are one with nature. Also, that man is the crown of nature and decides everything for everyone. What do you think? But often we do not notice how we destroy it, as animals and plants. And the world around us is being destroyed. Nature so fragile to the outside world that we begin to truly experience the effects of our rule.
The environmental situation is deteriorating every year and it is difficult to imagine how our children and grandchildren will live. What awaits them and what we will leave them.
In this series, people are like a fairy or a spirit. For her is all possible and which works many miracles. But soon nature will remain only artificial. And can we exist without her? And nature can undoubtedly do without us.


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Yaroslav Leonets