August 2008 Site Installation for the Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut
still life of the living matters
This installation features a monochromatic group of three-dimensional simplified and abstracted structures of varying sizes constructed of wood and branches covered in plaster and textured fabric. Still Life of the Living Matters seeks to renew living substances through art. For Shevelkin, a refugee from the former Soviet Union, this installation appears after years of careful thought and progression of creative explorations and discoveries in work with different media. Shevelkin hopes the viewer will observe the “interactions between organic and geometric form, stripped of any symbolic implications; simple objects creating their own unique environment and inner world that are presented to us to observe and challenge our imagination and our habits of seeing and interpreting [subject matter].”