Anastasia Pribelskaya
The wildflowers of the northern landscapes, meticulously crafted from glass by Anastasia Pribelskaya, serve as an invitation to shift our habitual ways of seeing.
Anastasiya is invited to join the gallery as a guest artist. Using the lampworking technique, she carefully shapes heated glass rods into delicately detailed petals and stems, capturing each fragile phase of a flower’s life—from tightly furled bud to its eventual withering. The precision of her craftsmanship is matched by the sensitivity with which she observes the natural world.
In her work, the human is no longer the center of the universe. Instead, the focus moves toward elements of the ecosystem that are often overlooked or dismissed as background. Flora—so frequently reduced to mere decoration—takes the foreground, not as an object of passive admiration, but as an autonomous life form. Her flowers do not exist to be seen; they assert their own intrinsic value and presence, independent of human attention.
Through this shift in perspective, Pribelskaya raises quiet but profound questions about the place of humanity in the order of things. Her glass flowers become a poetic meditation on the essential, often invisible roles that non-human life plays in sustaining the universe.
