Microcosm

THIRTY DAYS SPENT SKATEBOARDING, ILLUSTRATING, AND CELEBRATING THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER IN SAINT PETERSBURG WITH YEKA HASKI

ILLUSTRATION


Yeka Haski is a Russian artist and character designer based in Saint Petersburg, known for playful creatures rendered in clean lines and saturated color. Her work spans illustration, animation, fashion, and interior design—always led by humor and action. In June 2014, Haski kept a diary during early summer. Each entry a fragment of her microcosm: skateboarding with friends, shooting promo videos for a women's football team, visiting a bio-art exhibition about bacteria and invisible life. She was designing an outdoor terrace for a creative space—a magic meadow on a roof populated by giant soft characters. Clouds, fried eggs, candy, caterpillars. On June 7, holding a friend's two-month-old baby, watching parents in their new roles. June 22: "All these little pieces, molecules, bacteria, the idea of the Matrioshka of life when one world is situated inside the other." June 27: aroma showers and morning sun. June 30: falling onto cloud pillows. This diary fragrance: playful, bouncing, smooth and round, the sound of a bell.

"While discovering Yeka Haski work, I instantly smelled fluffy pink candy floss, reminiscence of childhood, dissolving the adults’ world into a colorful sweetness: a kind of post-regressive ‘décalage’. I wanted to create a round smell that makes you feel happy, full of energy, bursting with joy! I imagined a fragrance around the smell of Carensac candy (a French candy with a licorice flavor), and I twisted it with an funky poetic floral and fruity accord of mandarin blossom, softened by pink musk!"
- PERFUMER, Jean Jacques

01.
We celebrated the begining of summer. I felt myself like a Happy Astroid flying from place to place meeting other planets.
02.
Worries Eating Hats
03.
Jump Jump
04.
Perfect Match
05.
Day 05
It seems I made a very stupid thing. My hope is melting day by day
06.
Microcosm Snarling
07.
Today i was on the kids birthday party of my friends (that was the first time i saw 2 month old Miroslava). During last year lot of friends became parents and that was so cute to see them in a new social role. I’m gonna do painting masterclass for elder kids on the next monthly ‘kids club’. I like not all the kids, but these are very nice & funny.
08.
Today we were shooting a promo video for fashionable sport competition First Club Cup. I’m gonna play football in the chicks team. Its kind of a new experience & i think it should be very funny.
09.
Jellyu Fun
10.
Endless Colors
11.
‘My lovely friend! Your incredible story inspires and proves magic existence. I’m happy you’re happy, come back soon please’
12.
Searching for Underwater Treasures
13.
A HAT wearing HAT wearing HAT wearing HAT wearing BANANA
14.
Cloud
15.
Microcosm
16.
Day 16 — Take Five
Take Five.
17.
I love this city. My friends have a wonderful view from the balcony of their design studio. We were playing ping-pong, chatting, making toys of wool and watching world cup.
18.
So cool that my friends also got a skateboard and we had lot of fun skating all day. Next time tomorrow!
19.
Thoughts are very flexible, but sometimes they are confused or terminated.
20.
Cup of coffee.
21.
The exhibition was connected to bio-art and biology. I love Microcosm…
22.
… All these little pieces, molecules, bacteria, the idea of the ‘Matrioshka’ of the life when one world is situated inside the other. Its kind of invisible secret right in front of my eyes and inside me.
23.
24.
These days me & my friend Nina Shterenberg who is a fashion designer were making our first set of dresses for a fashion store that ordered them. The days were really hard working but really cool.
25.
That was the project i was making during the whole june. Local creative space asked me to create a set of objects for the outdoor terrace. Firstly an idea was considered as a temporal art exhibition. Then i suggested to go more in design and make the objects functional. By the end we agreed to make a Magic Meadow on the Roof inhabited by huge soft characters such as drop of space, candy, clouds, fried egg, caterpillar…
26.
This dress was created specially for my art show, but it happened that people like it and want to buy.
27.
I love mornings! Taking aroma shower, enjoying morning sun, eating big tasty breakfast and having power to do many things.
28.
Hello. Goodby. How are you. I’m Fine — Saturday evening mood.
29.
A day on the beach with my little Super Hero.
30.
A dream to fall down on the cloud came true! I’m making a set of huge clouds pillows for an open air project.
   

Olfactive Journal

Microcosm

Perfumer — Jean Jacques

Carensac Candy Accord, mandarin blossom, pink musk.

06 / 2014

Series Statement

Over fixed periods, we invite artists to keep a diary with us — through audio, text, video, image.

They share textures, thoughts and experiences from that time.

At the diary’s close, our perfumer creates a fragrance — not as translation, but as portrait.

A period in the artist’s life,
filtered through another’s attention.

The scent becomes an anchor, but not for preservation.

For return. For continuation in another form.

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