Before it’s in Vogue, it’s months of creation. You see the result. Not the ritual.

Written By Anastasia Benko

From countless hours to timeless presence.

Art was never a luxury where I came from.

You see the result. Not the ritual. And there will never be a shortcut: it is always from countless hours to timeless presence.

In an era of carefully composed surfaces, each work of the Sorbet Series unfolds over weeks and months. Over more than seventy hand-poured layers of patience and persistence.

Art was never a luxury where I came from. It was a way of working. A way of holding things together.

Today this way of working has become the foundation of a practice that honors memory, depth, and time. What began as survival slowly turned into devotion. Layer by layer. Color by color. Until craft became a way to rebuild what was once lost.

— A. Xx

Before it’s in Vogue, it’s months of creation. You see the result. Not the ritual.

Anastasia Benko
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