Introducing Natural Clown

This is the very first image I’m sharing from a project that’s close to my heart.

Natural Clown is a visual experiment—part celebration, part provocation. It explores a playful and unapologetic use of color in nature, deliberately stepping away from the somber and reflective mood of my previous work, Chernobyl Series. Where Chernobyl Series was quiet and reverent, Natural Clown is loud, bold, and at times—delightfully absurd.

In this new work, nature wears a clown’s costume. It dances in loud hues, exaggerated contrasts, and twisted beauty. It’s a world where irony blooms alongside flowers, where the landscape itself seems to laugh—but never without a trace of something deeper behind the smile.

This series is also, in many ways, a self-portrait. As an artist—and as an actor—I’ve always lived close to transformation. I step into roles, into moods, into other skins. Natural Clown reflects that shapeshifting spirit: playful, theatrical, ironic. The project carries the same tension I often feel on stage or in front of the camera—between truth and mask, performance and vulnerability.

But behind the clown’s painted face lies a deeper truth.

Just as the colors in these images have been altered, so too do we alter the natural world—often without hesitation, and rarely without consequence. We reshape ecosystems, repaint landscapes, and leave our fingerprints on everything we touch. We do it thoughtlessly, carelessly—even joyfully. That contradiction is at the core of this project: beauty and interference, joy and consequence, color and cost.

Natural Clown is an invitation to look closer. To laugh, yes—but also to ask questions. About how we see the world, and what we do to it. About the roles we play—and the ones we force onto nature.

More works will follow. For now, I’m curious to hear what you see.