The Heartbeats Of Tsarino
Tsarino Artist Recidency is a recurring international project in which invited artists create site-specific works in—and in direct relation to—an abandoned and severely decayed village in southern Bulgaria.
I selected three rooms in one of the houses and made subtle interventions on the walls using charcoal and graphite. I then photographed the rooms and used the prints to construct a collage combining photography, drawing, and text—a form of narrative in which the abandoned houses were reanimated in a new material form. My intention was to pierce the surface of the houses and reveal their inner stories. Or, perhaps more accurately, to create one—to grant them a new voice.
