Yuri Vissarionov

Juri Gennadievich Vissarionov: I treat nature as a greatest manifestation of joy. Desert, forest, sea – everything is gorgeous. And what is man-made is not that great. You appreciate natural environment, when only artificial surrounds you. But an architect always is an urbanist. A man plus technical progress means death to nature. This is sad, but still a fact. Architects are like wood fretters that make burrows and holes in the ground. Urban seizes by the throat and makes go and feast eyes on flowering sakura (birch-tree, guelder-rose). Admitting inevitability of ‘progress’ man gets jealous of nature and creates eco-landscape – urban park. It is IMPORTANT to define degree and proportions of imitating nature. And to realize that we can’t create like God and we ought to preserve what we have. The main theme that interests me is of nature, organic, almost virtual spaces for esoteric and thinking. Proportions of nature forms and of what I create. It’s amusing to make up landscapes of mythic planets and place them onto moon deserts of our Soviet and post-soviet locations.