The "Time" series of works includes my reflections and retrospective on time. What is time in the local and total sense? How much time do we have? How do we live in the present moment? Why do we put life on hold? How does time flow when we are waiting for something? At different ages and in different situations, we perceive time differently. Our relationship with time is permanently oscillating. Sometimes we greatly value and treasure our time, and other times we waste it on nonsense. In this series, many of the works include a real clock with a running mechanism.

Time is Time

This series of artworks presents a separate mythologized world of each of our senses (sight, taste, hearing, smell, feeling). Nowadays we live in a world of heightened emotions. Every day advertising tries to hook us, social media wants to enslave us, the news shocks us. Every night we go to bed tired from the excess of emotions and feel nothing. And each new day we spend in this state of oscillation between emotional peak and complete unfeeling.
This series of works is my reflection, my attempt to bring my sensitivity back to normal. I create a fantastic living world with hybrid forms of each sense organ, as if it were part of the surreal flora and fauna of the planet of my inner world.

Senses Alive

This is a project about feminism and femininity, the search for female identity. This series will be replenished with new art works. This series of artworks is about our boundaries. What do we allow ourselves to do? What do we allow others to do to us? In particular I want to talk here about the retrospective of women's boundaries. In our still very patriarchal world, being a woman is harder and more dangerous. The bottom line is that women aren't running forward to progress, they're running in circles and at each circle they have to manage to do more and more.

My Borders

This series immerses viewers into the intimate and complex process of human creation. I explore the spectrum of emotions, from the anticipation and fear of pregnancy to the joy and challenges of new life. Here I'm using my personal artifacts such as belly prints, family photographs, and baby-monitor footage. The project blends the personal with the universal, inviting viewers to reflect on the fragility of life. Amidst the chaotic forces of politics and war, "Fragile Beginnings" speaks powerfully about the sanctity of life and the deep connection shared between mother and child.

This series will be updated with new works. You'll be able to see the entire project here in February 2025

Fragile Beginnings

Surreal art

Every person learns something, sets goals and moves forward in life. Emigration is a special experience. In emigration a person loses everything old (language, culture, native faces, habitual mentality, known rules of behavior and laws, way of life and many other things) and gets instead of all this everything new. Sometimes you feel complete antagonism towards the new place, at other times you are happy and delighted by the changes in it, sometimes you go through a phase of retrospection and reflection on your past life or maybe experience nostalgia. In the series I explore these processes through art in different techniques and media.

Emigration and Adaptation

Colorful Portrait Artworks

This is the series of watercolor small artworks, which I painted during my trip to Thailand. I depicted those places, moments, nature, flora and fauna that impressed me the most and stayed in my memory to keep me warm in cold weather.
I depicted those places, moments, nature, flora and fauna that impressed me the most and stayed in my memory to keep me warm in cold weather. Also traveling to Thailand inspired me to write a short but sweet story.

Leah Larisa Bunshaft Dizlarka