Cities of Russia. Yekaterinburg

My project: https://www.behance.net/gallery/30552169/Visual-metaphors

I would like to write a few words about the creation of a series of works devoted to cities of Russia. If we talk about Russia, many people in Europe and America imagine it as a severe state with a communist past and with tyrants as heads of state. These cliches are not so remote from reality, the past cannot be concealed. But there are images that are understandable only to the people of Russia, who are familiar with the history of their cities.
In general, I like to combine different signs and symbols in my work to cover the topic. The first thing I try to identify the most expressive objects related to the topic, and then come up with an idea how to combine them in an interesting way into a single composition. Just like in the illustration “Ekaterinburg” I presented crown with a bullet hole, the crown itself also resembles the letter E (reference to the name of the city). As it is well known, it was the Bolsheviks (communists) who killed last Russian Emperor Nickolay the second with his whole family. The city is not proud of such a chapter in its history, but it is an important event for the whole country, moreover my home and my institute are located near the places where this happened and I could not help but tell about this.