Examining the inner melancholy being nostalgic for the motherland.
Materials: clay, glaze.
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"Where is it, that lofty sky that I did not know till now, but saw today?" was his first thought. "And I did not know this suffering either," he thought. "Yes, I did not know anything, anything at all till now. But where am I?"
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Chapter XIX
After six years of living abroad, Ekaterina explores her feelings about being away from her motherland. She expresses her melancholy in the artwork she called Oblako - a metaphor of the well-forgotten Russian sky. It represents her childhood spent in the Moscow countryside surrounded by fields and endless skies.