Selected Works: Elizabeth Romanova

They do not find themselves in the city life. All people feel like plastic, as if they are all the same. People find themselves fully blessed only near nature. Trees and flowers breathe with them. They are alive. But the serenity cannot last long enough. Creatures from dreams appear in reality. The only way to get rid of them - merging together, entering a complete new world, that you've probably been in before.

The main idea of the project is to focus on exploring the feelings of experiencing nostalgia, deja-vu and why do people tend to have these sensations. In order to represent my feelings to the topic, I am using film photography, showing a girl going through the city, the forest and meeting a creature from her dreams in real life. A visible contrast between the difficulty of finding yourself in a large crowded city and being in the woods is occurred, presenting how nature helps us to recharge, to feel alive, to know for a fact that the trees, grass, flowers are breathing with you. To escape the reality, the only way for the girl was to intervene with the creature from her dreams, accept that they are with her, that she cannot escape from herself.

Elizabeth Romanova, known as 'Romashka does something', is an emerging artist based in Washington D.C., USA. She has extended her artistic practice with animation workshops (precisely stop motion), private tutoring in the studies of fine arts and techniques of masters, as well as career guidance courses for directing feature films. For more than two years Elizabeth has been engaged in 35mm film photography, VHS cinematography and painting with a variety of mixed media.

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