My name is Margarita Simonova. I am an academic artist-sculptor. My creative direction is balanced between academic realism and impressionism. With my series of works "Shells" - "Pearls", I consider several aspects at once. The first task that I set myself is the revival of love for female nature. In our age, the line between a man and a woman is being washed away by fashion, behavior, ideals of beauty of the face and body. I'm not saying it's bad, but I want to show that "it" is not the only possible existence. Girls are beautiful! Their warm soft forms, their enveloping nature, their natural nature, which does not have to be squeezed into the framework of "oversize". I want both men and women to see the beauty in a woman's nature. Also now in my work I am interested in the disclosure of the concept of "Soul.Bodies.Reason." Where is the beginning of one phenomenon and the end of another? How to depict these movements? I am looking for ways to convey to people my thoughts about these three phenomena by comparing them with things we understand - a pearl shell. Is the soul a pearl? And the mind is the softness of the shell? Or is the mind a pearl? "Who is Who?" – the viewer decides for himself. I set myself the task of speaking in the language of art not about emotions - rude and vivid experiences, but about feelings that are not so loud, but they are one of the highest manifestations of the human spirit and mind. The feeling differs from the emotional impulses of the soul in complexity, and I convey this subtle multicoloration of the states of the inner world of a person with the mother-of-pearl shell. I consider the phenomenon of shells and pearls to be unique. The way something foreign gets inside a closed world, over time, becomes part of it, and how at the same time the softness of the shell plays with this guest-grain of sand, enveloping it with itself and making it a part of itself – this process is akin to human relationships. And akin to the concepts of "Soul.Body.The mind.”

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