the photo series .: OWL: 3? explores the mythological notions of the bashkir people regarding emptiness as a dangerous mystical force that materialises in space after a person’s departure — primarily embodied in the image of an empty house left behind after the owner’s death. the marker of emptiness is a nameless tree: no name, no essence.
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the series shows how, in bashkir mythology, emptiness is understood not as an absence, but as a boundary between worlds and a sign of loss.
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the concept is built around two key symbols: the owl (a symbol of emptiness) and the number 3 (a symbol of death).
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