Sub Vultu (2022) Sculpture by Anastasia Nesterenko

How does a person become? How is it different from a simple animal? And why does a person become what he became?

I'm sure each of you at least once in your life asked similar questions.

My position is that the formation of a Human occurs every second, from his first breath at birth, and until the very last current moment. Moreover, not only from a physical point of view (growing up and aging), but also, for the most part, in the spiritual and moral aspects.

It can be what someone calls "soul", but not something constant and unchanging, but something dynamic and changing often, sometimes very much.

Throughout our lives, we see various events, participate in them, meet and lose different people, visit different places, gain new knowledge and experience from other people, and also draw our own conclusions, fight or give in to our fears, and so on.

In the end, all this together, to one degree or another, affects who we ultimately become.

And asking the question “why am I like this?”, the answer can be: I am like this, because my life was and is like that!

It is our ability to respond, change, and adapt to the conditions and challenges of life that distinguishes us from soulless objects like a stone or a statue. We, as creatures, are more plastic, and take the form that reflects the world around us.

It is these metamorphoses of a person as a being, and his soul, that I wanted to show you (and myself) in this picture.

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