In Ondine, Irina invites us into a sacred dialogue between art and ocean, matter and spirit. This collection is born not from the studio alone, but from long and solitary walks along the Caribbean shorelines and the Gulf coast. With each step, Irina listens to the rhythms of the tide, gathering shells and feathers in a ritual of presence, intuition, and reverence.

 

Every fragment she collects holds a story shaped by salt, time, and tide. These materials, selected not for perfection but for resonance, become the palette for compositions that are both poetic and precise. The resulting artworks radiate stillness and movement at once—spirals of shells, luminous whites, volcanic blacks, and coral hues that evoke the primal memory of water and origin.

 

Ondine is not only a visual experience. It is a return. A meditation on impermanence. A soft insistence on the beauty of preservation and the strength of silence. Each piece becomes an altar to the sea—an honoring of nature’s cycles, and a quiet act of care in an increasingly fractured world.

 

Through this collection, Irina transforms the overlooked into the essential. Her hands trace the tides. Her work becomes a hymn.