Screwed Egg

Gel transfer, graphite, paint, mixed media on canvas; monumental scroll format

SCREWED EGG explores childhood as a closed but pressured system. Using a photographic transfer process that fragments and reconstructs a single egg across sixteen panels, the work reflects early life shaped under instability rather than rupture.

Metal screws embedded within the egg symbolize internalized disruption—political collapse, scarcity, and psychological stress following the fall of the Soviet Union. Despite this intrusion, the shell remains intact.

The surface bears visible seams, erosion, and graphite traces, emphasizing endurance over innocence. Rather than depicting trauma as breakage, the work examines how pressure is absorbed, contained, and carried forward.