In Absence
Year: 2024
Material/Technique: Paper, Pencil, Graphite, Mixed Media
Size: 50 × 40 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed:Included
About the Work
- Year
- 2024
- Material/Technique
- Paper, Pencil, Graphite, Mixed Media
- Size
- 50 × 40 cm
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Included
- Frame
- Included
- Work Certificate
- Not Set
- Category
- Drawing
- Style
- Conceptual
Work Details
Concept and Intention of the Artwork
InAbsence explores the significance of what is no longer present. The figure seems to hold onto a small flame in the darkness, suggesting the feeling of searching for something that is missing from their world. The surrounding emptiness creates a sense of an invisible boundary, leaving the meaning of the moment open. The work reflects on how absence can sometimes feel more powerful than presence, and how things left unspoken can still carry meaning.
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What You Want to Express Through the artwork
The work reflects on the things we continue to feel even when they are no longer within reach. Absence can leave a space behind, but that space is not necessarily empty. Memories, feelings, and things left unsaid can remain there, sometimes becoming more powerful precisely because they cannot be seen. The flame represents that small but persistent presence within the darkness.
Production Methods and Tools
Water-soluble graphite and mechanical pencil on watercolor paper
Production Time
Created over several months
Production Location
Created in my home studio in Tokyo. I currently work in a small space within my living environment, where I develop and create my drawings.
Thoughts on the Artwork and Title
The title InAbsence refers to the feeling of something being present through its absence. What is missing can sometimes occupy more space in our thoughts than what is physically in front of us. The title is intentionally open, leaving room for the viewer to decide what the absence might mean and what the flame might represent.
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Artist
Contemporary Artist and Illustrator
Pliska Dasha is a Ukrainian artist based in Tokyo. Her drawings come out of the feelings people tend to carry silently — memory, love, longing, the unspoken wish to be understood — and try to give those feelings a place to rest.
She believes art is one of the few spaces where we are allowed to meet our own emotions without fear, without needing to name them or resolve them. Everything in her practice follows from that belief: the hand on paper, the slowness, the monochrome, the willingness to leave a drawing quiet rather than dress it up.
She was born in Odesa, and the war in Ukraine moves through her work as a shadow rather than a subject. It is the reason she pays attention to small, tender things and trusts them. What she hopes a viewer finds in her drawings isn't a statement about any of this — only the recognition of a feeling they already knew, and the permission to feel it for a moment without having to hide it.
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What is Sticker?
Drawing has been part of my life for as long as I can remember, and I hope to keep creating for many years to come. Your support through Stickers helps me make new work, explore new ideas, and gradually create opportunities to show it in Japan and beyond. Thank you for supporting something that has been such an important part of my life.
物心ついた頃から、絵を描くことはずっと自分の人生の一部でした。これからも長く作品を作り続けていきたいと思っています。Stickerでいただくご支援は、新しい作品を制作し、新しい表現を試し、日本やその先で作品を発表していくための大きな支えになります。自分にとって大切なものを応援してくださることに、心から感謝しています。