The series is built on the intertwining of the personal and the collective, the real and the imagined. At its core are fragments of an old cookbook found in a rented apartment in Georgia, and self-portraits created in Nizhny Tagil during a period of the pandemic, loneliness, and personal turbulence.

Fantastical images, fragments of dreams, random words, and quotations from the book become material for a new narrative. The personal body and personal experience are “cut into” the context of Soviet domestic instructions — a text once intended to regulate the life of a housewife. Within these collages, personal vulnerability collides with universal social scripts; the playful meets the serious, the abstract meets the concrete.

The series creates a space where past and present enter into dialogue — not about how to “properly cook dinner”, but about how our own menu of memory is constructed: what it consists of, what is preserved within it, and what disappears.