Caustic: Several words about yourself, please

Alexandreev: On my opinion, there are 2 types of artists (in the broad sense of the word) those who's life is resemble to their work (they don't make any difference between their life and the art) and those who have the storm of passions just inside of their skull and from the outside their life seems to be dull and without any adventures.
I belong to the second group, that's why I can tell just a few words about myself.
I am 30 year old. I live in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, I am professionally engaged in graphical design. Basically this is the development of the company style and polygraphy design. Besides that I draw continually. Frankly speaking I have not still decided for myself (and it looks like I will never do it) What is more interesting for me is design or graphics. These two spheres occupy me equally.
Previously I had several personal exhibitions? But I prefer to expose my works in the Internet. Due to free publication you never know what a careless user will face your drawings.

Caustic: How long are you engaged with the art?

Alexandreev: As long as I remember myself. My parents told me, (I don't remember myself), that all walls in our flat were covered with the drawings I made with my color pencils. After that was the artistic school, then university. I have never stopped drawing. After graduating from the university I stayed as a teacher there. I taught students to draw. Nowadays I try to devote all my leisure time to the artistic work.

Caustic: What inspires you and your art?

Alexandreev: It is quite a difficult question. I can answer it differently. For example, like this: The impulse could be given by a fragment of a dream, by unexpected combination of visual impressions (in a movie or in the life) or just by a scene of inexplicable origin inside my brain.
Usually I prefer not to think about what really happens. But sometimes I can't do anything with my sick imagination and different rash ideas. My own and caught from the air - penetrate my head.
For example an idea that all the possible information in the world already exists. All the matter is to extract it from the surrounding world. And I like a Laplas's daemon try to separate sense from nonsense and somehow interpret it by my intellectual apparatus.
What is definitely not happen with it's plot creation. All what I draw is not a result of through thinking. It exists in a real world, it is true.

Caustic: What do you attempt to reach in the art if we think of it as of a career?

Alexandreev: I earn my living by some other things (I am an employee in an advertising agency) and I don't consider the art as a career. I don't seek the success and recognition, my career is internal, my motivation is curiosity, fear and excitement.

Caustic: If you continue to do what you are currently occupied with, how do you see your future?

Alexandreev: Of course it would be great if my current work will get a world wide recognition one day. On the other hand, it is not necessarily at all. It will cause some limitations, internal censorship. Nothing except my own taste makes some limitations to my creative activity now. After all it was not for nothing when Japanese artists changed their name in the moment of fame.
The freedom is the most precious thing for me.

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