Due to the long-term systematic destruction of Belarusian culture, language and human potential by the totalitarian regime in Belarus, as well as the loss of these most important sources of national identity, the present moment has acquired an ambivalent character. In fact, it is divided into two polar dimensions - one I recognize as my home, alive and authentic, and the other I regard as a zone of forced cultural alienation, where life flows out and at the same time ossifies.

The roadside cross ("abrok") as a talisman against evil is a centuries-old tradition that is still alive in Belarus. It is a symbol of sacred culture that has become an object of ritual veneration. In my sculpture, I use materials and semantic attributes that relate to both dimensions. I am trying to cope with that part of the socio-political matrix that has replaced the vital present with a clumsy metal shell.

The materials from which traditional Crosses are made are widely used by municipal services of Belarus in their "urban ecological" practices.