subject of philosophy, which we had at the institute, namely, eastern teachings, there is confucius, loudza's part, then it was just a time when... many such books appeared and this mysterious world, which encouraged such attentive listening to attentive looking at the surrounding things, that's when, probably, it fascinated me, then i accidentally got to a master class on chinese painting and i realized that this is what i would like to do, that it helps me express myself and be in such a... very deep connection with the world around me, traditional chinese painting, what is it like? it is different, despite the fact that it is quite ancient, yes, after all, the chinese gave our civilization a brush and paper, it has its own tools, its own completely unique brushes, here they are with me, my main assistants in chinese painting rice paper is used, this is really what makes these... works so transparent and also create such a tone of understatement, this is the main difference, probably, from a technical point of view, yes from our european painting, but first of all , all chinese paintings ha