They appear themselves – cats, flowers, birds, animals, trees. They are not invented, they are real. The world in Lilya Garipova’s pictures is live, tender, clear, poetic. It really exists, it has its own magic space and it hasn’t time dimension. It is imbued by mystery of being.

Every picture is like meditation, like going to the heart of the images of kindness and peace, images of childhood. To comprehend the mystery of yourself, draw the mystery of an animal or a tree.

These works seem to carry out information from the very depth of the ocean – from human unconscious, and this information is revealed tenderly and brightly.

As if you have seen all this in your dreams. But you have woken up and the dream has gone into the depth of unconscious. In Lilya’s pictures that depth is being revealed again – as night, as blue haze, as an abyss, as the realm of light, terrific, symbolic dreams, which live their own life, by their own rules.

The pictures-dreams touch on deeply hidden symbols in yourself. And that is why you long for looking at them continuously. For looking and recognizing. Have a look at them, and you will recall, you will recognize this world, it exists in you too!

Unexpected images shine from the pictures and wake a soul: look at the world, it may not be the world that you are used to see. Dissolve your stereotypes of perception. See with the eye of your soul, who you are in fact. And who are we in the Universe? Think – will you live in this body forever?

…And there came a little man with a cane – a hero of old fairy-tales. He looked into the soul, into the very heart pronouncedly and said to the artist: “If you don’t sing, we’ll eat you”. And the artist “sings” – that is draws, paints because it is said – create, otherwise you don’t exist.

She draws as she breathes, she creates and it means she realizes her soul, it means she is happy giving up her heart with love.

Sing and save the human heart. Listen to beauty and peace in yourself. And you, spectator, look and recall, in yourself find the mystery of this world – of the very world which always existed before you and will always exist after. What is the most wonderful thing – there is one great mystery in it, which cannot be fully guessed. And in this lies its power – tender power of mystery. Lilya’s works give the feeling of touching this mystery - subtly, tenderly, delicately. As if a child investigates the world, experiencing his first meeting with eternity.

Thank you, Lilya. Draw for people’s joy. I wish you success! You are smart – I say this as artist to artist.