34/52 Maria Kravchenko

34/52 Maria Kravchenko

“You know I actually sat down the other day and realized that as a kid I hated museums. My parents forced me to go to museums with them but I just literally hated it. I knew that there's a certain value to it, but it didn't speak to me. I was already expressing through art as a kid but It would be like 17th century pieces and things that couldn’t reflect on my experience.

I needed to grow up and mature and explore on my own. Slowly I started seeing the value of it for me, appreciating the little things, the detail, the thought, the the technique, the uniqueness of ideas, you know?

Sometimes you just don't know how to evaluate art and it's such a human pattern to think of it in terms of good and bad, so oftentimes pieces that are not understood are being categorized as ‘not good’. I think it's a beautiful process for us to try and ask more questions rather than come to a determination very quickly. With art and beyond.”