Ball Games. Readiness. Sculpture

Every human being is an artist. Images are a medium that makes the viewer receptive to the fact that we are all capable of influencing the destiny of humanity. Elena Vostryakova was born in the north of Russia in the republic of Karelia bordering Finland. As in many border areas inhabited by different nationalities, she had the opportunity to absorb different cultures - Karelian, Russian, Finnish. For many years of her youth, Elena worked on the island of Kizhi in the open-air museum of Kizhi, which is called the real pearl of the Russian North. It was an amazing opportunity to get acquainted with the life of the people of this harsh northern region from ancient times to the present day, to study traditional architecture and iconography. Later, having moved to Europe, she reflected this experience in her works of art, in which she invariably returns to the theme of time, the comparison of life then and now, to the prospects of our future and dreams about it.