The one who learned to watch without touching
This print captures what's visible: a leopard with crisp rosettes, the aviator helmet with the goggles on top, and the turtleneck of his cornflower blue sweater peeking out. I created it front-on and with a clean background: on a wall, it needs nothing around it. As a child, in the Barabash forest, his grandmother stopped him in front of fresh leopard tracks in the snow and made him follow the trail with his eyes until it vanished among the birches. They never saw the animal. From that afternoon came what is now his face: watching without needing to touch.







