Eastern philosophy has always seemed to be a difficult and
unattainable field of knowledge to Western people. By the way, due
to its poetic imagery and overall spirituality, it often became an
object of attraction both for scientific study and for the way of
perceiving the world itself. In her new project "The Last Day of
Summer", Sonya Kobozeva takes as a basis the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, creating her works at the junction of two worldviews - eastern and western.

The perception of beauty in its natural simplicity and authenticity is
the basis of the concept of wabi–sabi. Sonya Kobozeva depicts city
park at the end of August as a synonymous with this philosophy. For
her, the last day of summer is like the last opportunity to slow
down, to see "time", which we do not notice in everyday life. An
island of serene nature in the middle of a noisy urban surroundings
is perceived as a meditative oasis, a place where it is possible to
ground yourself, forgetting for a while about all the worries from the
outside. And this condition can be easily caught at the end of
summer, at the turn of the changing seasons of the year, when
nature begins to prepare for "hibernation", and time can literally be
felt. It is then that the philosophy of wabi-sabi is realized best: the
opportunity to see beauty in the most ordinary and even imperfect
things. And Sonya Kobozeva gives it to us, sharing her feelings of
the "Last Day of Summer».

As in haiku poetry, uncertainty and understatement become key
concepts, so in the artist's works there is an impression of
transience and sketchiness. Little people in the park are doing their
tiny things, deeply immersed in themselves. As always in the works
of Sonya Kobozeva, they are depersonalized, therefore, even being
in pairs or groups, they remain closed within their world, isolated
from external problems, the allegory of which is the figures of
dinosaurs that imperceptibly fit into the surrounding landscape. The
characters either ignore them, pretending that they do not exist, or
they are so used to existing together, turning their park into a kind
of utopia, which, like groundhog day, has frozen forever at the
moment of the last day of summer.