Anastasia Kossolapova, Ana for short, is a peculiar curious creature who still isn’t convinced she’s an artist. In fact, she’s fairly certain artists need patience, which she absolutely does not possess. Sitting still is torture, focusing too long is suspicious, and honestly? She’s just a bit TOO lazy for the whole “serious artist” identity.
She first appeared on Earth in Ixelles, Belgium, though her household atmosphere was unmistakably Russian; complete with Russian language, Russian moods, and probably a few Russian superstitions. Growing up between these two cultures, Ana developed an early talent for not quite fitting anywhere, a skill that would later become essential to her creative life.
Currently she is wandering through the Liberal Arts program at Sint-Lukas, where she paints, searches, learns, experiments, and does about seventeen other things depending on her attention span that day. Strangely, despite all this activity, the academy sometimes feels to her like a groundhog’s den; repetitive, predictable, and slightly too cozy for someone itching for change... Especially when she feels a bit too empty. So naturally, she fills her non-school hours doing unexplainable, chaotic, occasionally brilliant things around the house, hoping that somewhere between the madness she will stumble across her own truth.
Meanwhile, Ana continues her eternal quest of asking herself who she is, who she was, and who keeps moving her things when she’s not looking.
At Sint-Lukas, she is currently navigating one year project wxith three specific topics she had chosen:
- Inner Worlds; where she willingly dives into the labyrinth of her own brain (a risky choice)
- Humans and Artificial Intelligence; because somebody has to figure out whether the machines or the humans are weirder.
- Nature as a Mirror of the Soul; which conveniently aligns with her love for nature, especially mushrooms, herbs, weeds, and everything that grows without asking permission.
Ana’s artistic journey is less of a straight line and more of a chaotic spiral, but spirals are natural, organic, and often found in mushrooms, so she considers that a good sign.
If she ever becomes an artist, it will probably be by accident.