Oleksandra Soldanchyn is a first-year student majoring in Computer Science at the IT College of Lviv Polytechnic. In today's difficult times, she combines studies with volunteering and hobbies - design, drawing and animation 2D / 3D.
This year, the student has created a special creative work dedicated to Easter. Oleksandra says that everyone will see something for himself in her work, so she does not impose a single interpretation. About the composition's symbolism she says:
- The girl on the illustration symbolizes each of us, our future and our country, which depends on each of us, and each must make some effort for it. For me, the pysanka is a symbol of new life, rebirth. The girl is dressed in military uniform, she is military, that is, she defends Ukraine, sovereignty, and, in fact, an egg that symbolizes new lives and a new generation. Buxus (plant) is a symbol of vitality, and the flag is the state symbol of Ukraine.
Interesting is the fact that the pysanka is from Pokuttia, a historical and geographical region of Ukraine, the eastern part of the modern Ivano-Frankivsk region. On the Easter egg there is depicted the traditional «rose» or «star», which symbolizes the sun and the morning star. The ornamentation is traditional: a clear enlarged pattern of geometric motifs, the contour of the traditional white colour. Pysanka in the colours of the earth is a burgundy rose on a black background, the color of the earth, because Pokuttia is famous for its fertile soils.
What are you interested in at IT College? Oleksandra answers:
- I entered the college because of the intensity of modern technologies and because of the need for specialists in these fields, because in modern society, additional emphasis is placed on technology. Among my favorite subjects in college there are computer science, mathematics, drawing, economics, geography, chemistry, biology, and the defense of Ukraine.
More of Oleksandra’s works you can see on her Instagram page.
