My name is Karen Terzyan, I was born in the city of Yerevan (Armenia) in 1962. Due to the collapse of the USSR, the profession of an engineer became unclaimed in my country and me, like many of my compatriots, I had to rush about in search of my place in the new realities. And around 1993, I got the idea to establish a foundry and start fulfilling orders, which I did.

I was soon taken by a new idea, namely, the development of a foundry technology that would allow the reincarnation of living plants into bronze.

I worked on this idea for about 7-8 years and there was no limit to my joy when it started to turn out, and the similarity of the castings with the originals (living plants) was almost absolute.

The next subject of my inspiration was the idea of ​​creating sculptures of people from the obtained castings, where each element of the face would be some kind of plant, reincarnated in bronze, the totality of which implies the artistic meaning of the sculpture. This was my first creative concept in which I have been working for over 20 years and I never cease to be amazed at how accurately an ensemble of plants can express the depth of human feelings.

The second concept, which I call associative, is the reflection of our subconscious in the work. When contemplating the same work, depending on the mood, we see different variations, and the longer we peer into the work, the deeper we penetrate into ourselves. The hell and heaven, not in heaven but in ourselves.

The third concept, which I came to relatively recently and reluctantly, I confess, is connected with my fears for the fate of Homo sapiens.

The boasting of digital geniuses, which has become a trend in the theory of zeroing, the creation of something new by the human hand, which will also be considered a person, which until now was only the prerogative of the gods, disturbs and alarms me.

These experiences of mine are reflected in the works of this concept. Irreversible, degenerative deformation of our being is not the best end for the genus Homo sapiens.