a soul in search of a home

images and text by simona sharafudinov

the body is a vessel, temple, home

grief is the shadow of love

nature, texture, iceland, moody, photography, otherworldly iceland, underground, underworld, otherwordly, woodland,

to create from the ache—where grief follows love like a shadow. holding the tension: the pull between presence and loss, between tenderness and the void it leaves behind. every mark is a remembrance, a reaching toward what can’t be held, a way to honour what still lives in the hollow.

this body is an island created by volcanoes

sand texture

a landscape shaped by pressure and eruption. this body—an island emerged from fire, formed by what tried to break it. it’s a map with terrain of survival: fractured ground, molten heart, slow regrowth. carrying both solitude and strength, and the strange beauty left when the dust begins to clear.

eroded, scarred, reshaped by time and force. grief in its weathering, a quiet mourning for what’s been lost or broken. within its fractures lies reverence—an honouring of the destruction that shaped it. this is beauty unearthed, not constructed: raw, exposed, and still becoming.

visceral beauty in its rawest form

black sand texture

a vessel once meant for flame, now quiet with absence. she becomes the hearth: marked by what once burned, holding the memory of heat and ash. the silence of grief, and reverence for what fire leaves behind.

background texture of beach

floating in a fragile world apart in the tension between yearning and isolation: visible yet unreachable, present but displaced. the ache connecting across invisible walls. gesture suspended, touch denied.
the beauty and the quiet resistance of the struggle—still trying.

collect traces

original artworks and limited edition prints, suitable for framing.