Have you ever seen a Mykhailivska girl who carefully places a new t-shirt in the middle of the street straight into the sewer hatch? Are you surprised? Nothing surprising, just Oksana Naumchuk puts forth all kinds of artifacts so that the ordinary thing turns into a unique one. Well, the artistic means, to have your own
“In my childhood I was very enthusiastic, I loved coloring, painting lessons. Everyone is going to break out of the lesson, and I’m sitting, I’m doing something. I went to some studios, but I did not give the art school for lack of time – I always had a million circles. Tattoo is well redrawing, and I’m like it. Therefore, now I want not only to learn to paint myself better, but also to come up with something new. The most difficult thing is an idea. She can appear in the head, but transferring it to paper is difficult»
“Sometimes ideas are born easily, by inspiration. And sometimes it’s necessary to be stressed, to work, to see what has been done by someone. Do something to sculpt yourself. Talking about the sources of inspiration makes no sense, because everyone has something of their own»
“My world … I like to be in nature, go to farms, and if I had the opportunity to sit there and work, I would happily do it. But I cannot, because I need the Internet for contacts with people, “New Mail” to send orders, shop with colors, if they end up with me. And if I am far from civilization, then there must either be an endless supply of everything in the world, or you have to sit in the city. And then I can work with people. Drawing on clothes is such a thing that does not allow escape from civilization»
“Three years ago, I bought a co-worker and wanted to make a Petrikov painting on them. Once I went to the studio, we painted “petrykivka” there, but on a wooden basis, and not on a fabric. And I did not have any paints or other materials. Then I found a girl in Lutsk, who painted for me a friend. They were so cool that when I was rubbing my sole in a month, I just sat and roared. I have repaired them; I was wearing them for two more years, wearing holes. Just fingers stuck out, and throwing out regretted, and then decided to try to apply a picture to the clothes herself. Then the friends painted T-shirts for gifts. I started to train. I did not have enough of my clothes to draw, and then I kissed my friends: “Well, let me make you something.” And last summer has already begun to receive orders »
“You can draw on any clothes: T-shirts, skirts, jeans, denim shirts. Even on covers, shoulder pads – all that made of fabric. I even painted a sandal»
“We now have a lot of network stores, and although stores in different cities, but in them the clothes are the same. You will arrive in Lutsk, Kiev, Lviv, and all people in the same clothes. And then the usual pure t-shirt can be made unique: cut, sew, and painted. I conducted master classes for children, everyone was delighted! When they themselves draw birds, flowers, someone leaves their fingerprints, they have so much fun! We conducted such master classes in a multinational village that children were united to. Such is an art weekend. And recently I was on the farm Chirvona Kastrichnik (Belarus), held weekends called “Vyaskovaya Mariya” (“Village dreams”). There were artists, blacksmiths, musicians. It was very interesting! ”
“Sometimes a person sits and goes:” Oh, I will not do anything. «I say: “Wait, you have to try. Will not work – I’ll help, we’ll fix everything. «People are beginning to try, everything succeeds, and everyone is delighted, and everyone is happy! We have to do what we have never done. And when they get out, it’s very inspiring»
“What, besides clothes, I painted? In childhood on paper, then on a tree, even on the wall I painted»
“I graduated from the music school, but I played there from the exam to the exam. Now I’m not playing, but my brother. I cannot sing, but I’m not mine. At the music school, you play on notes, but to play at the fire at night, you have to have a chord stock in my head, and I do not have them. Probably music is not my »
“I cannot say that I know painting. I just look at the masters who paint and study on clothes. Such an occupation for me is a huge pleasure and a way of self-realization. I graduated from the journalism, but to become a journalist … I do not know. Waiting for a chef’s assistant at a vegan restaurant. It’s interesting to me now »
“There is no easy work. It is difficult to work at all. Think, draw easily? Sometimes, the hand is hurting, but I tell myself that I have to finish, once started. I am responsible, and for me motivation is a sense of duty»
“Mom told me that after the end of the university money will not be given. Somehow I had to go to another city, and leave early in the morning. I assembled, and there is no money in the taxi to the station. I decided to go on foot to the station at five o’clock in the morning. Mom says: “Let’s give it money!” Well, I told her that I would walk all the same. Here it is necessary to keep his word: if I am independent, then in everything. We had to prove it to ourselves ”
“My family wears my work. I eventually painted a shirt with my father, his brother has t-shirts, jerseys, and he likes it. But since mom did something else for some reason, the hands did not reach ”
“I do not know what a” real man “means. I had a boy who earned well, but he did not see anything but work. It’s a bit boring. The man should be easy to climb, ready for some interesting ideas and he himself has the same ideas to give birth. I would love them to support. People at all should support each other. Still, it is necessary for a man to be intelligent or at least one who is interested in something in this life, so that he can talk about it»
“I would very much like to be independent; I try not to hold someone very much. Maybe that’s why I am very often by myself. On the one hand, it can be a problem, but on the other hand … Sometimes you see so many negative things in people that I do not even know … It may not be so bad»
“Moldova, Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, Belarus, France –  I have already seen these countries. Belarusians envy us: they have all the fines, everything is strict. We are more democratic. And then I got the impression that the Belarusians somehow do not know their country well. I asked that you can look, but somehow they are not very active in relation to local tourism. And I do not have the most associative number with regard to the Belarusian monuments. Some people call a country or a city, and there are associations in your head. And there was no such thing. Even in Poland I saw a lot of interesting things, many cities traveled. Coming soon to volunteer in Poland»
“I like to show my friends to Zhytomyr and tell about the city – about the Museum of Astronautics, about the cities, about the rocks, about the ice cream factory. I show nature, the river, even Kamianka. Graffiti shows, even once I was invited to a graffiti tour to hold – was preparing, the route paved myself. And I’m very happy when my guests say: “Oh! As in Zhytomyr a lot of interesting! ”
Translated by Aliona Matushevich