'haze'

Daria Kolomiiets

The idea behind the book prototype is to convey the feeling of 'haziness' from a person's with post-soviet background point of view. A collection of images and graphics transmits the emotions fragmentally, as if they've almost been pulled out of context. However, each one overlaps with a certain memory, created based on the stories of family members and other people who have experienced living on USSR, historical facts and other sources. These memories portray how post-soviet youth has been slowly becoming more knowledgable and aware of the events from the past of their nations, which used to be a part of USSR, and how they began to relate more and more to their culture and traditions, moving away from the destructive regime of the past century's authorities.

The name 'haze' describes the notion of being partially unaware of the truth, being on the process of discovering the facts and evidences of the crimes that the government was committing to minorities and nations with non-russian background. Taking into consideration the present-day events, many young people start to realise the impact of caused damage, by collecting these bits of their own and other people's memories into a bigger picture.