A double Portrait of me and my Mother

by Yelena Tylkina

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A double Portrait of me and my Mother

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Yelena Tylkina

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Drawing - Drawing

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A portrait of my mother, Anna Tylkina, who passed away this year 1928-2021.
Anna Tylkina was a climbing rose — but with a lot of prickly and, at times, painful thorns. She survived Stalin’s repression, WWII, the highs and lows of the Soviet Era, and immigrated to the US during perestroika. She was happy in her new place in Brooklyn, and with the Senior Center she attended and the circle of friends that she became part of. She was always the most active member in that circle, always engaging in dancing, theater, exercise and so many other things. I will continue to celebrate her life-loving spirit in my every artistic endeavor and I will add this new time-consuming art form to the test. My mother was my muse, who posed for me (even in the nude!) since I was twelve. She was a cloud-like silver bullet through my head. But I survived the shooting and that bullet has become my talisman, my good-luck charm, as I venture into the new, the unknown.

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