Backlit self-portrait with pierced photograph, evoking memory of the artist’s mother, from The Light of My Life I Never See by Yanina Shevchenko
Backlit self-portrait with pierced photograph, evoking memory of the artist’s mother, from The Light of My Life I Never See by Yanina Shevchenko
Backlit self-portrait with pierced photograph, evoking memory of the artist’s mother, from The Light of My Life I Never See by Yanina Shevchenko
Backlit self-portrait with pierced photograph, evoking memory of the artist’s mother, from The Light of My Life I Never See by Yanina Shevchenko
Backlit self-portrait with pierced photograph, evoking memory of the artist’s mother, from The Light of My Life I Never See by Yanina Shevchenko

Her name means light... Svetlana. Sveta. Svet. She is my mother. She is the light of my life that I never see. But I know it is there, I always feel it.

Her life was short but bright, like a bolt of lightning that filled the lives of so many for a fraction of time with only her magical kind of light.

We shared together way too few years; I recollect not many memories of her, but I believe the objects I own that once belonged to her still carry her special light.

The Light of My Life That I Never See