PICTURE PROMPT
PISCES
Pisces… Sometimes it seems to me that dead people are reborn in them. A part of the series of graphics called “Renaissance Pisces”, this work builds on the legend that fish are equal to people, and sometimes they are the souls of people…
Irina Tall (Artist)
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Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, and illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor’s degree in design and writes fairy tales and poems, and illustrates short stories.
Her 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, drawing 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 loves to draw various fantastic creatures: unicorns, and animals with human faces, and especially likes the image of a man – a bird – Siren.
In 2020, she took part in Poznań Art Week. Her work has been published in magazines: Gupsophila, Harpy Hybrid Review, Little Literary Living Room and others. In 2022, her short story was included in the collection “The 50 Best Short Stories”, and her poem was
published in the collection of poetry “The wonders of winter”.
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