In a quiet meadow as the sun set, a girl handed a bouquet of wildflowers to a fearsome dragon."You're fierce," she said softly, "but promise me you won't scare anyone again. If you stop crying, your flowers will grow."The dragon, touched by her words, nodded. "I promise, for you," he said.From then on, the dragon kept his promise. He no longer frightened anyone and protected the meadow. As he stopped crying, the meadow bloomed with beautiful flowers, symbolizing their newfound connection and love. The artist was born in the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan, part of the former USSR. She studied not only visual art, but also music, dance, and architecture academically. This varied and diverse education provided her with a synesthetic understanding, developing her capacity to translate music into visuals and movement, as all these forms of expressions are animated, in her view, by the same energy source. Inessa has called Singapore home for the last 18 years.At the time the educational model in Kazakhstan was the Russian one, with a big stress on technique, versus concept. The artist had the chance to focus on the conceptual aspect of her practice at a later time, when she enrolled in the prestigious art college Central Saint Martins in London. This opened up the artist to a variety of expressive possibilities. She complemented her artistic studies in Oxford, where she learned about the nitty-gritty of building herself as an artist within the art system. www.InessaK.com Singapore

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