Series If Self-Portraits With Chickens From Costco

• Prize
  Gold in People/Self-Portrait
• Photographer
  Ekaterina Tsurkina-Appina

It is just a small, reflective, provocative series by the author about the complexities of abusive relationships. It is about where purity and meaning have been erased, and it seems like there is no way out of such poor-quality relationships. It is about the corners and challenges we put ourselves through. It is about the forms we distort on our own. We gut each other like chickens, completely forgetting about all the human values and reasons for our existence in this world. We will gut one chicken, throw it away, and take another one to gut. Where have we all gotten lost and tripped?

I try to create something that brings me closer to myself. I do not create and try not to support certain trends, styles, vectors of vision. As much as possible, of course, because everything has been created for a long time, and one flows from the other into the third. But each person is more unique, because only he/she/they knows how to feel, based on their own accumulated potential, choose strategies and create something especial. I erase all restrictions, comparisons, my own ideas, expectations, imposed boundaries, value judgments, standards, racing processes. I go into my inner depths.