The Ob and The Irtysh

Marina continues to make entire cities fall in love with her work with her incredible stylistics. And no one knows more about semantic content of the visual image than she does:

"Khanty-Mansiysk stands on the confluence of two rivers – the Irtysh and the Ob. This work is my interpretation of yin and yang, masculinity and feminity, day and night, terrestrial and underwater world.

The composition is divided into 2 parts.

The Irtysh. You can see a face of a man above the water. His eyes are open, he is open to the world, looking at flying birds in the sky. His face seems to grow out of the picturesque green bank of the river with a little cozy house.

The Ob is a face of a girl under the water. Her eyes are closed, she looks deep inside herself. She is surrounded by stars and fish passing by.

Their common silhouette resembles a planet, which, like Saturn, is surrounded by rings.

I like to create works where different meanings and images overlap each other forming freakish pictures, when a viewer thinks of new interpretations and stories" (c) Marina Yagoda

Photographer Pavel Ivanov