Zlatoslava Kotikova

I started as a fashion designer in Kherson. In the 5th year, I got into the workshop of my university where sculpture classes were held and became fascinated, that's how my difficult relationship with clay began. After the university, I worked as a fashion designer, then as a graphic designer, but I dreamed of ceramics. Before the war, I was a free artist with my dreams and plans, but on the morning of February 24, I felt a fear that I had not felt before, such a term as war, which I heard about at school in history lessons with little interest, came to us today and has been transforming my life for 3 months to a terrible dream.

It is very difficult to be inspired in these terrible days of war.

From the very beginning, I live in the front-line city of Mykolaiv. Shots are fired here every day. Art is what keeps me going!