for maria torletskaya, the invitation to take part in this project was an important event.2400, it’s 3500, and i brought it, i actually brought it in two. suitcases, and it was just like flying into space, flying with a suitcase of iron, i had a suitcase of iron and a suitcase of bolts, and it was necessary to somehow bring it all to the other end of the earth, it was such a challenge, maria began to exhibit as a real artist quite late, only after forty, and before that time immediately after graduating from the academy of arts, i worked exclusively as... and i had such a monstrous impostor syndrome that some big important person needed to somehow transform this from me into something else, and larisa davidovna became such a person, everything is personal, and larisa’s personality played such a big role, it is not surprising, but even after studying at the faculty of artistic metal processing and receiving a complex and completely unfeminine profession, maria for a long time did not dare to call herself an artist or a sculptor. 15 years after graduating from the academy...