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Editor’s Note: These works unfold like fragments of a shared dreamscape—where red pulses as memory, alarm, and desire against fields of black and white silence. Paper-cut animals and birds hover between innocence and omen, while human faces emerge and dissolve, scarred by gesture and shadow. Organic elements—leaves, flowers, torn foil—anchor the compositions in the physical world, even as the figures drift toward myth. Together, the artworks speak of vulnerability and resilience, of bodies and spirits caught between flight and fracture, suggesting a quiet struggle to remain visible, alive, and whole within chaos.

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Nasta Martyn is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor’s degree in design. The first personal exhibition “My soul is like a wild hawk” (2002) was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises themes of ecology, in 2005 she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, draws on anti-war topics. The first big series she drew was The Red Book, dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. She also writes fairy tales and poems, illustrates short stories.