Artist Statement

Growing up in the city, I was a good and active student in school, played numerous musical instruments, danced, sang in a choir. In summers I spent time singing folk songs and weaving carpets, knitting and crocheting, doing garden work, alongside my grandmother. While everybody in the city predicted that I would go into politics in my home country (Moldova in Eastern Europe), my grandmother quietly nurtured my artistic passions. She once told me how my hands and creativity would take me a long way.