María Obraztsova Zavrodina
Art as a Journey of Awareness and Transformation
Contemporary Visual Artist | Psychological Symbolism, Identity & Transformation
Current Projects
The Spiral of Generations
Inherited Patterns, Awakening and Liberation
The Spiral of Generations is an ongoing series exploring the transmission of restrictive beliefs and emotional patterns across generations of women.
For centuries, patriarchal social and cultural structures have influenced women's identities, opportunities, and relationships. Expectations of obedience, self-sacrifice, dependence, and conformity have often been transmitted through families and communities, becoming internalized even when their origins are no longer consciously recognized.
Woman - Bird
Metamorphosis, Consciousness and the Emergence of a New Identity
The bird represents the possibility of freedom, movement, and transcendence. Yet the metamorphosis is neither immediate nor effortless. It unfolds through a complex interaction of psychological awareness, bodily transformation, vulnerability, and emerging strength.
Marilyn Monroe — Behind the Icon
Beauty, Identity & the Price of Freedom
Marilyn Monroe I (2003)
Marilyn Monroe II (2003)
Behind the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe lies the story of a woman struggling to define herself beyond the roles imposed upon her.
From Norma Jeane to Marilyn Monroe, her transformation was both an extraordinary act of self-creation and a profound contradiction: the woman who reinvented herself became trapped within the image the world demanded of her.
Her beauty, vulnerability, ambition, and tragic destiny reveal the tension between public expectations and personal identity, between the desire to be loved and the need to be free.
These themes resonate with The Spiral of Generations and Woman–Bird, where inherited patterns, psychological confinement, and the struggle for self-determination become central elements of the artistic narrative.
Through Marilyn's image, the exploration of feminine identity extends beyond the individual portrait, raising a deeper question: What remains of a woman when the world sees only the image it has created of her?