Behind the Scene: Through the Mirror

Fragile Reflections

About

Vasilisa Moruga

Vasilisa Moruga is a fine art photographer based in Redmond, Washington. Working primarily through self-portraiture and staged imagery, she creates psychologically charged visual narratives inspired by memory, symbolism, cultural archetypes, and the quiet poetry of everyday objects.

Her practice also includes botanical still life photography, exploring flowers as fragile sculptural forms and emotional landscapes.

Artist Statement

My work exists at the intersection of self-portraiture, staged photography, and botanical still life. Through constructed imagery, I explore memory, femininity, cultural archetypes, and the fragile boundary between reality and imagination.

Working primarily alone, I create characters, costumes, headpieces, and symbolic environments by hand, transforming ordinary objects into emotional and theatrical narratives. Flowers and botanical forms appear throughout my work as living metaphors - delicate, temporary, and deeply tied to cycles of transformation, beauty, and loss.

Rather than documenting reality, I use photography to translate inner experiences into visual form. Each image becomes a quiet psychological space where memory, ritual, symbolism, and personal mythology intertwine.

Influenced by folklore, painterly light, historical references, and surrealist storytelling, I create images that exist between past and present, tenderness and tension, stillness and performance.

For me, art is not a fixed narrative but an intuitive process of listening, collecting, and transforming fragments of the visible world into something emotionally resonant and timeless.

Visual Narratives

Botanical Works

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Selected archival fine art prints available upon request.
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