Anastasiia Lisnycha - Dove

This modest relief—part of Lisnycha’s ongoing Garden of Thoughts—casts a single dove against a stylized checkerboard ground. Rendered in soft plaster and tinted pigment, the bird becomes both inhabitant and emblem of the mind’s inner orchard: fragile, transient, yet marked by quiet presence.

Just as her triptych transforms thoughts into sculpted flora, this little “messenger” suggests the fly-away nature of ideas. It reminds us that each passing notion, like a bird in flight, leaves its subtle trace on the cultivated landscape of our consciousness.

This work was featured in Forsythia, an exhibition presenting selected works from HIDDEN’s Best of AVU Summer 2025 editorial.