The Master and Margarita - Ksenia Voloshkina

Ksenia Voloshkina - On Patriarch's ponds

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Ksenia Voloshkina (°1999) is a graphic designer and illustrator from Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation. After her secondary school in 2017, she started studying at the Institute of Architecture and Design of the Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk

She is skilled in both traditional art forms and digital forms and offers her graphic services under the brand name DMKLL. However, I don't know what these letters stand for.

When, at the Institute of Architecture and Design, she got an assignment is to draw her own comic strip interpretation of a famous work or fairy tale, she didn't have to think long about it. «Since I was very impressed with reading M.A. Bulgakov's ‘Master and Margarita’, I wanted to capture a passage from the first chapter from the Patriarch's Ponds. I changed the dialogs a bit, worked out the character design according to my own perception, and also chose a palette with yellow-black-white colours», she said.

Those colours were not randomly chosen. The yellow is the personification of the madness that started to happen in Moscow. In the novel, Bulgakov often associated the colour yellow with doom and madness, just think of the «disgusting, alarming yellow flowers» that Margarita was carrying when she met the master. The black represents the unknown hidden behind the meaning of life, death and evil, and the white is the colour of life, hope, faith and good things.