Anna Smetanenko is a multidisciplinary artist, from Ukraine, currently studying Fine Arts in The Netherlands. Everything started at the age of 7. Anna read Ukrainian stories about endless sunflower fields, which inspired to write her own fairy tales. She has been writing prose and poetry since. Prose regarding Maidan events has been published in “Rising for Freedom and Democracy in Ukraine” book by Brine Books Publishing. Fresh poems deal with artist’s newly discovered interest in neuroscience.

Anna works in different mediums: “I like the float between all of them, where every skill is like having enough fingers”. Photography branches out into vision oriented works (staged/ documentary) and playing with the medium itself (photomashes). Layers of editing and attention to detail, bouncing of photography, lead to Illustrations. Concise and back-ground free, they lure the viewer with their intense details. Photographic works of Anna have been published in several international online magazines.

Lives and works in Groningen, The Netherlands.

http://annasmetanenko.com/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to go to Moscow

Interests

• reading
• art history
• neuroscience
• art
• buddhism
• philosphy
• nihilism
• craftsmanship
• wrting

Music, Movies, and Books

Victor Pelevin "Chapaev and Void"
Victor Pelevin "Life of insects"
Sartre "Being and Nothingness'
Nietzsche
Lao Tzu

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

climbed the mountain

Teach, Learn, Share

poetry, art, crafts, interesting conversations

What I Can Share with Hosts

poetry, art, crafts, interesting conversations

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, Ukraine