I am an artist. My canvas is the walls. High, wide, rough surfaces that turn into art under my hands. It’s hard work: paint, solvents, stepladders, long hours of tension, stretching the body in the strangest poses. And you know what? I do it without underwear.

It’s pure physics. Underwear restricts movement, presses, rubs, twists under clothes. It distracts. When I work, I need complete concentration – on the brush, on the strokes, on the scale and perspective. I must be in harmony with the process, and not squeezed by narrow straps or feel uncomfortable folds of fabric under the overalls.

I kept quiet about it for a long time, but then I decided – why not ask you? How does it look from the outside? Is it normal that I choose comfort and freedom for the sake of work that requires me to fully immerse myself? How would you react to such an artist in your home?

Because if in Ukraine this may be acceptable among my clients, then in other countries I am not sure that this can be perceived normally. I will have to work for a long time for a foreign client on painting a fresco in the near future and I wonder if I will encounter misunderstanding. I need your advice