I am Olka, an emerging Ukrainian artist based in California. My practice is intuitive and experimental, spanning collage, photographic processes, drawing, printmaking, and watercolor. Recently, audio has become another material in my collaging practice.

Through research, personal reflection, and trust in the process, I explore how the past, present, and future move through subjective experience as nonlinear and coexisting rather than sequential. My work holds what that coexistence carries: grief, gratitude, rage, hope, acceptance, longing, and a search for home and understanding of what that entails. I follow the process and material where they lead, letting each work hold layers of time and connections that stay open and unresolved.