The best place to work is at home in Ukraine. No matter how beautiful and tempting the world around you is, after a short aesthetic and creative euphoria abroad, filled with impressions, you fly back home to express everything you have accumulated, seen and experienced emotionally. For me, Ukraine is a miracle of miracles. There is nothing like it in the world: fertile land, people, customs, traditions, folklore, folk art, songs, fairy tales, legends, and ancient mounds with their inexhaustible messages to us... This is the lifeblood of my work. And that makes me feel somehow selfishly happy that I was born here on this earth... Serving art is something like a scale "either material or spiritual". And no material dividends can compensate for that rare moment when you realise that what you create raises you one step further, somewhere in the realm of the perfection of the Spirit...