Girl With The Bird

48" x 40"
Oil Painting
1995

Who am I? Russian or Spaniard? And here we are, back to Spain again. Girl is holding a bird in her hand. You ask me, why the girl and why the bird? What is it? Well, in Spain the fantastic mixes with reality. What you think is fantastic, here, in Spain is real. And besides, why a young girl cannot hold a bird on her finger?

Red skirt, orange background are Spanish colors. Her wide open eyes are bottomless, mysterious universe, where secrets of life are hidden. Blue stockings, well, who knows? We don't know what she will be when she grows up to a full woman. In the meantime, it is important for her to hold this unknown sort of bird.