The English word scry (to scry) signifies a divination practice – an intensive gazing at reflective surface or an object (crystal ball, for instance) in order to instigate visions and gain “otherworldly knowledge” that “reveals” (predicts) the future.

The title Scrying symbolically determines series of seven mix media drawings on paper (21 x 30 cm, framed 55 x 60 cm), and three photographs (21 x 30 cm). 

The works are conceived as a result of visual and metaphoric redrawing (remapping) of the western landscape: they represent an attempt to modify meanings that this landscape, as physical and mythological space, entails. The western movie as a genre and the landscape romanticized and mythologized by that genre were starting points and the first conceptual premise of these mix media drawings (Monument Valley or the scene from the western movie One Upon a Time in the West is used).

The American West became a symbol of freedom and hope through Hollywood western:  that hope was a hope for a better life – hope for new possibilities. At the same time, the genre of Hollywood western was a conceptual embodiment of the American society and the way of life: America is the county “without borders” (with no borders in a physical and metaphorical sense).