pattern known as the tree of life , emperor penguins with a crown on their head, then tell me that hyperboreour people visited antarctica, when you look at these things, i have a feeling that this was created by representatives of another higher civilization, that... will, this willpower, firmness of views, it is transferred to the picture, here immersion, this is how life used to be in the 19th century, i learned to rejoice, this is what i convey in any painting, love of life, a life-affirming beginning, yes, i decided to paint a portrait in russian costume with a child, well, i just had a small child, first daughter, russian costume - is that a lot of red? i completed it, i actually realized that it was some kind of russian madonna, i of course flattered myself a little, i made my cheeks bigger, well, i still painted the image there from myself, the nose is redder, the teeth are whiter, why not no , because these are all the revivals, they are there in these revivalist ones... and we have our own madonnas, big, it’s in the small, when you see how a bud opens, like this, like these, let’s s