On August 9, 2026, for the fourth time at the same time, I’m visiting Sosnovka. It’s no longer even an experiment; it’s more of a tribute to this strange place. I’m no longer looking for new subjects there; I’m photographing the same places... deliberately and consciously.
I create temporary coordinate points.
I don’t know; I’ll probably never understand, never grasp, and certainly never make any kind of discovery in the theory of eternalism (the existence of the past, present, and future simultaneously), but at least I want to keep digging deeper and explore this topic.
Over the years, I’ve come to understand and feel time a little differently — not as an event, but as a state.
This state manifests itself physically, as if I can feel the vibe (vibrations)... or, as I also like to call it, the smell of time.
Photos are the amplifiers and conduits for all of this. And each time, I find myself thinking more and more about what exactly a photograph is.
I look at the picture, and my body literally begins to reconfigure itself, connecting, immersing itself in that atmosphere, in that time, in that state I was in. It’s as if I’m adopting that state of mind (and maybe a bit of the body) from that time, I start thinking the same way I did back then, wanting the same things I wanted back then.
I can immerse myself in it so deeply that I can smell the scents and hear the sounds. It’s as if the receptors and other sense organs also take on that state.
That’s why I believe that the past and any other time are a coordinate point of a certain state that can manifest at any time.
But how do you pull all this off now with the future? They say you need to visualize... and there’s some sense to that — that is, to immerse yourself in a state as if it already exists. But it’s easier in words than in practice. Although I’ve done it before, and more than once. By the way, Sosnovka has something to do with it...
