Tetiana Yatsechko-Blazhenko

Architecture of a Dream#

Artist’s Statement#

This work combines my photograph of Gdańsk with fragments of my own painting. By layering painterly textures over the cityscape, the image transforms the familiar architecture into an abstract space where memory and imagination reshape the urban landscape.

Urban Aura#

Artist’s Statement#

This work is based on my photograph of Gdańsk, a city where history, water, and architecture continuously interact with the changing sky. I was drawn to the quiet moment of sunset over the river, when the city appears calm and grounded.

Over this photographic foundation, I introduced expressive abstract gestures that move through the sky like currents of energy. These marks disrupt the realism of the scene and transform the familiar cityscape into something more emotional and dreamlike. The swirling forms suggest movement, memory, and the invisible forces that shape how we experience a place.

About the Artist#

Tetiana Yatsechko-Blazhenko is a Ukrainian writer and visual artist. Her work has appeared in literary journals including Shot Glass Journal, Eleventh Hour Literary, Corncrake Magazine, Sheepshead Review, Plants & Poetry Journal, Haunted Words Press, Foxylit, Indigo, and Love You. Daily. Afterword. She is also a contributing author to the anthologies Tidings (Anomaly Poetry), Men’s Appreciation (Quillkeepers Press), and Rituals & Remedies, Vol. 2, as well as to Koromyslo (almanac), KOLOS (literary and artistic almanac), the poetry collection Whisper of Sisters (co-author), and the children’s collection Kryshtalynky: A Fairy Tale Winter 2025–2026 (co-author). She won in the prose category of the 2025 Odesa Miniature contest and placed second in the prose category of the 2025 Chuhuiv Miniature contest.